# Protect PT v. Penn Twp ZHB

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · January 5, 2021

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4649222

## Case

- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** January 5, 2021
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
WESTERN DISTRICT

PROTECT PT, : No. 247 WAL 2020
:
Petitioner :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal
: from the Order of the
v. : Commonwealth Court
:
:
PENN TOWNSHIP ZONING HEARING :
BOARD AND OLYMPUS ENERGY LLC, :
:
Respondents :
PROTECT PT, : No. 248 WAL 2020
:
Petitioner :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal
: from the Order of the
v. : Commonwealth Court
:
:
PENN TOWNSHIP ZONING HEARING :
BOARD AND OLYMPUS ENERGY LLC , :
:
Respondents :

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 5th day of January, 2021, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is

GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issues set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all

remaining issues. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

(1) Whether the Commonwealth Court’s opinion conflicts with the Court’s previous
application of the capricious disregard of evidence standard and creates an
issue of such substantial public importance as to require prompt and definitive
resolution by this Honorable Court?
(2) Whether the Commonwealth Court’s failure to meaningfully evaluate the
cumulative impacts of developing multiple unconventional natural gas wells in
close proximity to residential neighborhoods creating high probability of
adverse, abnormal or detrimental effects on public health, safety and welfare
and significantly altering the character of the community was an abuse of
discretion which creates a question of first impression of such public
importance which requires this Honorable Court’s prompt and definitive
resolution?

[247 WAL 2020 and 248 WAL 2020] - 2

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