Murrysville board will continue hearing fracking challenge
The Murrysville Zoning Hearing Board will continue hearing a challenge to the town’s fracking ordinance on Monday night .
The citizen group Murrysville Watch Committee challenged the validity of the ordinance last year, and hearings have been ongoing since late November 2018.
Murrysville council members voted 6-1 in 2017 to approve a fracking ordinance, which they worked on over seven years. Canonsburg drillers Huntley & Huntley soon after requested state permits for a well pad with up to six wells, and access road on 71 acres off Bollinger Road.
Conditional-use applications for that project, the Titan well pad, were the subject of a public hearing at the June 19 Murrysville council meeting. That public hearing will continue in July.
The zoning hearing board’s meeting is set for 7 p.m., June 24 in the Murrysville municipal building at 4100 Sardis Road.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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