Whether local municipalities will be able to determine the location of wells—or other issues relating to horizontal drilling or hydraulic fracturing—will be decided in the courts.
The Marcellus Shale is a black shale formation extending deep underground from Ohio and West Virginia northeast into Pennsylvania—and across New York’s Southern Tier. Although the Marcellus Shale is exposed at the ground surface in some locations in the northern Finger Lakes area, it is as deep as 7,000 feet or more below the ground surface along the Pennsylvania border in the Delaware River valley. Geologists estimate that the entire Marcellus Shale formation contains between 168 trillion to 516 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—a highly significant figure, given that New Yorkers use about 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas a year.1
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