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Fees a Marcellus Shale cost of doing business; severance tax remains a bad idea
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsDemocratic candidate for Governor Dan Onorato is looking for something to chip away at Republican Tom Corbett’s lead in the polls. Onorato will accuse Corbett of flip flopping on a no tax pledge over the issue of whether or not fees were included in the... -
PA DEP acts swiftly to protect citizens from potential Marcellus Shale disaster
Posted on August 28, 2010 | No CommentsThe good citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania can all sleep better knowing that their Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has posted the names of companies that did not submit a Marcellus Shale gas well production report by August 15, 2010. Failure to submit... -
Marcellus Shale; Pooling and Property Rights
Posted on August 27, 2010 | No CommentsYou know something is fishy when progressives claim to be taking positions on something out of concern for the property rights of individuals. Why do genuine concern for individual property rights and progressive not go together? Because the progressive agenda requires control of an ever... -
Forget Marcellus Shale; let’s turn Pennsylvania into a wildlife preserve
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsLet’s just be done with it and make the state of Pennsylvania the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) of the east coast and a ward of the federal government. After all why would the good citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania want to see their... -
A Management and Process Look at PEC’s Marcellus Shale Report
Posted on August 2, 2010 | No CommentsThe most enlightened policy and well thought out regulations are not worth a tinker’s damn without sound management and work processes and procedures that are faithfully executed. Reading the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) report “Developing the Marcellus Shale” it occurred to me that there is... -
Environmental justice and the EPA’s “new look” at regulating Marcellus Shale
Posted on July 29, 2010 | No CommentsIf you thought having the EPA’s pent up progressive “regulate them till they bleed” agenda unleashed on Pennsylvania’s infant Marcellus Shale natural gas potential was bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I have not had time to review this entire document yet but the new... -
Will EPA strangle the Marcellus Shale golden goose with red tape?
Posted on July 22, 2010 | No CommentsWhen something smells like two day old fish, it may not be fish but it’s probably not good. The stench coming from the headline “Endangering the Water?” on the front page of the newspaper caused me to suspect something rotten so I held my nose and... -
PennFuture; if that’s the future we need to alter it
Posted on July 19, 2010 | No CommentsThere are plenty of things that irk me about PennFuture’s shameless whining over having been called on the carpet by the Commonwealth Foundation concerning their questionable reporting of lobbying activities on their tax returns as a tax exempt organization. If you haven’t been following this... -
American Energy Renaissance
Posted on July 8, 2010 | No CommentsThe term “energy independence” has a ring to it and is probably something people feel they understand. Maybe the term puts people in mind of the Declaration of Independence; conjures up thoughts of patriotism. Political rhetoric on both ends of the spectrum promote such connotations... -
PA Budget Toads salivate over the Marcellus Shale goose
Posted on July 6, 2010 | No CommentsAs entertaining as it is to watch our exalted elected leaders salivate over the prospect of carving up the Marcellus Shale golden goose, it’s a farce we could probably do without. This year’s production of The Dance of the Pennsylvania State Budget Toads, starring our...