PA Judge to Antis Seeking Drilling Delay: Put Up $5.69M or Shut Up

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Gavel-falling.jpgHere's a story we LOVE bringing you. A Pennsylvania county judge, Senior Judge Brendan J. Vanston (Lycoming County), has just told an anti-driller to put up or shut up. Inflection Energy had been legally permitted to begin drilling a well in Loyalsock Township in Lycoming County. As they so often do, an anti-driller objected, filing an appeal to stop the drilling in an attempt to delay it by (ab)using the courts. The judge said, in essence, "OK, if you want to play this game, you need to put up $5.69 million as a bond--money you will lose if you don't prove your frivolous case." We predict the case will quickly disappear and Inflection will begin drilling...

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