SENECA RESOURCES CORPORATION v. HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, ELK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA et al

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Case Number:

1:15-cv-00060

Court:

Pennsylvania Western

Nature of Suit:

Environmental Matters

Judge:

Susan Paradise Baxter

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  1. August 15, 2016

    Seneca Frack Waste Deal Fails To Protect Town, Court Told

    Opponents of a recent deal between Seneca Resources Corp. and a Pennsylvania town, effectively invalidating the town's ordinance preventing the company from storing fracking waste in an underground well, told a Pennsylvania federal court Monday it should let them intervene to protect their rights to clean water.

  2. May 27, 2016

    Seneca Says Fed. Law Preempts Pa. Town's Waste Well Rule

    Seneca Resources Corp. urged a federal judge Friday not to chuck its suit seeking to strike down a Pennsylvania township's ordinance blocking its fracking disposal wells, saying federal law preempts the locality's rule.

  3. March 29, 2016

    Seneca Escapes Dismissal Bid In Waste Well Disposal Suit

    An oil and gas exploration company can continue its suit aimed at blocking a Pennsylvania township's ordinance barring it from storing hydraulic fracturing waste in an underground well after a federal judge found it had sufficient standing to fight the ordinance.

  4. February 19, 2015

    Seneca Accuses Pa. Town Of Unlawfully Blocking Waste Well

    Natural gas company Seneca Resources Corp. filed suit Wednesday against a Pennsylvania town that it accuses of circumventing a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling by passing an ordinance that would prevent the company from storing fracking waste in an underground well.