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Unfair share: How oil and gas drillers avoid paying royalties
2013-08-13 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pro Publica: Don Feusner ran dairy cattle on his 370-acre slice of northern Pennsylvania until he could no longer turn a profit by farming. Then, at age 60, he sold all but a few Angus and aimed for a comfortable retirement on money from drilling his land for natural gas instead. It seemed promising. Two wells drilled on his lease hit as sweet a spot as the Marcellus shale could offer -- tens of millions of cubic feet of natural gas gushed forth. Last December, he received a check for $8,506 for a month`s...
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