PA Supremes go political

Griff · 03-26-2010, 09:10 PM

Breaking News: PA Supreme Court Rules Against Landowner Seeking to Invalidate Lease

Last year, Susquehanna County landowner Herbert Kilmer sued ElexCo Land Services Inc. and Southwestern Energy Production to invalidate his lease. The reason? He said that by deducting drilling costs from his royalty payments, his payments fell below Pennsylvania’s law that a minimum one-eighth share of royalties are guaranteed to the landowner. A Susquehanna County judge ruled against the landowner and in favor of the energy companies. Other people started filing lawsuits, so the energy companies asked the PA Supreme Court to take up the matter. The Supremes did, and today they also ruled in favor of the energy companies:

It appears this was a political decision not a legal decision. PA has budget problems and is in negotiations with gas companies to lease public lands. The landmen were very successful with their con so a lot of land owners got burned.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-26-2010, 09:16 PM

Not getting enough money is the least of their problems, wait until the underground water is polluted and they can't use their well.

richlevy · 04-04-2010, 11:56 AM

It reminds me of the Hollywood saying that 'there is no net'. I wonder if gas companies and movie studios share the same accountants?

03-26-2010, 09:10 PM	#1
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	PA Supremes go political Breaking News: PA Supreme Court Rules Against Landowner Seeking to Invalidate Lease Last year, Susquehanna County landowner Herbert Kilmer sued ElexCo Land Services Inc. and Southwestern Energy Production to invalidate his lease. The reason? He said that by deducting drilling costs from his royalty payments, his payments fell below Pennsylvania’s law that a minimum one-eighth share of royalties are guaranteed to the landowner. A Susquehanna County judge ruled against the landowner and in favor of the energy companies. Other people started filing lawsuits, so the energy companies asked the PA Supreme Court to take up the matter. The Supremes did, and today they also ruled in favor of the energy companies: It appears this was a political decision not a legal decision. PA has budget problems and is in negotiations with gas companies to lease public lands. The landmen were very successful with their con so a lot of land owners got burned. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

03-26-2010, 09:16 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Not getting enough money is the least of their problems, wait until the underground water is polluted and they can't use their well. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

04-04-2010, 11:56 AM	#3
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	It reminds me of the Hollywood saying that 'there is no net'. I wonder if gas companies and movie studios share the same accountants? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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