The Herd...

Joining together as a group is not really novel. Since animals in the herd banded together for protection, the principle has worked and worked well. Now this age-old principle can work for you. If you own property in Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, Red River Natchitoches, Bienville, Sabine or Webster Parishes or neighboring areas in Texas counties, Shelby, Harrison, Panola, or Marion that are involved in the Haynesville Shale Play - you need to read this!

Haynesville Shale Landowners is a group of landowners who have joined together to negotiate together for the development of their valuable minerals. This means the membership will have greater strength for a fair deal for each member of the group than each member would have standing alone. Learn More about the HSLA, here.

This group effort gives greater bargaining power and divides the cost of having effective, licensed representation over more properties than just one-at-a-time. In addition, the group provides more and better information than you could find and digest on your own. The group was formed by several citizens who wished to share an attorney for negotiations. The effort paid off by recruiting a Lawyer, a Geologist, a Financial Planner and a CPA. Thus several areas of interest for the Landowner are covered by one cooperative group effort.

COMMANDMENTS OF THE HAYNESVILLE SHALE

THOU SHALE NOT:
1. Take advantage of the elderly.
2. Mislead or deceive the misinformed and uninformed.
3. Go it alone.
4. Sign anything without reading every word.
5. Disparage your neighbors for holding out.
6. Act in haste.
7. Remain uninformed.
8. Blame others for your bad decisions.
9. Claim oil companies are thieves because you signed for a lower rate 2 years ago.

CNBC talks more about what's happening in Northwest Louisiana, the Haynesville Shale and demonstrates about how big a cubic foot of natural gas is.

Hillbillies making millions...

While we disagree about being labeled as 'hillbillies', it's good to know Northwest Louisiana is making international headlines.

From the head of Chesapeake:

"We're highly confident. First of all, we're the nation's number one producer of natural gas. We're the largest driller of new natural gas wells and we believe we know more about shale formations than anybody else in the industry for that matter perhaps in the world. And so when we six months ago discovered this field called the Haynesville in northwestern Louisiana, subsequent drilling leads us to believe that this is the fourth largest gas field in the world and probably the largest gas field in the United States by a big number.

Catch a video featuring Aubrey McClendon on CNBC talking about the US reserves and future potential of natural gas and the find of the Haynesville Shale...

In fact, we think in one accumulation, we found enough gas to supply the whole United States with gas for another 10 years. And so, through the American Clean Skies Foundation, we hired a consulting firm to come in and take a look at what the data we're seeing and see if you arrive at the same conclusion.

There will be more studies. There will be government studies. There will be a lot of industry studies that we think will corroborate what this study found."
Aubrey McClendon, CEO, Chesapeake Energy, Corp.

Article in the New York Times, with emphasis on DeSoto Parish, Louisiana...

From KSLA News -

Recently, the HSLA was featured in a KSLA news story about organizations that work with landowners in the Haynesville Shale.