One of the top goals for drillers during the fall legislative session in Harrisburg is approval of a measure preventing local governments from using zoning ordinances to shut them out, according to an official with a prominent driller in the Marcellus Shale.

Pooling of land — where a landowner with no contract is paid the same lease and royalty rates as adjacent landowners with contracts — is of less importance, the official said.

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