Relying on the state Supreme Court’s recent interpretation of Act 13, a Lycoming County judge has denied an energy company’s bid to construct an oil and gas well pad in the county.
Judge Marc F. Lovecchio ruled late last month in Gorsline v. Board of Supervisors of Fairfield Township that a zoning ordinance prohibited Inflection Energy’s proposed project to build a well pad containing multiple wells. Lovecchio determined the township board, which had approved the project, failed to prove it would not be “detrimental to the public health, safety and welfare of the neighborhood,” which is a requirement under the zoning ordinance.
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