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Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Lawsuit Over Royalty Payments Advances

A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site in Bradford County, PA.
A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site in Bradford County, PA.

A lawsuit is moving forward by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office alleging natural gas companies didn’t pay royalties to landowners as they’d promised.

Bradford County Common Pleas Court Judge Kenneth Brown denied the preliminary objections raised by the defendants, Chesapeake Energy and Anadarko Petroleum.

The lawsuit, filed in 2015, accuses the companies of violating the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, by promising landowners royalty money they never paid.

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