Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
No one wants to drill for oil and gas in South Fayette anymore.
That’s not part of a new settlement that aims to put to bed a years-long conflict between the township and a group of landowners who felt South Fayette was trying to exclude drilling from its borders.
But it’s a loud unsaid.
The low price of natural gas has likely dampened the appetite of Range Resources, the Texas-based shale operator that once leased land from the Kosky family and their business interests, and of the landowners who continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting the township.