CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ACTS FOR CONSERVATION OR RETENTION OF NATURAL GAS WITHIN THE STATE

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Abstract

The distribution of our natural resources creating among our several states an economic inter-dependence of varied degrees, and the growing appreciation of the danger of approaching exhaustion in various fields, has very naturally prompted the legislatures of some of the states to enact statutes which have been broadly designated as "conservation acts," though some of them could be described more accurately as "domestic preference acts". Most of these statutes are calculated to prevent waste, arc real conservation measures, and have nearly always been upheld. Ohio Oil Co. v. Indiana, 177 U. S. 190, concerned a statute making it unlawful to leave a gas or oil well uncapped for over two days after it was struck; and Walls v. Midland Carbon Co., 254 U. S. 300, involved a statute prohibiting the use of natural gas for the sole purpose of manufacturing carbon black.

Recommended Citation

CONSTITUTIONALITY OF ACTS FOR CONSERVATION OR RETENTION OF NATURAL GAS WITHIN THE STATE, 22 Mich. L. Rev. 138 (1923).
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