PA: Pooling on the Table?
Mandatory pooling is back on the table for consideration in Pennsylvania - at least in part. "[T]he Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission has revived a debate over whether to allow areas of Pennsylvania rich with natural gas to be gathered into large land 'pools,' even against property owners' wishes." (From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.) The new proposal appears to have a strange twist, though: "Only drilling companies would be forced to allow pooling, not property owners who haven't signed leases."
Better than nothing?
