Looking at several key provisions of the lease, the Superior Court found that the landowner’s arguments were in conflict with the clear and unambiguous language of the contract. The trial court determined that, “[t]he lease clearly provides that the lessee has the right to use as much [of] the surface as is ‘necessary or convenient’ to lessee to explore for, develop and produce oil and gas.” In addition the lease “provides that lessee, in its efforts to explore for, develop and produce oil and gas from the subject premises and from lands which adjoin the subject premises, may use ‘methods and techniques which are not restricted to current technologies.’” The Superior Court agreed that this language leaves no room for doubt that the lease permitted hydraulic fracturing and water impoundments.