{"id":173,"date":"2010-08-11T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"1.941475"},"modified":"2010-09-02T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:53:32","slug":"salt-springs-group-in-deal-for-nonsurface-gas-lease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenstreetdata.com\/PS\/2010\/08\/11\/salt-springs-group-in-deal-for-nonsurface-gas-lease\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Springs group in deal for nonsurface gas lease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The private nonprofit organization that manages Salt Springs State Park has signed a non-surface disturbance gas lease worth more than $750,000 for 137 acres that the conservation group owns adjacent to the Susquehanna County park.<\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">Friends of Salt Springs Park Inc. sent a letter to 300 members on Friday notifying them of the lease deal with Talisman Energy USA, which was signed late last year.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">The lease allows the company to drill horizontally under the 137-acre parcel from a pad on another property but precludes it from drilling, building roads, laying pipelines or otherwise disturbing the surface of the Friends&#8217; land.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">The gas company will not be allowed to drill on or under the 405-acre Salt Springs State Park, where the surface and mineral rights are owned by the state. It also will not have access to another 300-acre parcel the Friends own adjacent to the park that is under a conservation easement.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">John Miskell, president of Friends of Salt Springs Park&#8217;s board of directors, said the 12-member board voted unanimously to sign the lease after it became clear that the organization had run out of options &#8211; short of selling land, laying off staff and eliminating education programs &#8211; for plugging a budget gap.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">&#8220;The only thing I knew is that if we didn&#8217;t do it, I didn&#8217;t know how we were going to manage the park,&#8221; he said.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">The Friends used $80,000 of the bonus payment to remove peeling lead paint from the Wheaton House at the park and repaint the building. It also plans to use $20,000 to repair the roof and water damage in the dairy barn on the property, according to the letter to members.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">The remaining $650,000 will be used to establish an endowment for the park, and the interest from the endowment will help pay for the park&#8217;s administration, programs and maintenance. The organization will still rely on memberships, fundraisers and donations to operate the park, Miskell said.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">The Friends of Salt Springs Park has managed, maintained and improved the park since 1994, and it is the only private organization that directly manages a Pennsylvania state park.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">The nonprofit bought the 137-acre parcel involved in the gas lease in 2006 for $180,000, half of which was paid for by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"><font size=\"2\">DCNR agreed to the lease terms of the Friends&#8217; deal with Talisman and drafted additional legal language, including a clause that requires the company to restore the surface at well sites on adjacent land used to tap the Friends&#8217; gas, Miskell said.<\/font><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 6pt 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0in\"> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The private nonprofit organization that manages Salt Springs State Park has signed a non-surface disturbance gas lease worth more than $750,000 for 137 acres that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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