The natural gas industry has received lots of attention this year, as the Legislature grapples with regulating Marcellus Shale drilling. Marcellus Shale wells are almost always horizontally-drilled wells, often with several wells to a drill pad, resulting in larger pads and ponds for holding fracking flowback. Bringing drill rigs to the pads, hauling frac water and materials to the well sites, and everything else associated with this energy bonanza has occasionally caused problems for residents of the drilling area.
The DEP proposed legislation to more closely regulate horizontal drilling, and the Senate Judiciary Committee proposed a bill of its own. The House currently is working on a bill, HB 2878. Here is an article from the Charleston Gazette explaining where things stand on the House bill, which may become the workhorse bill.
The only thing that is certain is that things will change a lot before any bill regulating gas drilling is finalized.
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