Lawsuit filed against Chesapeake in Marcellus
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The Patriot-News reports that Chesapeake Energy and its affiliate companies have been accused of improperly reducing royalty payments in Bradford County, Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale.
The couple who filed the lawsuit look for it to become a class action lawsuit, which would include more than 2,000 other landowners who have had their royalty payments wrongly reduced. The lawsuit asks for full reimbursement of costs that were deducted before royalties were paid.
The newspaper reports that the couple filing the lawsuit want the judge to issue an injunction, which would ban “willful wrongdoing,” which is what they say Chesapeake is doing.
Via: The Patriot-News > Natural gas driller accused of wrongly reducing royalty payments
Related: Class action lawsuit filed against Chesapeake subsidiary in Columbiana County
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