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Did Pennsylvania get shortchanged on shale impact fees?
"There are real questions about whether Pennsylvania's fee is enough to pay for the impacts of drilling on local communities," said Sharon Ward, director of Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center.
Did Pennsylvania get shortchanged on shale impact fees?
The natural gas industry extracted more than $6 billion worth of shale gas in Pennsylvania last year. The state's cut — announced this week by the Public Utility Commission — was around $200 million, or 3.3 percent. And according to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, that's a little more than half of what a West Virginia-type drilling tax would have raised. They figure a more aggressive tax could have brought in $387 million for 2011.
“There are real questions about whether Pennsylvania’s fee is enough to pay for the impacts of drilling on local communities,” said Sharon Ward, director of the center, in a statement. “Local communities have short- and long-term issues to address and should not be shortchanged.”
Meanwhile, with Shale Gas Insight coming to Philly, anti-fracking activists are putting on a full-court press. Delaware Riverkeeper has a 30-second spot running on MSNBC, which gets tons of highly produced shale commercials like the increasingly mind-boggling Chevron "We Agree" series year-round, (although Riverkeeper can only afford to run its spot for a week).
And speaking of highly produced, Shale Gas Outrage is stepping things up this year. In addition to the expected protests, there will be an appearance by author/environmentalist Bill McKibben. And things kick off tonight with an art-making party at University of the Arts Hamilton Hall, on Pine between Broad and 15th from 5 p.m. to midnight. Spiral Q and Protecting Our Waters will be working on some eye-catching props and invite the public to help out.
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