In Texas, some oil companies lease private land from landowners, who then receive a percentage of royalties from the sale of the oil. But as Dave Fehling of KUHF News reports for StateImpact Texas, some Texas landowners say they've been cheated out of payments. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.
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Comments (3)
EyesOfTX
"...some Texas landowners say they've been cheated out of payments."
You know, some Texas landowners also believe the existence of Bigfoot, and some think the Pyramids were built by UFOs, and some probably also think that Josh Fox and Megan Fox are married to one another, but I don't see KUHF and the Texas Tribune placing such unsubstantiated things into teasers for news reports.
Every commercial transaction conducted every day in the United States is subject to dispute and even litigation. The filing of a lawsuit or the public airing of a dispute does not in and of itself render one party right and the other wrong.
These kinds of sensalist teasers seem to have become something of an ongoing feature in the Tribune's information sharing relationship with KUHF. Maybe it's time to re-examine this practice from the Tribune's standpoint - you're better than this.
Leon Drozd
Now, now, EyesOFTX. You should be thanking KUHF and the Tribune. Big city consulting firms charge a lot of money for this kind of information. Better to hear about grousing now than to encounter it in the form of litigation or arbitration. The success of a commercial transaction is finding a win-win between the parties.
Jim Vance
Just another glaring example of how the Texas court system at all levels is the "best that money can buy"...particularly if you happen to be among those with the money that was provided -- all legal and aboveboard, naturally -- to successfully be elected and re-elected.
As the old horse-trading sound bite goes, "Money talks and bull**** walks."