Impact fee payments reach the municipal level
Summary: Much has been written about how the proceeds from the Marcellus Shale impact fee, which has garnered $2.25 billion from inception through 2021, has
Summary: Much has been written about how the proceeds from the Marcellus Shale impact fee, which has garnered $2.25 billion from inception through 2021, has
Summary: Natural gas drilling and production in Pennsylvania’s shale formations have become a booming industry creating large numbers of jobs as well as producing royalties
Summary: The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) recently issued a news release detailing the 2020 distribution of impact fee revenue collected from 2019 activity. While
Summary: Impact fees from drilling in Pennsylvania’s shale formations jumped in 2017 by 21 percent over 2016. The impact fees, authorized by Act 13 of
Summary: Pennsylvania enacted an impact fee on any natural gas well drilled in the state’s shale formations in 2012. Since then it has brought $1.216
Summary: The Governor’s third budget address did not ask for increases in personal income or sales taxes to patch over the State’s budget deficit, but
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) released the impact fee totals for 2015 at $187.7 million—sixteen percent lower than those collected in 2014. In fact
In his first budget address the newly inaugurated Governor carried through with his promise to go for a severance tax on Marcellus Shale gas production.
While stumping for the governorship, the current Governor made a Marcellus Shale severance tax a key campaign promise. And true to his promise, now that
Act 13 of 2012 set an impact fee on drillers for each unconventional well started (spud) into the Marcellus Shale formation within the Commonwealth’s borders.