When we purchased our acreage up near MPC, we got timber and mineral rights thanks to the work of the previous owners who were going to build the ski resort. Not that there would be any gas drilling up on a mountainside.
If there is gas, they will drill wherever it suits them. A business owner I know in PA was forced to allow the leaseholder to drill right between two of his buildings. That's where the geologist told them to drill, so that's where the well went.