Landowners’ Mineral Rights Challenge Is Without Merit, Federal Judge Rules

(January 13, 2020, 10:16 AM EST) -- HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Dec. 18 ruled that landowners’ challenges to the mineral rights in a disputed deed were without merit and held that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania rightfully holds subsurface rights to oil and gas available for hydraulic fracturing (Pennsylvania, et al. v. Thomas E. Proctor Heirs Trust, et al., No. 12-1567, M.D. Pa., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217042)....

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