Supreme Court Virtual Oral Argument
Wed, May 19
|https://www.protectpt.org/sc2021
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court accepted the appeals 2 WAP 2021 and 3 WAP 2021 regarding the Metis and Gaia well pads in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. Protect PT submitted their appeal to the Supreme Court in 2020.
Time & Location
May 19, 2021, 10:00 AM
https://www.protectpt.org/sc2021
About the Event
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court accepted the appeals 2 WAP 2021 and 3 WAP 2021 regarding the Metis and Gaia well pads in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. Protect PT submitted their appeal to the Supreme Court in 2020. The appeal was accepted on two issues.
Protect PT asserts that the Commonwealth Court’s opinion was in capricious disregard of the evidence standard and creates an issue of such substantial public importance that requires prompt and definitive resolution by the Honorable Supreme Court.
In the July 2020 opinion of Protect PT’s case at the Commonwealth Court, one judge, the Honorable Patricia McCullough acknowledged that “Protect PT presented both layperson and expert testimony. Most significantly, [Dr. Walter Tsou, MD, MPH] based his opinion on peer review literature and an analysis of the specific details of the Gaia Well Pad construction and its capabilities and opined that the Township and its residents would suffer…