Even with natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania steadily declining, the pipeline to the state’s courts is still full of open issues of energy law. The latest question to be settled is whether an industrial shale gas well should be allowed in a township’s residential district because of its similarity to permitted uses.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court granted allocatur June 20 in Gorsline v. Board of Supervisors of Fairfield Township to determine whether a Lycoming County municipality should allow Inflection Energy LLC to set up a drilling operation under a conditional-use permit. The justices will also review whether a gas well should be considered a “public service facility,” and whether prior permits approved by the township should be considered as support for a new permit.
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