by Jane Richey | Apr 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Venango County commissioners will decide whether they will enact an impact fee on deep gas wells within the county’s borders at their April 10 meeting. When Act 13, the bill providing for the impact fee, was signed into law last month by Gov. Tom Corbett, all three...
by Jane Richey | Mar 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
After years of deliberation on the issue, Pennsylvania legislators passed a bill overhauling the state’s natural gas drilling laws on February 8, 2012. The legislation places an impact fee on every well drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale...