Marcellus Shale Impacts

If the General Assembly adopts both proposed exemptions, only one-third of total gas production at a typical Marcellus Shale well would be subject to severance tax, and companies would pay tax for only nine years of the 40-year life of the well. This two-

Pennsylvania faces a projected General Fund shortfall of at least $500 million. Gov. Rendell proposed a $29 billion budget for 2010-11 that increases business taxes, imposes new taxes on natural gas and tobacco products, and expanding the sales tax to inc

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"A Need for Post-Impact and Policy Studies: The Case of the "Shetland Experience"

During the Marcellus Shale debate, one of the Republican talking points we heard was that if PA's severance tax was too high, or if our environmental regulations were too strict, natural gas drillers would move across the border to Ohio. The theory was that high taxes and high regulatory costs would lead to less drilling, by driving up the cost of production. This was always a silly argument, since less drilling would mean higher prices for gas, and leading to more sustained interest in drilling.

"Women in Energy Boom Towns"

"Impact Mitigation in Western Energy Boomtowns"

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"Fear of Crime in Rapidly Changing Rural Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis"

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"Welcome Evalsed is an online resource providing guidance on the evaluation of socio-economic development. It promotes exchange of experience and good practice as well as increasing the relevance of evaluation in decision-making. Whilst the resource has a specific focus on evaluation in EU cohesion policy, it is also relevant to the evaluation of other socio-economic development tools. Evalsed is currently under development. In the policy debate, there is an ever increasing focus on the need for evidence on the performance of cohesion policy.  Policy makers need to know "what works?" and "why?".  The experiences of ongoing evaluation for 2007-2013 and the thematic ex post evaluation of the 2000-2006 period also demonstrate the greater potential for evaluations of themes or interventions to deliver credible results. Evalsed has traditionally focused on programme evaluations. Following these recent evaluation experiences and discussions at the Warsaw conference on evaluation methods [http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/conferences/evaluation2009/index_en.htm], Evalsed will be redeveloped. Evalsed consists of two parts: THE GUIDE and three SOURCEBOOKS."

"Criminal Behavior and Rapid Community Growth: Examining the Evidence"

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Shell, which has its North American headquarters in Houston, bought all of the acreage of East Resources Inc. in the Marcellus shale for $4.7 billion, totaling 650,000 contiguous net acres and more than 1 million acres overall in West Virginia and Pennsyl

The Marcellus Shale boom is accomplishing something that all of Governor Rendell's economic development programs cannot: permanent jobs and more state tax revenue without a dime of taxpayer subsidies. Resisting the calls to tax natural gas producers will

This report examines the key effects a California oil severance tax would have and pinpoints the lessons that can be learned from California about the effects of severance taxes more generally. The report establishes the range of potential revenues the ta

In December 2007, Governor Sarah Palin gave Alaskans a nice present. Courtesy Image Courtesy Image She signed legislation boosting Alaska's severance tax. The state would now take 25 percent of taxable income derived from oil and gas production. Previou

The Economic Impacts of the Marcellus Shale From: energy | July 21, 2010 | 63 views Loading... http://EnergyTomorrow.org Timothy J. Considine, Ph.D. of Natural Resource Economics, shares his new study on natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale re