BusinessWeek.com.When an oil or gas well is drilled it withdraws fluids from beneath lands surrounding the well. This gets more complicated when a well is deviated to horizontal below the ground and penetrates beneath many land parcels. Pennsylvania might have a bill this fall that requires groups of landowners to enter into certain extraction / compensation arrangements even if some do not agree. More at

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