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In this April 23, 2010 photo, a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site is seen near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County.
March 10, 2021 | 7:58 PM

Chesapeake Energy to pay $5.3 million in settlement with AG

Under the settlement with Pennsylvania’s Attorney General, landowners will get paid up to $700 and can renegotiate their leases.

By Rachel McDevitt
Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, July 10, 2017.
October 4, 2018 | 5:05 PM

House panel to take up gas royalties bill, but not the one advocates hoped for

A group representing Pennsylvania’s mineral owners has been pushing for different legislation that’s been stalled in Harrisburg for years.  

By Marie Cusick
A farm in Wayne County sits on top of the Marcellus Shale formation. Drilling has not begun in the area of the state that drains into the Delaware River because the Delaware River Basin Commission has not allowed it.
June 14, 2018 | 9:00 AM

Delaware basin land owners welcome committee approval of compensation bill

Fracking opponents call bill a 'preposterous' attempt to boost industry at the expense of public health
By Jon Hurdle
April 17, 2018 | 12:08 AM

Five takeaways from StateImpact’s forum on gas royalties

By Marie Cusick
April 3, 2018 | 9:00 AM

While legislation stalls in Pennsylvania, West Virginia acts on natural gas royalties

By Amy Sisk
This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale was underway at a site in Claysville, Pa.
March 22, 2018 | 9:00 PM

Report: Severance tax proposal could cost mineral owners millions

By Marie Cusick
A shale gas drilling rig in Washington, Pa.
March 16, 2018 | 5:27 PM

Listen: Disputes over gas royalties fester throughout oil and gas states

By Amy Sisk
A natural gas drilling site in Susquehanna County.
March 6, 2018 | 2:11 PM

Listen: here’s why some strike it rich in the gas patch and others strike out

By Marie Cusick and Amy Sisk
Jim Barrett stands next to a wellpad on his farm in Bradford County. He says Chesapeake Energy, which drilled four natural gas wells on his land, is cheating him out of royalty money. He is part of a class-action lawsuit against the company, which is separate from a case involving Chesapeake that's being pursued by the state Attorney General.
February 28, 2018 | 6:00 AM

Royalties: Why some strike it rich in the natural gas patch, and others strike out

When natural gas companies approached Charlie Clark and Jim Barrett about the minerals under their farms, the northern Pennsylvania landowners in neighboring counties both decided to let them drill.

By Marie Cusick and Amy Sisk
A natural gas well in a rural field near Canton in Bradford County.
December 21, 2017 | 7:00 PM

Pennsylvania Attorney General’s lawsuit over royalty payments advances

By Marie Cusick
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