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HUNTLEY & HUNTLEY, INC. v. COUNCIL OF OAKMONT

No. 30 WAP 2008.

964 A.2d 855 (2009)

HUNTLEY & HUNTLEY, INC. v. BOROUGH COUNCIL OF the BOROUGH OF OAKMONT and the Borough of Oakmont, J. Bryant Mullen, Michelle Mullen, Mitchell J. Patti, Christine M. Patti, Diane M. Hamilton, Leo P. Bidula and Maureen M. Bidula Appeal of Borough Council of the Borough of Oakmont and the Borough of Oakmont. Huntley & Huntley, Inc. v. Borough Council of the Borough of Oakmont and the Borough of Oakmont, J. Bryant Mullen, Michelle Mullen, Mitchell J. Patti, Christine M. Patti, Diane M. Hamilton, Leo P. Bidula and Maureen Bidula Appeal of J. Bryant Mullen, Michelle Mullen, Mitchell J. Patti, Christine M. Patti, Diane M. Hamilton, Leo P. Bidula And Maureen M. Bidula.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 19, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford B. Levine, Shawn N. Gallagher, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Borough Council of the Borough of Oakmont and the Borough of Oakmont.

Dennis A. Whitaker, Harrisburg, Susan P. Shinkman, Pittsburgh, PA Dept. of Environmental Protection, for Dept. of Environmental Protection, appellant amicus curiae.

Stanley J.A. Laskowski, Caldwell & Kearns, P.C., Harrisburg, for PA State Ass'n of Boroughs, appellant amicus curiae.

Thomas L. Wenger, David Russell Getz, Peter Grayson Howland, Wix, Wenger & Weidner, P.C., Harrisburg, for PA State Ass'n of Tp. Sup'rs, appellant amicus curiae.

Scott MacNair, Pittsburgh, Terry W. Clemons, Doylestown, Clemons Richter Walsh & Reiss, P.C., for Bucks County Ass'n of Tp. Officials, appellant amicus curiae.

Jordan Berson Yeager, Doylestown, Curtin & Heefner, L.L.P., Elizabeth Koniers Brown, Pittsburgh, for Nockamixon Tp., et al, appellant amici curiae.

Patricia L. Dodge, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, L.L.P., Pittsburgh, for Huntley & Huntley, Inc, appellee.

Dwight David Fergurson, Hollinshead, Mendelson, Bresnahan & Nixon, P.C., Pittsburgh, for J. Bryant Mullen, et al.

BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This appeal by allowance requires an examination of the preemptive scope of Pennsylvania's Oil and Gas Act. It also raises the separate question of whether the municipality should have granted a conditional use permit to drill a natural gas well on the residential property in question. This case and its companion, Range Resources-Appalachia v. Salem Township, ___ Pa. ___,

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