In a case of importance to property owners and drillers alike, the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas held that an application submitted by a drilling company requesting the mandatory pooling of property it did not own – here land owned by the City of North Royalton – cannot be approved without evidence that safety or other intangible concerns of affected property owners were considered. Read the Client Alert here.

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