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Natural gas royalties “up to 18%”

Saturday, September 6, 2008minerals and mineral rights

According to this article from Binghamton Press, New York state landowners (or more precisely, I guess, the owners of mineral rights on the land) are getting “up to 18%” royalties on natural gas revenues.  This is in addition to an upfront fee for the mineral rights themselves, in one presumably case amounting to “more than $2400/acre.”

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