An energy company can build a gas compressor station on land in Beaver County despite protests from the owners of an adjacent organic farm that the station will adversely affect the public health and welfare, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.
A unanimous three-judge panel held Jan. 7 in Kretschmann Farm v. Township of New Sewickley that the landowners failed to properly present evidence demonstrating the harm that would come from the station and also failed to properly pursue a constitutional challenge to a zoning ordinance regulating oil and gas operations in the township.
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