- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 21, 2021
Susquehanna County Hits It Big with Shale Impact Fees!
Susquehanna County Natalie DeCarioExternal Affairs Coordinator, Cabot Oil & Gas … … [Editor’s Note: Susquehanna County just received $4,048,393 in shale impact fees, thanks in large part to Cabot Oil & Gas, which is the largest producer of natural gas there.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 27, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – March 27, 2021
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 26, 2021
Wolf Severance Tax: Flattery for the Dumb and Dumber
Gordon TombSenior Fellow, Commonwealth Foundation .. …. … Tom Wolf, yet again, is attempting to institute a severance tax on the natural gas industry in addition to the impact fee they already pay.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 24, 2021
Severance Tax Obsessed Tom Wolf Proposes It Yet Again with More Lies
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: If the third time wasn’t the charm, the seventh time is surely dead on arrival for Tom the Trust-Funder Wolf’s severance tax obsession.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 11, 2021
Democrats Also Oppose Tom Wolf’s Idiotic Severance Tax
Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Four House Democrats from Western Pennsylvania are stating their opposition to Tom Wolf’s seventh attempt to impose a severance tax!]Tom Wolf’s Severance Tax Obsession Threatens PA Economy
Alexander StevensPolicy AnalystInstitute for Energy Research …. … … [Editor’s Note: Tom Wolf is a spoiled trust-funder obsessed with the fact he can’t just dictate a severance tax be imposed on Pennsylvanians at his will.]Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – October 31, 2020
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2020
Marcellus Shale Impact Fee Funds Housing Projects? Yes, Indeed!
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The Marcellus Shale Impact Fee (Pennsylvania’s severance tax) funds many things but few probably realize that includes housing projects.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 18, 2020
Tom Wolf: Friend or Foe of Natural Gas Development?
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Governor Tom Wolf has done some positive things for natural gas but he sure has done a lot to undermine the industry and its potential.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 11, 2020
Impact Fees Generated $200 Million for Pennsylvanians in 2019: Don’t Mess With It!
George StarkDirector, External AffairsCabot Oil & Gas Pennsylvania’s unique form of a severance tax on natural gas, its impact fees program, keeps churning out money for communities across the Commonwealth; almost $1.5 billion to date.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 16, 2020
Severance Tax? Sure, Let’s Kill What’s Left of the Economy!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Tom Wolf is a vindictive guy and his 20-21 budget for Pennsylvania once again includes a proposed severance tax that will kill the remnants of our economy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 15, 2020
COVID Is No Excuse for An Additional Severance Tax, Governor Wolf
Colin Hanna President of Let Freedom Ring USA, Inc. …. …. Colin Hanna speaks out about the danger of a severance tax in response to COVID-19 and says a virus is not an excuse for a job-killing severance tax.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 15, 2020
A Severance Tax on Natural Gas Is No Way to Recover
Jeff Kupfer Adjunct Faculty, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy …. …. Jeff Kupfer explains why a severance tax on a successful but hurting industry is no way for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to recover from a virus shutdown.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 26, 2020
Severance Tax? Don’t Even Think About It, Governor Wolf!
Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. . … Sadly, as Pennsylvania gets back up and running after the virus, the pressure will grow, yet again, for a new severance tax on top of the one we have now.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 22, 2020
Lockdown Leverage: Will Tom Wolf Try to Squeeze Out A Severance Tax?
Bob Tomaine Contributing Writer Gov. Tom Wolf’s lockdown is squeezing Pennsylvania’s economy. Will he now use it to try to squeeze a severance and other taxes out of the Keystone citizenry?School District Study Was An Attempt to Justify A Severance Tax
Ken Cuomo Superintendent, Elk Lake School District.. .… … A school district study from Penn State presents a flawed view of school district finances in Pennsylvania in blatant attempt to justify a severance tax.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 27, 2019
Wolf’s Severance Tax Dead Again Thanks to Extremist Enviros?
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Tom Wolf’s latest severance tax proposal appears to be failing thanks his radical green friends who will not be satisfied with anything less than a ban.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 24, 2019
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – August 24, 2019
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 29, 2019
Pennsylvania Impact Tax Is About the Best Severance Tax Imaginable
Johnny Williams Bradford County Writer Johnny Williams reports on the huge amounts of money Pennsylvania’s impact tax a/k/a impact fee has already generated, notwithstanding Gov.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 6, 2019
Speaker Turzai Says Gov. Wolf’s “Restore PA” Plan More Likely to Destroy PA
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Pennsylvania House Speaker Turzai provides a comprehensive statement on Restore PA, Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to put a severance tax on the natural gas industry.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 30, 2019
State Senators Bartolotta and Stefano Flip the Severance Tax Script
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Pennsylvania State Senators Bartolotta and Stefano have taken on Governor Tom Wolf’s phony “Restore PA” severance tax gambit and turned it upside down.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 24, 2019
Tom Wolf Exposed: Governor Practices to Deceive on Severance Tax
Jim Willis Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) Tom Wolf is phony as politicians come. His disingenuous attempt, yet again, to craft a severance tax by hook or by crook serves to expose his duplicity.Tom Wolf’s Severance Tax Threatens to Destroy, Not Restore, PA
Gina Suydam PresidentWyoming County Chamber of Commerce … … Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf says he wants to “Restore PA” with a severance tax that will only destroy what the Commonwealth has gained from natural gas.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2019
Tom Wolf Wants A Severance Tax to Pay for Philly Buses and Trains
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW … … A report from Pennsylvania’s Auditor General shows why giving severance tax money to Tom Wolf would simply further subsidize Philadelphia buses and trains.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2019
What Was West Virginia’s Governor Thinking? Coal?
Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC West Virginia’s Governor vetoed a strong bipartisan supported bill to plug up nearly 4000 abandoned oil and natural gas wells.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2019
Tom Wolf’s Severance Tax Proposal Is Nothing More Than Double-Dipping
Johnny WilliamsBradford County Writer Johnny Williams points out Tom Wolf still wants a severance tax, on top of Pennsylvania’s impact fee program, as a cash cow to fund his own pet initiatives.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 12, 2019
Are Environmentalists the Solution to Low Marcellus Shale Prices?
Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC Dan Markind suggests environmentalists who’ve gone too far could end up helping remedy the problem of low Marcellus Shale prices due to industry successes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 1, 2019
Pennsylvania governor seeks severance tax – again
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf Thursday proposed a natural gas severance tax – the fifth time in five years the Democrat has proposed such a levy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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