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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div>in Buffalo, New York, the billionaires are asking for handouts again.</div><div>
</div><div>The owners of the Buffalo Bills, Terry and Kim Pegula, have struck a deal with New York State officials that promises them $850 million in public funding toward the construction of a new stadium for the NFL team. Although it’s less than the $1 billion some had originally predicted the cost might be, this would be the largest taxpayer contribution ever for an NFL facility — and the estimate is still likely to be below what taxpayers will eventually fund, if the history of similar deals in other cities is any indication. The Pegulas are framing it as a commitment to the shared, communal betterment of our region — rather than the cash grab to further build their absurd fortune that it most certainly is.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Forbes’s estimates for 2022, the Pegulas have a net worth of $5.8 billion USD (up from $4.1 billion in 2016), much of it made in the oil and gas industry. They’re part of an elite group of the ultrawealthy who saw their collective fortunes increase by 40 percent over the last year alone. They bought the Buffalo Bills in 2014, after purchasing the NHL franchise Buffalo Sabres in 2011 and investing heavily in development projects around downtown Buffalo and its waterfront. It seems they’re doing alright financially, especially of late</span>.</div><div>
</div><div>Even so, the Pegulas (and the NFL) have assured us that a new stadium just isn’t possible without public funding, and they have begun to hint that without this support, the Bills might consider finding greener pastures elsewhere and relocating to a new city.</div><div>
</div><div>The Stadium Swindle</div><div>Such a threat has been the key piece of leverage for sports team owners for multiple decades. According to the book<b> Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit </b>by Neil deMause and Joanna Cagan, the threat of departure has been a rallying cry for millionaires and billionaires since the Irsay family snuck the Colts out of Baltimore — literally in the middle of the night — in 1984, relocating the team to Indianapolis and a new, domed stadium. Baltimore then funded its own new football stadium in 1996 (along with a 1992 baseball stadium), stealing the Browns from Cleveland and receiving a new NFL team name, the Ravens, as their reward. Cleveland, in response, also funded new football and baseball stadiums within the next few years.</div><div>
</div><div>Each of these cities has rabid, storied fan bases, and each initially said no to public funding for privately owned sports teams. This pattern has played out over and over again in cities across the country in the decades since.</div><div>
</div><div>Sweetheart tax breaks and amazing rental agreements make incredible profits for the owners. Team values jump by huge amounts in almost every case.</div><div>It looks like this: Wealthy owners, wealthier ownership groups, and even wealthier leagues tell a municipality that they need new digs and can’t afford to build them on their own. Someone expresses hesitancy — maybe the municipality, maybe the residents. Perhaps it’s about construction costs, perhaps it’s about location, perhaps it’s about seating capacity or astronomical ticket prices. Usually, it’s about cost.</div><div>
</div><div>The owners and leagues suggest they may just have to look elsewhere, sometimes subtly and with what seems like sincere regret, sometimes more overtly and without remorse. There’s a great collective wringing of hands on all sides.</div><div>
</div><div>More discussions of costs ensue, with greater urgency, this time accompanied by promises of new jobs, more money trickling into the area through sports and nonsports events, and greater “presence” on the national stage. The owners, league, and by this time many politicians and community members are downright positive that this will be an economic windfall. It turns out, they argue, that spending the money will actually create a positive economic impact.</div><div>
</div><div>Finally, the municipality caves, often under public pressure to do whatever it takes to keep the team in place, and public dollars are used to fund a new stadium. Sweetheart tax breaks, amazing rental agreements, and elevated “presence” make incredible profits for the owners. Team values jump by huge amounts in almost every case.</div><div>
</div><div>And the public usually loses money on the investment. Only in rare cases do the municipalities break even. Worse, the investment in the stadium typically stifles potential investments in other areas, so the net effect on the community is doubly negative — it has given money away it won’t see returned, and it has left itself less able to fund other things that are more important, like schools, infrastructure, and public health.</div><div>
</div><div>Even the business generated by new stadiums in local areas rarely extends far beyond the stadium’s walls — it is usually money that would have otherwise been spent at other local establishments, by people from within the area. Thus, local money that would have stayed local is instead funneled upward to the ultrawealthy teams and leagues. The opportunity for that money to make local improvements and drive positive community impact disappears.</div><div>
</div><div>The City of Good Neighbors</div><div>Buffalo, the second-largest city in New York State, has been engaging in its fair share of struggles for these local improvements lately. In June 2021, India Walton won a shocking upset in the Democratic mayoral primary against long-standing incumbent Byron Brown. Her run made national news and garnered public support from left-leaning heavyweights like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders, although Brown was able to muster enough bipartisan support from local elites and establishment politicians by the time of November’s general election to quash our dreams of a socialist-run Buffalo.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The Working Families Party (WFP), which provided much of the on-the-ground support for Walton’s campaign, has made inroads against the local Democratic Party machine through determined organizing and persistent support of the blue-collar folks who populate the majority of Buffalo’s neighborhood</b>s. Buffalo’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America also provided support to Walton’s campaign and, with the WFP, was instrumental in supporting a successful health care workers’ strike against the local Catholic Health system this past fall.</div><div>
</div><div>Buffalo is an optimistic place — hope springs eternal in towns that have had long, hard fights against economic depression.</div><div>Both organizations have also played lead roles in assisting Starbucks employees’ recent unionizing efforts. In December 2021, a Starbucks franchise in downtown Buffalo was the first location in the nation to unionize successfully, and momentum has been spreading ever since. As of this writing, workers at 147 Starbucks stores nationwide have begun processes for unionization, with many workers citing Buffalo’s example as an inspiration.</div><div>
</div><div>Outside of politics, there is another important, more widely known example of Buffalo-based generosity. The Buffalo Bills’ fan base, known as the “Bills Mafia,” has become infamous for its zealous, raucous support of the team. Fan support is so enthusiastic that members travel the country in immense numbers, routinely showing up en masse at opponents’ stadiums. Bills Mafia has also been known to exude charitable goodness, rallying time and time again to support admirable causes to the tune of millions of dollars. They even inspire the fan bases of other teams to do the same and routinely raise significant money for organizations that need it.</div><div>
</div><div>This enthusiasm speaks to a definite community-oriented bent in Buffalo — a willingness to help each other out and even a palpable, community-wide expectation that it’s just what people ought to do. One of Buffalo’s nicknames is the “City of Good Neighbors,” and it loves all things Bills — and in this case, the NFL and the Pegulas are taking advantage of it.</div><div>
</div><div>A Hefty Price Tag</div><div>In terms of taking care of the community in any responsible economic sense, it’s clear that stadium deals like the one proposed in Buffalo are never good.</div><div>
</div><div>When you roll in the tax breaks and favorable rental agreements that typically excuse owners from having to pay huge amounts of taxes and market-value rent, the amount of lost revenue potential for the municipality is staggering.</div><div>
</div><div>On a more global scale, the same pattern applies to potential host cities for the summer and winter Olympic Games, and similar debates erupt in cities that consider submitting a bid to host the games. According to a ProCon.org review of whether hosting the Olympics is beneficial to the cities that do so, the cons far outweigh the pros, especially for the working-class residents of those places. The main arguments against hosting speak to massive overspending and long-term municipal debt; the creation of significant, disruptive infrastructure with only short-term use and benefit; and the physical displacement and burdening of residents to make way for Olympic needs.</div><div>
</div><div>Local money that would have stayed local is instead funneled upward to the ultrawealthy teams and leagues.</div><div>Meanwhile, the arguments for hosting are far more esoteric and theoretical — short-term tourism, global stature, and national pride — and do little for citizens. More often, Olympics investments make life for the average person less convenient at best, and financially crippling at worst.</div><div>
</div><div>Likewise, the public-funding-for-stadiums saga is not new, so most people who have done even a cursory examination of the issue understand the economic hit such deals entail. Plus, as damning as these agreements are, many Buffalonians will argue that the emotional impact of “keeping the team in town” has value beyond the cold, hard reality of a price tag. And Buffalo is an optimistic place — hope springs eternal in towns that have had long, hard fights against economic depression and all the consequences attached to them.</div><div>
</div><div>A Backroom Deal</div><div>Very little information about actual costs of the proposed stadium has been made available. Studies and subsequent reports that the Pegulas commissioned to investigate potential economic impact and project cost were initially kept from public view and then only released several months ago after Investigative Post, a local investigative reporting outfit, sued to have them made public. Further, Erie County itself, which has come out in support of publicly bankrolling the Pegulas’ request, has made accessing information and records difficult.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Pegulas, as has been their practice, have remained almost completely silent. Behind the scenes, however, they have built a team of local advisers to help push the stadium agenda. Buffalo Business First recently reported that this team includes Tom Wiley, publisher of the region’s only major newspaper, the Buffalo News. This represents a clear conflict of interest, especially since timely, complete information about the stadium and its price tag has been so hard to obtain.</span></div><div>
</div><div>The silence about such big-money infrastructure deals is a common occurrence with stadium deals, and it’s nothing new in Buffalo’s recent real estate development history. Investigative Post has played a key role in exposing similar closed-door dealings before. They gained prominence by reporting on the Buffalo Billion scandal — in which Andrew Cuomo earmarked $1 billion to revitalize Western New York’s economy, in fact generating corruption, fraud, and federal and state investigations — through similar watchdog journalism, representing what’s become a necessary approach for protecting the public’s interest in such matters.</div><div>
</div><div>Sadly, much of what we do know about the proposed stadium is not encouraging. The new stadium will have significantly fewer seats overall than the current one and more seats dedicated to private suites. Private suites are huge drivers of owner revenue — which is why they appear in greater numbers in every single new stadium built. Ticket prices will continue to climb.</div><div>
</div><div>All of it means fewer opportunities to see the Bills play, at higher cost for regular fans, in a stadium that will have little positive economic impact and will very likely cost us more than it produces. Meanwhile, the Pegulas’ fortune will continue to grow. Sports fans, especially those in cities with struggling economies, deserve better than to have public money thrown at drummed-up infrastructure projects that will almost exclusively benefit a team’s billionaire owners.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula...After working for a time for </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Oil" title="Getty Oil" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Getty Oil</a> and Felmont Oil Co., Pegula founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Resources" title="East Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">East Resources</a>, a natural gas drilling company, with $7,500 from family and friends.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="line-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2022)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> It profited heavily upon discovery of deep layers of natural gas in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcellus_Formation" title="Marcellus Formation" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Marcellus Formation</a> and development of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing" title="Hydraulic fracturing" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">hydraulic fracturing</a> ("fracking") recovery process.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[22]</a></sup> Pegula eventually sold the Pennsylvania, New York, and Rocky Mountain assets of the company to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Dutch Shell" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Royal Dutch Shell</a> for approximately $4.7 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-Tom_Precious.Buffalo_News_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-Tom_Precious.Buffalo_News-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[23]</a></sup> He sold the Ohio and West Virginia assets of the company to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Energy_Partners,LP" title="American Energy Partners, LP" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">American Energy Partners, LP</a> for $1.75 billion in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[24]</a></sup> Pegula also owns Greater Rocky Mountain Regional Oil & Gas in Colorado and Wyoming, and JKLM Energy in Pennsylvania.<sup id="cite_ref-Tom_Precious.Buffalo_News_23-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-Tom_Precious.Buffalo_News-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wealthiest_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-wealthiest-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[25]</a></sup></font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Real_estate">Real estate</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Pegula&action=edit§ion=10&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Real estate" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, he won a bid for the development rights to the Webster Block on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,New_York" title="Buffalo, New York" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Buffalo</a>'s waterfront.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[26]</a></sup> The $170 million <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">hockey</a>-themed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LECOM_Harborcenter" title="LECOM Harborcenter" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">LECOM Harborcenter</a> building, which is anchored by the two rinks, a large parking garage, retail, restaurants and a hotel, mostly opened in November 2014 with the rinks, restaurants and parking garage fully completed and opened in August 2015 with the completion and opening of the hotel and retail. Pegula is also the operator of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyBank_Center" title="KeyBank Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">KeyBank Center</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Cross_Arena" title="Blue Cross Arena" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Blue Cross Arena</a>. In 2017, Pegula purchased 79 Perry Street, near KeyBank Center and teamed up with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labatt_USA" class="mw-redirect" title="Labatt USA" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Labatt USA</a> to redevelop the building into a mixed use facility including a small test brewery called the "Labatt Brew House" and restaurant called "The Draft Room" as well as Labatt's U.S. headquarters, Pegula Sports and Entertainment's headquarters, and residential space.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_investments">Other investments</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Pegula&action=edit§ion=11&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Other investments" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pegula also owns a share of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_River_Entertainment" title="Black River Entertainment" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Black River Entertainment</a>, an independent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" title="Country music" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">country music</a> label. The label features such acts as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsea_Ballerini" title="Kelsea Ballerini" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Kelsea Ballerini</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie_Pickler" title="Kellie Pickler" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Kellie Pickler</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Morgan" title="Craig Morgan" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Craig Morgan</a> as well as the related Black River Publishing and Sound Stage Studio all under the Black River label based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Nashville, Tennessee</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also under the Pegula umbrella is <i>Impact Sports Performance</i>, two high performance athletic training facilities which are based in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boca_Raton,Florida" title="Boca Raton, Florida" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Boca Raton, Florida</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LECOM_Harborcenter" title="LECOM Harborcenter" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">LECOM Harborcenter</a> in Buffalo. Pegula owned <i>716 Food and Sport</i>, a two floor sports themed restaurant which serves as the main business tenant of LECOM Harborcenter until he sold it to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tier_Brewing_Company" title="Southern Tier Brewing Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Southern Tier Brewing Company</a> in 2021.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Through a partnership with Southern Tier Brewing Company, Pegula launched a "One Buffalo" branded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft_beer" class="mw-redirect" title="Craft beer" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">craft beer</a> that sells at all Pegula-owned properties and elsewhere in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[27]</a></sup> The One Buffalo brand has also been extended to a flavor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%27s_Ice_Cream" title="Perry's Ice Cream" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Perry's Ice Cream</a> (which already licensed Bills and Sabres themed flavors prior to Pegula's purchases of the teams) and premium cupcakes, both formulated by Pegula's wife, a pronounced fan of desserts.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[28]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Wealth">Wealth</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terry_Pegula&action=edit§ion=12&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Wealth" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Bloomberg, Pegula had a net worth over $7 billion as of July 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pegula#cite_note-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[29]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</span></font></h2><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/</font></a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Pegula back fracking – and violating regulations</div><div>By Jim Heaney</div><div>
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</div><div>COUDERSPORT – Terry Pegula cashed in when he sold the bulk of his hydrofracking business in 2010 for $4.7 billion. He used a chunk of the change to buy Buffalo’s two major league teams, and made it clear when he purchased the Sabres that he was in it for the sports, not the money.</div><div>
</div><div>“If I want to make some money, I’ll go drill another well,” he quipped at a press conference.</div><div>
</div><div>Pegula is, in fact, drilling other wells.</div><div>
</div><div><b>He started another fracking company – JKLM Energy</b>, drawing on the first letters of his children’s names – and has been drilling the past three years around Coudersport, Pa., once known as the home of John Regas and his now-bankrupt Adelphia Cable.</div><div>
</div><div>While widely regarded as a benevolent figure in Buffalo – or, Pegulaville, as some have dubbed the city – his fracking company is held in lower regard in some quarters in Coudersport. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">His fracking wells have punctured the quiet, pristine countryside and been cited for more violations of state regulations per active well than any operator in the state in recent years, according to a report released last spring.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>“The company has had repeated problems properly constructing and operating wells and was cited for polluting water, including groundwater contamination,” according to PennEnvironment, a watchdog organization critical of the fracking industry.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Public records show the state Department of Environmental Protection has cited JKLM Energy for 62 regulatory violations found during 20 inspections since 2015, assessing $508,317 in fines in the process. Violations include the improper design and construction of wells, use of unapproved chemicals and contamination of water supplies.</span></div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">JKLM’s regulatory history is consistent with the middling track record established by East Resource Management, the company Pegula built into one of Pennsylvania’s larger fracking companies before he sold it eight years ago. The head of one fracking watchdog group said East Resource Management’s record under Pegula was “mediocre at best.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>JKLM Energy officials refused to comment for this story. Scott Blauvelt, a senior company executive, and David Callihan, the firm’s publicist, failed to respond to numerous phone calls or emails. An attorney who represents the company declined to comment. A spokesman for Pegula Sports and Entertainment in Buffalo did not respond to an interview request with Pegula.</div><div>
</div><div>Despite the JKLM’s regulatory woes, Pegula’s company has its share of supporters in Coudersport.</div><div>
</div><div>They note that JKLM and its subcontractors are major employers in the region and that fracking provides local governments with well over $500,000 a year in impact fees. The company has also made charitable donations to some 15 community organizations, including schools, libraries and the volunteer fire department.</div><div>
</div><div>Susan Kefover, a Potter County commissioner, termed JKLM Energy an “excellent company.”</div><div>
</div><div>“I’m glad they’re here,” added Brian Ruane, a member of the Coudersport Borough Council. “They have provided jobs, they’ve provided some industry.”</div><div>
</div><div>Ruane added, however, that fracking needs to be done responsibly, especially in an area like Potter County, whose economy is reliant in part of tourism and recreation. He and others are concerned, including <b>Melissa Troutman,</b> a local resident and executive director of Public Herald, a nonprofit investigative reporting center that covers the fracking industry.</div><div>
</div><div>“We have some of the most pristine water quality in the state and there are a lot of people who don’t want to see it threatened or put to risk,” Troutman said.</div><div>
</div><div>A major investor in Buffalo</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pegula got into the fracking business in 1983 with a $7,500 loan from friends and family. His sale of the company in 2010 to Royal Dutch Shell netted him about $3 billion as majority owner. He subsequently sold company assets in Ohio and West Virginia in 2014 for $1.75 billion to American Energy Partners.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He has spent a fair amount of his fortune on sports ventures. Pegula first gave his alma mater, Penn State University, $88 million to build a hockey rink and start a Division I program.<b> He then spent $189 million to acquire the Sabres in 2011 and later dropped $172 million, assisted by $57 million in taxpayer subsidies, to build the hockey-themed HarborCenter adjacent to the Sabres home rink.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Pegula outbid Donald Trump </b>to buy the Buffalo Bills for $1.4 billion in 2014, prompting a huge sigh of relief from a community that had lived in fear of the team relocating upon the death of longtime owner Ralph C. Wilson.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Heaney discusses story on Capitol Pressroom with Susan Arbetter</div><div>Audio Player</div><div>
</div><div>Pegula, 67, and his wife Kim, live in Boca Raton, Fla. The couple also operate Pegula Sports and Entertainment in Buffalo, as well as several other professional lacrosse and minor league hockey teams.</div><div>
</div><div>“He’s probably the single largest private sector investor we’ve had in this community in decades,” said Dottie Gallagher-Cohen, president of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, the area’s leading business organization. “I think we’re fortunate to have someone that committed to the region.”</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pegula has a net worth of $4.3 billion, according to Forbes magazine, and has an extensive history of political giving and other activity, as documented by LittleSis.</span></div><div>
</div><div>His spending hasn’t been limited to Buffalo; of late he’s also made substantial investments in getting<b> JKLM Energy </b>off the ground in his native Pennsylvania.</div><div>
</div><div>Fracking can damage the environment</div><div>
</div><div>Natural gas is considered a relatively clean fossil fuel and bridge source of energy until renewables such as wind and solar power are produced on a mass scale. But extracting the gas can be environmentally messy.</div><div>
</div><div>The gas resides in shale rock deep underground and is extracted through a process commonly referred to as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. To free the gas, crews drill a vertical, then horizontal shaft that can be up to a mile deep and another mile long. The shale rock is then blasted with a cocktail of water, sand and chemicals. Gas is released from the rock and pumped to the surface, as is much of the wastewater, which is retained and either treated or injected underground.</div><div>
</div><div>The fracking process can result in serious environmental problems that include the contamination of underground water, air pollution caused by drilling operations and difficulties containing or cleaning the sludge water used in the drilling.</div><div>
</div><div>Heaney’s original reporting on Pegula from The Buffalo News in 2011]</div><div>
</div><div>Fracking can also raise havoc with residents living near drilling sites. Troutman, the journalist, lives about a mile from a JKLM drilling site near Coudersport and said fracking is disruptive.</div><div>
</div><div>“You can hear, it’s almost like a high-pitched vibration sound, and you can actually feel a vibration inside the house while you’re in bed and that, coupled with the truck traffic all night long, makes it very hard to sleep,” she said.</div><div>
</div><div><b>The fracking industry is heavily regulated in Pennsylvania, although many activists complain that the state Department of Environmental Protection is a lax enforcement agency.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> PennEnvironment, the nonprofit watchdog group generally critical of fracking, said in its report last year that regulators conduct fewer inspections than mandated by state law and frequently decline to issue violations when companies volunteer to correct problems.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Nevertheless, fracking operators are frequently cited for violations, including companies owned by Pegula.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Mediocre compliance record</div><div>
</div><div>A review of studies and public records for a story done by this reporter in 2010 when working for The Buffalo News showed East Resource Management had a middling record of complying with environmental regulations. One study by the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association covering 2008 through August 2010 found the <b>company ranked seventh worst among 45 companies, with 4.1 violations per well, compared to an industry average of 0.65.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“The compliance history of the company when it was in his [Pegula’s] hands was mediocre at best,” Jan Jarrett, then president of PennFuture, an environmental protection advocacy organization based in Harrisburg, told The News in 2011.</div><div>
</div><div>A sister company, East Resources Inc., had a better compliance record, and the combined records of the two Pegula companies worked out to a slightly better than average rate of violations, according to The News analysis.</div><div>
</div><div><b>JKLM Energy, based in suburban Pittsburgh, has also been frequently cited by state inspectors since it began drilling operations in Potter County in 2015.</b></div><div>
</div><div>While a relatively small operation, with just 48 active wells, the company appears to have ambitious plans, as evidenced by the 120,000 acres it has leased. That’s more than three times the landmass of the City of Buffalo.</div><div>
</div><div>Companies with larger operations have been cited for more violations by the Department of Environmental Protection than JKLM. But PennEnvironment, in the report issued a year ago, calculated that<b> JKLM had the most violations per active well,</b> according to an analysis of data from 2008 to September 2016.</div><div>
</div><div>JKLM averaged 0.97 violations per active well, according to the report. The second worst operator had 0.45 violations.</div><div>
</div><div><b>“One violation per well on average means a consistent, ongoing problem,” said Adam Garber, a co-author of the study and deputy director of PennEnvironment.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>“It shows they have a serious problem.”</b></div><div>
</div><div>An Investigative Post review of state records found inspectors cited JKLM for 62 violations during 20 inspections conducted from June 2015 to April of this year.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The most serious episode occurred in September 2015, when state records show JKLM crews injected unapproved chemicals underground in an effort to recover a drill bit they had lost while drilling at its North Hollow well pad.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The drinking wells of six nearby homes were contaminated and the incident prompted authorities to temporarily shut down public water supplies that served<b> Coudersport </b>and its community hospital, state records show.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>The state fined the company $472,317. Wells at the location were plugged and JKLM was given until this July to complete remediation of the site.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“This was a serious incident that may have been prevented if JKLM had used better judgement at the time,” John Ryder, the state’s director of oil and gas operations, said when the fines were announced.</div><div>
</div><div><b>In separate inspections, the state fined JKLM $36,000 for violations at different drilling locations cited in January and March 2017. </b>Among the violations: failure to notify regulators of an accident, such as a spill involving drilling fluids. In total, JKLM has been cited at least four times for failing to report accidents, including spills of fracking fluids, according to inspection reports.</div><div>
</div><div>Native American marshals investigating</div><div>
</div><div>State regulators aren’t the only ones keeping an eye on the company. Law enforcement agents of the Iroquois Confederacy told Investigative Post they have been monitoring JKLM’s activities since December.</div><div>
</div><div>“We’re in the woods, we’re in the rivers,” said Nicholas Snow, chief federal marshal.</div><div>
</div><div>Snow said his team has observed activity by JKLM or its subcontractors that he believes constitutes violations of both state regulations and treaty obligations. The marshals are continuing their investigation and Snow said the Iroquois will consider taking legal action in federal or Native American courts if necessary.</div><div>
</div><div>Snow had this message for Pegula:</div><div>
</div><div>“If you continue your very irresponsible behavior with these very dangerous chemicals and threaten the future generations of not only our people, but your own people, we will be waiting for you.”</div><div>
</div><div>Correction: The original version of this story included an error that was the result of our misinterpretation of documents obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The story incorrectly reported that Pennsylvania authorities cited JKLM Energy for violations during all 20 inspections it has conducted since 2015. While the company was cited for violations during 20 inspections and fined $508,317, the state actually conducted more than 20 inspections. We have thus far been unable to determine the precise number of relevant inspections.</div><div>
</div><div>Jim Heaney</div><div>Bio and story archive Blog: Outrages & Insights JHeaney@investigativepost.org</div><div>@JimHeaney</div><div>
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https://www.google.com/search?ei=VtxXX67jN-SwtgWYw7TQAg&q=peula+oil+polluter+buffalo+bills+east+resources+frack+macellus&oq=peula+oil+polluter+buffalo+bills+east+resources+frack+macellus&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzoECAAQRzoFCCEQqwI6BwghEAoQoAFKBggKEgIxNVCACljdLWC-MWgAcAF4AIABvgaIAZ4okgELMi03LjYuMS4wLjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiu5vSuptrrAhVkmK0KHZghDSoQ4dUDCA0&uact=5#" id="am-b6" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwjt-5-EqNrrAhUPQq0KHbVuAnMQ7B0wBnoECAcQBA" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-top: 1px; user-select: none; width: 13px; cursor: pointer;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(112, 117, 122) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -3px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></font><ol class="action-menu-panel" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwjt-5-EqNrrAhUPQq0KHbVuAnMQqR8wBnoECAcQBQ" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 12px; visibility: hidden; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="action-menu-item" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; cursor: pointer; user-select: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rh8UtOgCtJsJ:https://niagarafallsreporter.com/senecas-ramp-opposition-pegula-fracking-proposal/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:Rh8UtOgCtJsJ:https://niagarafallsreporter.com/senecas-ramp-opposition-pegula-fracking-proposal/%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjt-5-EqNrrAhUPQq0KHbVuAnMQIDAGegQIBxAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></font></font></font></li></ol></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.58; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rh8UtOgCtJsJ:https://niagarafallsreporter.com/senecas-ramp-opposition-pegula-fracking-proposal/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:Rh8UtOgCtJsJ:https://niagarafallsreporter.com/senecas-ramp-opposition-pegula-fracking-proposal/%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjt-5-EqNrrAhUPQq0KHbVuAnMQIDAGegQIBxAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.58; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.58;">Feb 24, 2018 - </span>Not something you heard very much about up here in Bills and Sabres ... Prior to JKLM, Pegula owned Pennsylvania-based <span style="font-weight: bold;">oil</span> and gas company <span style="font-weight: bold;">East Resources</span>, ... Buffalo sports franchises (see “Billionaire Pegula to Own <span style="font-weight: bold;">Buffalo Bills</span>? ... <span style="font-weight: bold;">East Resources</span> had an exceedingly poor safety and environmental ...</font></span></a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rh8UtOgCtJsJ:https://niagarafallsreporter.com/senecas-ramp-opposition-pegula-fracking-proposal/+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:Rh8UtOgCtJsJ:https://niagarafallsreporter.com/senecas-ramp-opposition-pegula-fracking-proposal/%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjt-5-EqNrrAhUPQq0KHbVuAnMQIDAGegQIBxAG" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"></font></a></div><div><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.58; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.58; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="line-height: 1.58;">Jul 23, 2020 - </span>Terry Pegula is a billionaire who owns both the Buffalo Sabres (NHL hockey team) and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Buffalo Bills</span> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">NFL</span> football team). Pegula is the ... saved the Bills! Pegula is once again in the hunt to purchase <span style="font-weight: bold;">oil</span> and gas assets. Hey ...</font></span></a></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VcTq9huhPYcJ:https://marcellusdrilling.com/2020/07/buffalo-bills-owner-terry-pegula-on-the-hunt-to-buy-natgas-assets/+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:VcTq9huhPYcJ:https://marcellusdrilling.com/2020/07/buffalo-bills-owner-terry-pegula-on-the-hunt-to-buy-natgas-assets/%2B%26cd%3D14%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwizxKDUo9rrAhXFl60KHXeMAbkQIDANegQICBAI" style="text-decoration-line: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></a></font></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>