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 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
A coalition of environmental groups issued a scorecard Tuesday rating the voting records of Pa. Senators and Representatives on the issue of Marcellus shale. The Pa. Sierra Club, Conservation Voters of Pa., Clean Water Action and Penn Environment issued the ratings,...
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...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
More than three years into the gas-drilling boom that’s produced thousands of new wells, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Pennsylvania are tussling over regulation of the Marcellus Shale, the vast underground rock formation that holds...
by Jane Richey | Mar 3, 2012 | Free Markets
A partnership of three companies on Thursday proposed building a $1 billion pipeline that would transport fuel from Northern Pennsylvania to markets in Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, as well as Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington. Currently much of the natural...
