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Future uncertain for fracking (access required)

Posted: 7:57 pm Thu, September 20, 2012
By Alexander Pyles
Daily Record Business Writer

With the regulatory future of hydraulic fracturing very much in doubt in Maryland, energy companies are backing away from hundreds of ground leases covering more than 120,000 acres in Garrett and Allegany counties that would have allowed them to drill into the Marcellus Shale, a mile-deep storehouse of natural gas.

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