Natural Gas Company Survives Landowner Trespass Challenge

Landowners on Thursday lost their bid to get a natural gas company to pay for gas extracted from a well near their property.

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a lower court decision granting Southwestern Energy Production Co. summary judgment.

• The landowners claimed Southwestern Energy Production Co. injected proppants into their land during the fracking of the well on adjacent property in 2013 that have remained underneath the land
• The property owners’ claims were “doomed from the start because the lease—ratified by their mother during the year the fracking began—authorized the types of activities that Plaintiffs ...