BY STACI WILSON
A natural gas drilling opponent is getting another day in court to take on a drilling company.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Houston, Texas, is seeking a permanent injunction to keep Scroggins from Cabot or its sibsiduary GasSearch Drilling Services properties and leased properties where active operations are taking place. The preliminary injunction in place also prohibits Scroggins from entering onto Cabot’s access roads, well pads, and sets a 100-foot buffer from any well pad.
In a hearing held Oct. 29, Cabot attorneys argued that they believed they had reached a binding settlement in the case in September, following negotiations between attorneys for Scroggins and the gas driller. Scroggins did not sign the document formulated in the settlement discussions.
Cabot argued that the oral agreement was binding in Pennsylvania and that signatures on the agreement were not necessary. In court in October, Scroggins’ attorney Gerald Kinchy said his client had not consented to the settlement agreement.
On Dec. 11, President Judge Kenneth Seamans vacated a Nov. 6 court order to allow for Vera Scroggins to “present testimony and/or documentary evidence” on the issue of whether or not the court should grant Cabot’s motion to enforce an agreement reached between the company and Scroggins’ attorneys.
The judge vacated the Nov. 6 order after considering post-trial motions made by Scroggins and reviewing the court transcript.
The hearing to allow for Scroggins’ testimony has been scheduled for Feb. 25, 2015 at 9 a.m.
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