( July 29, 2024, 9:39 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel has affirmed a lower court ruling that granted summary judgment to a hydraulic fracturing operator in a surface use dispute on grounds that the agreement between the parties was “unambiguous and explicitly authorized” the fracking company to install water pipelines on a landowner’s property as part of oil and gas extraction activities....