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Industry would enjoy wide-spread and active support if this issue was resolved by the their own free will. Boggles the mind they would alienate thier supporters and erode political support in this way. It seems to me it would have been cheaper to be fair than line their path with litigation and legislative fights.
Post production costs should not be shouldered by the royalty owners as we have no say in method of transport or final market point of sale!
As a mineral rights owner in PA, this legislation can greatly effect my rights.

I own land in Boyers, PA. That has a leasing agreement. Please protect my guarantee

The gas company is deducting 34% from my 12.5% royalties which they agreed to pay me in my lease signed 7 years ago. The only deductions listed in my lease include pro rata share of any severance or excise tax imposed by any governmental body. The gas company is deducting transportation, gathering, and processing costs. To me this is just plain theft because they can get away with it. I feel this bill should be passed and the gas company should be made to pay retro active deductions made on previous royalty payments.

Help the Farmers and small Landowners

Cheasepeake is one of the worst offending companys in our area!

Please pass HB1684 and protect the royalty owners rights to receive the full amount that is their due.Also please ask the Pa. State Attorney General to investigate price gouging by the pipeline companies transporting the gas and liquids from our wells.

This legislation is a minimum protection for those who would sign a lease offered by unscrupulous business people in the gas industry.
Rep. Everett, Major, Pickett and Baker. thank you for sponsoring HB1684 to ensure that landowners are treated fairly. Everyone should contact their Reps. and tell them you want this bill supported and what it will mean to your family

My family owns 50% of all gas, oil, coal, and limestone on a 122.41 acre parcel of land in Washington Township (deed book 554, page 333) of Butler County.

Production costs should not be deducted from the landowners 12.5% royalty. The law intended the landowner to get a 12.5% minimum royalty.

THIS SHOULD BE A NO-BRAINER. IF OIL AND GAS OWNERS ARE MAKING MILLIONS OFF AN ACRE, THAT THE LANDOWNER SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST THIS MUCH PROTECTION. THERE SHOULD ALSO BE A VERIFICATION OF WELL HEAD READINGS.

Some gas companies take these deductions and do not report any deductions on the IRS 1099 making the royalty owner have to back out all the deductions taken throughout the year from the gross proceeds listed on the 1099. Any deductions from gross royalty need to be listed on the 1099 or alternatively a cumulative annual statement sent to the royalty owner, which statement showing the gross royalty for the year and all deductions.

A true 12 1/2 percent royalty with no deductions should have been considered an "implied covenant" by the courts. If the Oil & Gas Companies want to apply deductions to the landowners share of the royalty, then their royalty should be 33 1/3 percent...

It's time to stop these modern-day corporate bandits.

The passage of any new bill clarifying a minimum 18.5% "royalty" payment, based on an "arm's length sale" of all gaseous flow "at the point of taking" will be a good step forward; that is: until the Oil and Gas companies find a new way to circumvent that law.

I am outraged with Cheasapeake. They give the whole industry a bad name and most of all give those against gas drilling an issue to throw in our faces.

Minimum 12.5% means minimum 12.5%!!! Why all the pilfering of our royalties with all the exotic philandering? Just another way to screw the owners!! Lets see if the representatives have enough balls to pass this. No more catering to the gas industry! The only thing happening is posturing and no action. For once do something for Joe public!!!

Gas companies shouldn't attempt to cheat owners of mineral and gas rights.

Dear Sir, Please protect our local landowners. Pass HB 1684. Thank You, Vincent Kulbitsky

We shouldn't have to plead to be dealt with fairly by the energy firms. A minimum of 1/8 royalty is fair...but not if the energy firms are allowed to pass on their costs of doing business to landowners in the form of deductions.

It is only the right thing to do to stop the thievery. The gas companies need our gas underground. We do not need them as nice as the money would be.

12.5% is the current law, please help enforce it.

Leased with Chesapeake on two (2) Bradford County, Pa. properties.

Landowners deserve a guaranteed minimum one-eighth royalty for oil, natural gas or gas. Pre or post production costs should not be deducted. That is a business expense for Gas Company and the work being done to harvest the oil or gas, not the person who owns the mineral rights.

PASS HB1684 FIX THE WRONG!

Instead of 12.5% it should be moved up to 15% or 20%.

Please help protect landowners land/property rights.

I totally agree with all your points!!

Tired of politicians putting money in their back pockets from the gas companies instead of representing the people who elected them!!!

I have a 16 percent lease and some months I net 8 percent

Lawmakers need to get all over Chesapeake Energy!!! They are the worst offenders!!!

Ridiculous the way landowners are being taken advantage of by the gas companies, we have owned property in litchfield twp. In Bradford county since 1972, and are so disappointed how the gas companies are getting away with stealing the profits rights out from our feet on our own property

Graduate of Grove City [PA] College---ENGINEERING...I worked a LOT in Penn since then.

If the signed and recorded lease provides for a royalty greater than the 12.5% min then that royalty should be honored by law as well .

We have been told by the oil and gas companies for years that we are guaranteed 1/8 State minimums in our produced royalties. Now with fine print our lease holders want to have their hand in the till the entire way down the pipeline. We the landowners own the resources and deserve to be fairly compensated. The revenues realized by land owners will be poured back into our communities nearly immediately through numerous forms of spending. Protect the land owner - it's the right thing to do. Bob Bevington

Make laws that support the land owner instead of big business. Close the loop holes that allow business not to act in good faith. My family has been in litigation for a long time! Our situation is a company's puts a hole in the ground and calls it a producing well!

Make it retroactive to at least 1982 .....

Chesapeake is screwing us

Lets make sure that the Landowners in Pa. get their Royalties as promised. Shale gas should benefit ALL of Pa, not just the Oil companies.

The Duncan Family has been charged for transportation costs and costs attributed to the flowing of the gas through the pipeline which is called "Wheelage."
Mr. Craig Miller, OH
Please pass HB 1684

Everyone that I have spoken with who signed leases are getting ripped off by loop holes found in their leases. All signers used lawyers but they are no match for the company lawyers who have been doing this for years. They always find loop holes for max. deductions. We need legislation to protect us.
THIS BILL SHOULD BE PASSED

My family has owned and been paying property taxes on over 1500 acres in Beccaria Township Clearfield County for over 50 yrs. We have property taxes due at the end of the month as well 
Both Republicans and Democrats should support this bill and support the landowners in their districts whom they represent.

Proper compensation for OUR resources...it is the law...

IS 50% ROYALTY DEDUCTIONS ON A "GUARANTEED 15% ROYALTY A FAIR DEAL WHEN I HAVE A MARKET ENHANCEMENT CLAUSE STATING THEY CANT DO THAT ECXEPT TO ADD VALUE TO THE GAS PRICE WE RECEIVE????

The "CLEAR INTENT" of contracts signed was to provide, at the very least, the minimum amount indicated. None of the wiggle words used....such as; "Royalty not defined" or otherwise escape tactics make our representatives look any smarter and they do not change the CLEAR INTENT!"

Land owners should be treated fairly and equally. The spread between bonus payments per acre and percentages on royalties should be fair from one owner to another. Leases should be stander and easy to read. With no little hidden clauses to confuse owners. What's wrong with a little fairness between partners
The old leases signed with O&G are already at 12.5% royalty and the older leases contain no language to provide for any deductions. Chesapeake is deducting about 23% of the royalty payment for "gathering" and "transportation" fees, thus reducing royalty paid to 8 or 9%. The landowners need protection to avoid lengthy legal court cases or arbitration which is financially detrimental to the landowners.

Lets level the playing field between big corporations and the landowners who have been maintaining and paying property taxes on their land -- often for generations --- fair play for all is the right thing to do.

Fair is Fair PA Landowner, Arizona Resident. I Pay taxes on PA State Income I Pay Property taxes on PA farm properties

It is time to act on this now

Landowners were guaranteed a very small percentage, while the O&G companies were given a large percentage to cover their cost of extraction, but now they expect the landowners to help them with THEIR COST, not what the original law ever intended.

It's only right that royalty owners should get a minimum amount of royalties. The mineral rights owner is in business with the gas companies to allow his gas to be extracted and brought to market. He should at least get a minimum share of that gases' worth.

I urge you to do the right thing and protect landowners from predatory actions. I'll be watching for your vote. Thank you.

Don't let those who own land in Pennsylvania and vote for our elected officials get superseded by corporations who's sole interest is monetary and could care less about the citizens of our great state.

I am writing you to request your support of a clean HB 1684. As you know gas/oil is important to the future of the Commonwealth and its citizens, especially Beaver County. This vast resource should not be wasted, nor exploited, with strong consideration on its future impact to the multiple generations it will touch in the Commonwealth. 
Land owner in Lycoming county, where I will be moving to and voting, in the near future.

The law should be clear that royalty owners should be guaranteed 12and 1/2 percent royalty with no deductions subtracted from that amount by any oil/ gas companies
As our President rails for "Fairness" almost on a daily basis, some continuity and fairness in the gas royalty business would be nice. Any other industry that did this would be under" theft by deception" charges.
By allowing the O&G companies to charge variable charges to property owners, potential exists for property owners to not only be cheated out of the accepted intent to 1/8 minimum royalty but, in some cases be charged for the taking of minerals from land owners. This in essence makes land owners unfairly subsidize the O&G industry just by owning land and leasing to O&G companies. Let supply and demand, free market principles set O&G prices. Let the consumer pay the true costs of product. Return the intent of the 1/8 minimum royalty protection to PA landowners.

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