{"id":7724,"date":"2012-07-02T15:21:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2012-07-02T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:21:15","slug":"justice-department-is-probing-chesapeake-energy-land-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/07\/02\/justice-department-is-probing-chesapeake-energy-land-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department is Probing Chesapeake Energy Land Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S Department of Justice is examining whether Chesapeake Energy and Encana colluded to avoid bidding against each other in a public land auction in Michigan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/02\/us-chesapeake-land-deals-probe-idUSBRE86117H20120702\">an unnamed source tells Reuters<\/a>.<\/p><p>The Oklahoma City natural gas giant and Ecanana, Canada&#8217;s largest natural gas company, were among the largest bidders for land leases in Michigan&#8217;s Collingwood shale play, the news service\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/jp\/chesapeake-encana-plotted-to-suppress-land-prices\/\">reported last week<\/a>.<\/p><p>The DOJ probe follows a separate antitrust investigation by the Michigan Attorney General and that state&#8217;s Department of Natural Resources, which oversees such auctions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our commitment is to ensure the integrity of the auction process and to receiving fair market value for public land,&#8221; Michigan DNR spokesman Ed Golder tells reporters Diane Bartz and Brian Grow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S Department of Justice is examining whether Chesapeake Energy and Encana colluded to avoid bidding against each other in a public land auction in Michigan, an unnamed source tells Reuters.The Oklahoma City natural gas giant and Ecanana, Canada&#8217;s largest natural gas company, were among the largest bidders for land leases in Michigan&#8217;s Collingwood shale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[360,275],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}