The Empire Strikes Back: Shale Industry Minimizes Potential Severance Tax Revenue, But It’s Still More than Impact Fee
Pennsylvania would benefit from switching from its current impact fee to a severance tax. Depending on the estimate, the...
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Giving Away the Golden Egg: Shale Tax Revenue Could Top $1 Billion by 2015-16
Here’s one estimate that Pennsylvania exceeded in 2014—gas production in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region came in ahead of projections...
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Morning Must Reads: A Few Inconvenient Shale Truths
For a long time, we’ve been making two points about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. One, Pennsylvania’s...
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Many Core Drilling Jobs Existed Before Emergence of Hydrofracking
It’s been nearly two weeks since we released a report with the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative finding that drilling...
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Shale Drilling Highly Sensitive to Price, Meaning Job Gains May Not Be Lasting
Natural gas drilling in the six states spanning the Marcellus Shale is highly sensitive to price fluctuations. High prices...
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Six-State Study Finds Industry Supporters Exaggerated Jobs Impact of Shale Drilling
Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs...
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Guest Post: It Wasn’t the Shale, Yinz
By Tim Stuhldreher Originally published at Tim Stuhldreher’s Blog Paul Krugman muses on why deindustrialization left Detroit a basket...
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New Data: Job Growth In Marcellus Shale Slows Again In Last Quarter of 2012
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data Thursday from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for...
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Pennsylvanians Shortchanged by Drilling Fee
Last week, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission reported that natural gas drillers are paying $202 million in local impact...
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