Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Weighs in on Hydraulic Fracturing and Subsurface Trespass
The Energy Law
MARCH 31, 2020
1] Prior to the Pennsylvania ruling, there were two seminal cases that have addressed the issue and reached conflicting results. The court found that an actionable trespass claim requires an injury and that the only claimed injury in this case—drainage of gas from beneath the plaintiff’s property—was barred by the rule of capture. [3]
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