Chesapeake Conspiracy Revealed
Natural gas giant Chesapeake Energy, led by the now-embattled tycoon Aubrey McClendon, colluded with a competitor to keep land prices down and avoid bidding wars over lucrative energy deposits.
Obama’s Bad Businessmen
The president’s most famous business supporters face financial losses, scandals
A slew of left-wing business moguls are on the skids thanks to poor investment decisions, questionable judgment, and accusations of bribery and cronyism. Nat gas tycoon $1.1B in debt
Chesapeake CEO took loan from own board member
In the wake of a damaging report that Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon had taken out more than $1.1 billion in personal loans over the past three years, new details have emerged showing the energy tycoon borrowed money from a member of his company’s board and failed to disclose it.
Chesapeake Energy’s Spending Spree
Company has 'predilection to outspend, sometimes recklessly'
Chesapeake’s Dirty Energy
Nat gas giant under DOJ investigation
The Justice Department is investigating Chesapeake Energy—the second-largest natural gas producer in the U.S. that spent millions pushing the idea that natural gas is a clean alternative to coal—for possible criminal violations of the Clean Water Act. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday, Chesapeake disclosed that the company is under investigation for three of its well sites in West Virginia.
Clean Energy Gets Dirty
Natural gas billionaire uses green lobby to take out competitors
Chesapeake Energy, one of the biggest natural gas companies in the United States, has funneled millions of dollars to environmental and health groups to attack the coal industry, all under the guise of promoting clean air—and has spent millions more lobbying the Environmental Protection Agency and members of Congress. The second-largest natural gas producer in the U.S., Chesapeake donated $26 million to the Sierra Club and funded ad campaigns by the American Lung Association to steer public favor toward natural gas energy and the controversial hydraulic fracturing process used to obtain it.
