Blog: Energy Leases

Halliburton doesn’t want inquiries into its fracking chemicals

Apr 24, 2014

The United States Department of Energy is openly welcoming decisions by oil and gas conglomerate Baker Hughes to reveal all chemicals used during the hydraulic fracking process. The U. S. DoE says that knowing what chemicals and how much of them are used is necessary for understanding the effects they have on the environment and, more importantly, humans. The Department of Energy Assistant Energy Secretary told reporters last Friday that this decision by Baker Hughes...

FirstEnergy dumping waste in Beaver County

Dec 5, 2013

Residents have had it with a coal waste dump that has damaged their properties and will continue to do so over the next few centuries. Fifteen landowners from Beaver County filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday alleging that the subsidiary, FirstEnergy Generation, and it’s mother company, FirstEnergy Corporation, is negligent for land contamination and possible health hazards, among other things. The Beaver County lawsuit is similar to one that was filed in Wheeling, West Virginia...

Chesapeake Energy paying out millions to landowners

Sep 18, 2013

The nation's second leading producer of natural gas, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, has decided to settle a Pennsylvania leaseholders' complaint and pay out $7.5 million to PA residents who claimed they were shorted, sometimes as much as 95%, on their royalty checks. Although deductions are allowed to be made on certain drill sites in PA, the class action lawsuit claimed that Chesapeake Energy took advantage of these deductions, which were disallowed via drill site contracts, in...