A few weeks ago MDN brought you an updated map showing where Utica drilling has (and has not) happening in Ohio (see Ohio Utica & Marcellus Maps – Where Does Drilling Happen?). We heard from a number of MDN subscribers asking for similar maps for Pennsylvania and West Virginia. We struck out for WV, but we do have a map that shows the location for shale wells in PA.
Read More “PA Marcellus Map – Where Does Drilling Happen?”
A couple of developments to share with you about the Mariner East 1 NGL pipeline which has been completely shut down since Jan. 21 when a new sinkhole appeared in Chester County exposing a few feet of the bare pipe (see New Mariner East 1 Sinkhole Appears, PA PUC Shuts Down Pipeline).
Read More “PA PUC Begins Geologic Testing Near ME1 Sinkhole”
MDN previously reported that last Sunday a new sinkhole appeared exposing a tiny section of the Mariner East 1 (ME1) NGL pipeline in Chester County, PA, prompting Sunoco Logistics Partners to close down ME1 in the Greater Philadelphia area (see New Mariner East 1 Sinkhole Appears, PA PUC Shuts Down Pipeline).
Read More “All of Mariner East 1 NGL Pipe Shut Down Indefinitely by PA PUC”
Since 2012, Pennsylvania has collected the equivalent of a severance tax from Marcellus Shale drillers via something called an impact fee. Same concept as a severance tax. You drill a well, gas comes out, you pay a tax. Except with an impact fee you pay whether or not anything comes out of the ground–a more reliable source of tax revenue than a severance tax!
Read More “PA IFO Report Says Record High Impact Tax for 2018 – $247M”
Yesterday the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, Scott Perry, told DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council his program is losing $800,000 a month, which he desperately, desperately hopes will be fixed soon by slapping a 250% hike in permit fees on Marcellus drillers.
Read More “PA DEP Official Says Oil & Gas Program Losing $800K per Month”
On Sunday a new sinkhole appeared in the backyard of a home in West Whiteland Township (Chester County), PA exposing a small portion of Energy Transfer’s Mariner East 1 (ME1) NGL pipeline.
Read More “New Mariner East 1 Sinkhole Appears, PA PUC Shuts Down Pipeline”
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) yesterday upheld an administrative law judge’s December decision against an “emergency” request by pipeline opponents to shut down both Mariner East 1 and 2 by claiming they are unsafe and need to be stopped. Can we FINALLY put this to rest and move on? ME1 and ME2 are both now online. There’s no going back.
Read More “PA PUC Affirms Decision to Reject ME 1&2 Pipe Shutdown Request”
We expect liberal Democrats like the far-left PA Gov. Tom Wolf to keep harping on a Marcellus-killing severance tax on natgas production in PA, even though the state already taxes production via an impact fee (i.e. tax). That’s what lib Dems do! They take money from economic producers and give it away to economic parasites who vote them into office–like teachers’ unions. But we don’t expect Republicans to sponsor such dumb initiatives.
Read More “RINO PA Sen. Tomlinson Introducing 5% Severance Tax Bill”
Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court err in its judgment declaring so-called “stripper wells” can be taxed under the 2012 Act 13 law, slapped with an impact fee assessment, if those wells produce more than 90 thousand cubic feet per day (Mcf/d) of gas in a single month (see PA Supreme Court Rules Strippers Not Exempt from Impact Fee)? We have a different take on the high court’s decision than others.
Read More “Was PA Supreme Court Right to Tax Strippers? PIOGA Pushes Back”
Bureaucracies move about as fast as the glaciers in Antarctica. It doesn’t matter where the bureaucracy is located–federal, local, or in this case, state government.
Read More “PA DEP Comes into 21st Century with e-Permits for Shale Wells”
THE Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya van Rossum, along with a couple of radicals from Lancaster County flying under the name Lancaster Against Pipelines (the Clatterbucks), are hoping they can convince the United States Supreme Court to consider a case that a series of lower courts have dismissed–a case that would shut down the now-operating Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
Read More “Riverkeeper Appeals Atlantic Sunrise Lawsuit to US Supreme Court”
Although Snyder Brothers Inc. valiantly fought a legal battle against the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) over paying impact fees (taxes) on low-producing “stripper wells,” they lost. But it wasn’t just Snyder Bros. withholding impact fees on stripper wells.
Read More “List of 18 PA Drillers Who Owe $6M+ in Impact Fees from Strippers”
In typical lib Dem thinking, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf thinks he can wave his magic Executive Order wand and lower so-called greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide and fugitive methane) to help save Mom Earth.
Read More “PA Gov. Wolf Issuing Exec Order to Lower Greenhouse Gas”
It’s that time of year when the prognosticators haul out the ole crystal ball and make predictions about what’s ahead for the coming year.
Read More “Experts Say Slow Growth Ahead for PA Marcellus in 2019”
The bureaucrats at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) are rubbing their hands together, eagerly anticipating millions of dollars to roll through the door and into the agency’s pockets following a recent PA Supreme Court ruling on strippers (see PA Supreme Court Rules Strippers Not Exempt from Impact Fee).
Read More “PA DEP Eagerly Anticipates Millions of Dollars from Strippers”
If a single Republican (in name only) puts their name to a bill with 25 Democrats, that’s all it takes for fake news media to herald it as a “bipartisan” bill (or bills, in this case).
Read More “Philly Democrat & RINO Team Up to Intro 12 Anti-Pipeline Bills”