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"Forced pooling" legislation for gas industry planned in Pennsylvania
by laura legere (staff writer)
Published: July 11, 2010
Landowners without gas leases could be compelled to allow companies to drill in the Marcellus Shale beneath their land under a procedure outlined in legislation proposed by two members of the state House of Representatives.
The "Conservation Pooling Act," sponsored by state representatives Marc Gergely, D-35, Allegheny County, and Garth Everett, R-84, Lycoming County, which has not yet been introduced, would establish how gas companies form orderly units of land for developing the gas from the shale - a priority issue for the growing Marcellus Shale industry in the state.
According to a draft of the legislation circulated by lawmakers who have been asked to co-sponsor it, the act would create a state office to oversee pooling as well as a procedure for compensating holdout landowners while keeping them from blocking development of the gas from leased properties around them, a concept known as "forced pooling."
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/forced-...lvania-1.885341
by laura legere (staff writer)
Published: July 11, 2010
Landowners without gas leases could be compelled to allow companies to drill in the Marcellus Shale beneath their land under a procedure outlined in legislation proposed by two members of the state House of Representatives.
The "Conservation Pooling Act," sponsored by state representatives Marc Gergely, D-35, Allegheny County, and Garth Everett, R-84, Lycoming County, which has not yet been introduced, would establish how gas companies form orderly units of land for developing the gas from the shale - a priority issue for the growing Marcellus Shale industry in the state.
According to a draft of the legislation circulated by lawmakers who have been asked to co-sponsor it, the act would create a state office to oversee pooling as well as a procedure for compensating holdout landowners while keeping them from blocking development of the gas from leased properties around them, a concept known as "forced pooling."
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/forced-...lvania-1.885341