Are Ohio’s oil and gas severance taxes too low?

In light of a new bill that could expand oil and gas drilling in Ohio state parks, many are questioning whether Ohio tax rates need to be increased. The post Are Ohio’s oil and gas severance taxes too low? appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter. This post appeared first on Shale Gas Reporter.

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Severance Tax Redux As Lefties Try to Destroy Industry Again!

Severance Tax Redux As Lefties Try to Destroy Industry Again Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN)   [Editor’s Note: Josh Shapiro owes a debt to the leftists who bought his purist demagoguery and elected him. Now, they are calling in the loan and asking for a severance tax.] Once again, the

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, February 24, 1923!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, February 24, 1923! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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RGGI Hits A Snag But Is It Just A Temporary Reprieve?

RGGI Hits A Snag But Is It Just A Temporary Reprieve? Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. ….  RGGI is Tom Wolf’s middle finger to Pennsylvania’s legislature, natural gas industry and taxpayers, but the Commonwealth Court just said “put your hand down.” Judge David Wojcik of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court (the first appeals court for

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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.] As we reported in January, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Democrat) has, for the seventh year in a row, introduced a Marcellus-killing severance tax proposal

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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!] As we reported two weeks ago, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (Democrat) has, for the seventh year in a row, introduced a Marcellus-killing severance tax proposal as part

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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.] Over the past week, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has once again promoted the idea of levying a severance tax on the natural

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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. As usual, emphasis is added. Anti-Fracking Crusade Running Out of Gas? Dan Markind does an election overview with respect to states where fracking has been an

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Wolf’s Severance Tax Dead Again Thanks to Extremist Enviros?

Jim WillisEditor & 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. Can it be possible that the shale industry and anti-shale environmentalists (those who irrationally espouse the end of using all fossil fuels) can

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State Senators Bartolotta and Stefano Flip the Severance Tax Script

Jim WillisEditor & 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. Last month, MDN told you Pennsylvania State Senators Camera Bartolotta (Washington County) and Pat Stefano (Fayette County) had beaten PA Gov. Tom Wolf at his own

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Tom Wolf’s Severance Tax Threatens to Destroy, Not Restore, PA

Gina SuydamPresidentWyoming 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. Natural gas is revitalizing Wyoming County. As a lifelong resident of Tunkhannock and now in my role representing the county’s business

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Tom Wolf Wants A Severance Tax to Pay for Philly Buses and Trains

Tom ShepstoneNatural 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. Every year Governor Tom Wolf tells his Pennsylvania constituents he needs a severance tax on natural gas. He says he needs it for one thing one

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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. Why? To support coal?  West Virginia Governor Jim Justice made one of the most curious gubernatorial moves in recent years recently, when he vetoed a bill that would have directed

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