In a small but important victory against Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s effort to force the state to join the Regional… Continue reading The post PA Supreme Court Keeps Block in RGGI Carbon Tax in Place, For Now first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...After the shocking news that U.S. Senator Joe Manchin had sold out his state and the entire country by agreeing… Continue reading The post A Closer Look at New Manchin Methane Tax – Part of IRA first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Earlier this year, one of the biggest nutjobs in Congress, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat-RI), introduced an excise tax, which he… Continue reading The post Windfall Profits Tax on Ohio Oil & Gas Discussed by Economists first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...We finally have some good news to share with respect to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s foolish plan to force PA’s… Continue reading The post PA Commonwealth Court Blocks RGGI Carbon Tax Pending Fall Trial first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Just yesterday MDN told you about this year’s distribution of last year’s (2021) impact fee revenue to local municipalities and… Continue reading The post PA IFO Predicts 2022 Impact Tax Will be Highest on Record – $258M first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Last Friday the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) posted detailed information about this year’s distribution of last year’s impact fees… Continue reading The post PA Pays Out $234M in Impact Tax for 2021 – 2nd Highest Ever first appeared on Marcellus Drilling News. This post appeared first on Marcellus Drilling News.
Read More...Whether or not you agree with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s idiotic plan to join something called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon tax that will force PA residents to pay $2.36 billion in higher electric costs over a 10-year period (and shut down coal and gas-fired power plants), there is one thing we
Read More...We’re done with the American Petroleum Institute (API) if they actually do what the Wall Street Journal says they’re about to do: Endorse and support a tax on carbon dioxide–the stuff you breathe out with every breath you take. Of course, API is largely controlled by huge multi-national corporations that don’t give a #[email protected]! about
Read More...On Friday MDN told you that EQT has partnered with a company called Project Canary (used to be Independent Energy Standards Corporation) to use the TrustWell™ Responsible Gas Program to monitor two EQT gas wells to prove to the world (in particular the global warming lunatics) that EQT’s gas is good and green (see EQT
Read More...Invoking the words “coronavirus” and “COVID-19” like a magical talisman, Pennsylvania’s far-left, bumbling governor, Tom Wolf, has for the seventh year in a row issued a budget proposal that won’t pass because it includes a Marcellus-killing severance tax on top of the existing severance tax (called an impact “fee”). Every year the urgent/critical reason changes
Read More...Big Green groups conducted a highly coordinated effort to pack Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) virtual hearings on Gov. Tom Wolf’s $2.36 billion carbon tax scheme. Big Green claims 95% of those blabbering on during the hearings supported the tax, which would kill the gas-fired power generation industry in the state. There’s still time for
Read More...There is another new scam being perpetrated on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector. It’s called “green LNG.” Supposedly pimple-faced millennial investors are demanding the companies they invest in (with some $110 trillion worth of money) clean up their carbon dioxide emissions or the spoiled kids will refuse to invest. Some LNG companies are going
Read More...The Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Ohio tax commissioner correctly charged Tallgrass Energy’s Rockie Express (REX) pipeline $2 million in excise tax (based on $699 million of income), for gas transported from and to (within) Ohio. REX claimed it did not owe the tax because the same law that exempts gas transported out
Read More...In 2012, Pennsylvania State Senator Andy Dinniman, Democrat from Chester County, PA (near Philadelphia) voted against passage of the Act 13 law that created the impact “fee” (actually a tax) on Marcellus Shale drillers in the state. Yet earlier this week Dinniman issued a press release to tout $740,000 in new grants for “green” projects
Read More...click for larger version Each June the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), the agency charged with keeping tabs on impact fee revenue from shale drillers (PA’s version of a severance tax) releases the final numbers of impact fee revenues and disbursements for the prior calendar year. Yesterday was the appointed day for 2018 fee revenue
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