TWO YEARS AFTER THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT’S DECISION IN BELDEN & BLAKE CORP. V. COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION & NATURAL RESOURCES: THE COMMONWEALTH’S STRUGGLE TO PROTECT STATE LANDS

GINA S. WARREN, ESQ. AND KRISTA M. BARON

The Marcellus Shale is by far the largest natural gas shale play in the United States and the largest known shale deposit in the world. Located beneath a large part of the Appalachian basin, it extends north into upstate New York, south into West Virginia and Virginia, and west into Ohio, and geologists estimate that it may contain as much as 489 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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