He's still the President and CEO of East Resources, so it's not really correct to say he's out of the business.

Regardless, he's still fine. He's in a legitimate business with no history of chicanery or other shady dealings. He's the perfect NHL owner. There's no reason he'll be disqualified.

He's still the President and CEO of East Resources, so it's not really correct to say he's out of the business.

Regardless, he's still fine. He's in a legitimate business with no history of chicanery or other shady dealings. He's the perfect NHL owner. There's no reason he'll be disqualified.

Bettmen, prick that he is, hates Buffalo

My bad, I saw an article where he sold the company but it said nothing of him retaining the position of president/CEO.

I agree with what most of you are saying. Pegula is really the owner we need, and a "perfect" owner for an NHL team. Could easily be what puts us over the top and finally brings us our first cup, or at least a shot at it fairly soon.

There's no way in hell the NHL disqualifies Pegula because of that. Not a chance.

I was getting a headache. We’d only been there for ten minutes, but the periodic strong whiffs of propane gas were already getting to me. “It was worse two days ago,” Yvonne Shafer explained to me, “the whole outside and inside of the house would smell like that, about every half hour. At its worst, I spent two hours in the basement because it was the only place I could breathe.”

A 2009 EPA study of drinking water in Pavillion, Wyoming documented contamination from hydrofracking in at least 11 household wells. In Dimock, PA in 2008, a water well exploded from methane contamination from nearby hydrofracking and many others have been rendered undrinkable. A massive 6,000-8,000 gallon spill of undiluted fracking fluids on September 17, 2009 in Dimock further threatens the residents of the area.

The findings of scientists at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange show that nearly all of those soluble chemicals are known skin, eye, and sensory organ irritants, and cause respiratory, gastrointestinal, and liver distress. Approximately 75% affect the brain, nervous system, and the cardiovascular system. Nearly half of them affect the kidneys, immune system, cause developmental difficulties, and have known ecological effects. And most importantly, a third of the chemicals are known carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, mutagens, and/or affect the reproductive system.

We visited Yvonne’s house first. It’s a cozy little home tucked onto a hillside, surrounded by forest. Marring the secluded bliss, however, was the infernal drone of a generator nearby, which runs 24/7... We hiked up the steep hill on their property, through gorgeous old moss-carpeted forest, stepping over the many small springs and seeps that ran off of the hillside. We didn’t all make it; the propane fumes were strong and caught us by surprise. One of our group noted a feeling of burning around her mouth and nose and elected to go back to the car. I was getting a headache but we’d driven four and a half hours to see what we could see, so I was determined to get up that hill.

A solitary worker on the site noticed us and came up the road to “see if there was a problem”. The following discourse proved very educational, as he denied that there was any problem with the noise, fumes, or water issues in the surrounding homes. “Would you light a match around here?” Dan Hill, the Cayuga HETF representative asked, thinking of the pipeline monitoring station we’d seen only moments earlier that was clearly leaking propane through a faulty seal. “Oh yeah, it’s perfectly safe.”

Even with re-drilled wells, I still watched one of them fill a bottle of water out of his hose, shake it up and let it sit for a minute, then light the air in the bottle on fire. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection had moved him out of his home when he had first shown them that trick, because they deemed it unsafe.

The water at the neighbor’s house still has 8.5 ppm methane in it; the Pennsylvania DEP says that the maximum allowable is 5 ppm and they’d prefer it to be under 3 ppm. And yet, nothing has been done to further remedy the situation. Running the clothes washer sets off the methane detector at their house.

Jeff Vanderbeek, the guy who owns the Devils, was a VP of Lehman Brothers, a far shadier company than East Resources.

The issue of hydrofracking is a seperate issue altogether. I'm not saying it's not a legit concern. It has nothing to do with Pegula's fitness to be an owner.

Trying to connect the two is patently absurd. Nobody outside NY/PA cares much about it. It's certainly not an issue generating tons of controversy, absolutely not enough that the NHL would give a shit.

If you were worried about the business actions of NHL team owners, you'd have to kick out about 15 of them. Jeff Vanderbeek, the guy who owns the Devils, was a VP of Lehman Brothers, a far shadier company than East Resources.

Like I said in my last post; it's unlikely that the NHL would turn Pegula away for this, but it's not impossible.

There's no way in hell the NHL disqualifies Pegula because of that. Not a chance.

Didn't want to imply that, just saying what's going on outside his bid to own the Sabres

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Pegula filthy stinking rich because he SOLD his company to Royal Dutch Shell?