Rehearing En Banc Needed For Rule Of Capture Decision, Fracking Company Says

(April 18, 2018, 1:26 PM EDT) -- HARRISBURG, Pa. — A hydraulic fracturing company on April 16 filed a brief in Pennsylvania Superior Court seeking rehearing en banc because it says a Superior Court panel “misapprehended material facts” when it determined that the rule of capture does not preclude a fracking company from liability for trespass where subsurface fractures, fracturing fluid and proppant cross boundary lines and extend into the subsurface estate of an adjoining property for which the operator does not have a mineral lease (Adam Briggs, et al. v. Southwestern Energy Production Company, No. 1351MDA2017, Pa. Super.)....

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