The current Pennsylvania Impact Fee on the oil and gas industry is very beneficial to the Commonwealth and to the communities involved in the extraction of natural gas. The money taken from the Impact Fee is dispersed to every county … Read More
News/Updates
Just the facts: Setting the stage to tell your Shale Story
We have entered June and the time for action on a finalized state budget is kicking into high gear. There are several major policy pieces on the table and they are all somewhat linked into a massive budget agreement. We … Read More
Holding the Governor Accountable for Tax Increases
When Governor Wolf outlined his new budget proposal including a severance tax on the energy industry, he was standing in an Elementary School classroom, claiming that all of the money from the proposed tax would go to education. Except the … Read More
UGI Energy Services to Build LNG Plant in Marcellus Shale Region
UGI Energy Services, which is a subsidiary of UGI Corporation, announced in May that they plan to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production plant in northern Pennsylvania that will use gas reserves from the Marcellus Shale. UGI Energy Services … Read More
New Website Alert – Stop New Energy Taxes
In response to Pennsylvania Governor Wolf’s proposed severance tax, a diverse coalition of various Pennsylvania businesses and organization developed a new website called Stop New Energy Taxes that is currently up and running. The website features news, literature, info graphics, testimonials and even a letter to the Governor himself concerning the impacts … Read More
Can You Dig It? Call 811 to Find Out
Spring has finally sprung! With warm weather around the corner, many folks will be gearing up for landscaping, outdoor projects, and home improvement around the house. If you have any spring plans that may involve digging such as building a … Read More
Natural Gas Q&A with Bill deRosiers – Part II
About a month ago I decided to start publishing some of the questions I receive regularly during my outreach to high schools in a natural gas q&a post. The first part (found here) focused on water, everything from sourcing it … Read More
Pennsylvania Severance Tax: Illusion vs. Reality
There’s been heated discussions on both sides of the Pennsylvania Severance Tax proposal ever since its unveiling earlier this year by Governor Tom Wolf. We’ve discussed it before here on Well Said and featured guest posts like this one from Kevin … Read More
PA Workforce Investment Board Announces $150,000 Tech Grant for Lackawanna College School of PNG
This past Friday, Lackawanna College hosted an open house at its School of Petroleum & Natural Gas. In attendance were school administrators and teachers from a number of Northeast Pennsylvania counties, as well as, regional business leaders. The program featured … Read More
Potential Gas Committee Reports Resource Evaluation
The Potential Gas Committee (PGC) released this week the results of its latest biennial assessment of the national natural gas resources, which indicates that the United States possesses a total technically recoverable resource base of 2,515 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) … Read More