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Thanks to the shale revolution and a penchant for hydraulicfracturing (fracking), the U.S. Once upon a time, in the not-so-distant past, the United States was the world's largest importer of energy, guzzling down foreign oil and gas like a frat boy at a kegger. But the script has since flipped.
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Garza Energy Trust, holding that the rule of capture bars recovery for damages for subsurface trespass caused by hydraulicfracturing. The Texas Supreme Court this morning issued its long-awaited decision in Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. A concurring opinion and an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part were also filed.
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