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Thursday, June 06, 2013
The Peaceful Amish Are Getting Fracked
Their religion prohibits lawsuits and all of the energy companies know it. The timing felt providential. The couple, who have several young
children, were still paying off a 2006 loan they’d used to buy a small
farm adjoining theirs. Gazing in the direction of his 158 acres, as he
talked with me at his kitchen table in March, Miller said, “We thought,
‘Hey, that’s $1,500 we didn’t have.’” Still, he asked the agent about
rumors of farmers who’d been given much larger signing bonuses in
similar deals. He remembered the agent grinning dismissively as he said
farms in the area were not leasing for more than what was offered.
Miller, 46, considered the Kenoil well on the hill, and the years of
good relations he had enjoyed with the company. “I just trusted him,” he
said. The Millers signed the lease...
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