Every now again you need to step back and consider the big picture when it comes to the miracle of fracking and horizontal drilling. Pennsylvania has seen an economic revolution from the Marcellus Shale industry. That revolution is in danger of being snuffed out by Democrats like gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf who, if elected, promises to implement a Marcellus-killing severance tax. And no, this is not wild speculation. If you look at recent history, such a scenario is supported by the evidence. David Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, penned an op-ed piece that ran in the Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday to “set the record straight” on just what the Marcellus industry has meant in PA and what a severance tax would do to the industry in that state should it be implemented…
