Impact fees for payments for natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania will reach a record amount this year, according to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
The annual fee collected for natural gas wells tapping the Marcellus and Utica shales totaled $243 million for 2018, plus $8.9 million in back fees from companies that had withheld payments for several years while courts decided which low-producing “stripper” wells were exempt from the law.
The nearly $252 million is well above the previous record total of $225.7 million for 2013.
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