Guest Viewpoint – Solar Guy Knocks Chesapeake Energy

Last week MDN was contacted by Robert Magyar, Managing Director at Navitus Strategies, to offer a guest viewpoint to run on MDN. We occasionally post guest articles and agreed to post Bob's article (below). His article takes a look at Chesapeake Energy and offers the view that although Chesapeake has laid off more than a thousand people and sold off (and continues to sell off) key assets, the company is still financially unhealthy. Bob offers his reasons why (mostly from hedging agreements). He also highlights the recent and ongoing problems Chessy has with royalty payments in Pennsylvania. In our email correspondence Bob says, "we need natural gas" and that he is not anti-drilling by any stretch. However, we would note for the record that his company, Navitus, works on alternative energy projects--primarily solar--and so it seems in his own best interests to knock the shale industry (and one of it's most prominent players) around just a bit. With that as a preface, here is Bob's article on Chessy "continuing to grind down," which first appeared on the freelance article website Examiner.com:

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