Marcellus Shale Watch

The Pa House GOP has endorsed the industry counter to the Governor’s proposed tax;, to wit, that the state lease land and raise the same money, or more, by gas production than it could raise by a severance tax.   The proposal is to lease 130,000 acres of land in each of the next three years out of the about 2.1 million acres of forest under the control of the DCNR.  This position has been advanced by the Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Association and was the subject of an entertaining dialogue between POGA Director Steven Rhoads and Acting Secretary John Hanger on Tuesday night at the POGA conference on environmental issues.

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