Hydraulic Fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing, also called "fracking", "frac'ing", and "hydrofracturing", is the process of injecting a watery mixture of sand, lubricants, and special chemicals, at extremely high pressure, into the Marcellus shale rock many thousands of feet deep below the ground surface, for the purpose of creating cracks that allow for the extraction billions of cubic feet of natural gas, a very clean burning, highly valuable energy resource, found in the Marcellus shale region of Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia.

Here is a video from the American Petroleum Institute explaining how horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing work.

Gas companies are extremely interested in using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing on your land to extract the valuable natural gas resource from the Marcellus shale.

Attorney Doug Clark has years of experience helping hundreds of landowners like you in obtaining the best protection for your land. The Clark Law Firm has represented Pennsylvania landowners just like you to obtain tens of millions of dollars in royalty and bonus payments from gas and pipeline companies that were highly resistant to negotiation a fair deal for the landowner - until they learned the landowner was being represented by Attorney Doug Clark.