January 29, 2014
Natural-gas companies often entice private landowners with the promise of royalties on any minerals they extract as a result of drilling the landowners’ property. An investigation by nonprofit news organization ProPublica revealed that oil and gas production doesn’t always trickle down as promised.
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Unfair Share: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying Royalties
In 1982, in a landmark effort to keep people from being fleeced by the oil industry, the federal government passed a law establishing that royalty payments to landowners would be …
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