Pennsylvania Supreme Court Addresses Resource Extraction vs Conservation

Former ASLO from Pennsylvania, Brenda Barrett reports on the findings of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court related to the protection of parks and conservation areas from mineral and oil extraction.  A good read for those of you facing similar issues..

As Pennsylvania confronts the next massive wave of resource extraction – natural gas drilling, its citizens now have a primer on the lessons from their past owing to a recent decision from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the constitutionality of Act 13, legislation from 2012 that sought to accommodate natural gas drilling. Learn more about what the court had to say about this controversial law.