Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Pennsylvania Judge Orders Records Opened in Fracking Case

Bloomberg: A Pennsylvania judge, handing a victory to local media and health groups, ordered documents unsealed in a settlement between gas-drillers and homeowners who accused the companies of contaminating their water. Common Pleas Court Judge Debbie O'Dell-Seneca said in a ruling today that the natural-gas drillers failed to overcome the presumption that the records should be open unless the companies, including Fort Worth, Texas-based Range Resources Corp. (RRC), showed they'd suffer harm to trade secrets...

URL: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-03-20/pennsylvania-judge-orders-records-opened-in-fracking-case

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