Pages tagged "Marcellus Shale"
York County Commissioners allocate Marcellus Shale funds to Windsor
Published in the York Daily Record, by Mollie Durkin
April 6, 2014
York County Commissioners last week approved the allocation of Marcellus Shale funds to Windsor Borough.
Gas drilling impact fee revenue up 11 percent this year
Published by State Impact, by Marie Cusick
April 4, 2014
Pennsylvania expects to collect $224.5 million in impact fees levied on natural gas drilling companies this year– an 11 percent increase over the amount collected last year.
Act 13 impact fees on natural gas producers rise in Pennsylvania
Published in Power Source, by Don Hopey
April 4, 2014
Pennsylvania expects to collect impact fees totaling $224.5 million this year for horizontally drilled, unconventional shale gas wells, according to an announcement today by Gov. Tom Corbett’s office.
Corbett: Act 13 impact fees to generate more than $630 million by 2015
Published in the Pittsburgh Business Times, by Justine Coyne
April 4, 2014
By the end of 2014, Act 13 impact fees will generate more than $630 million since the legislation's passage in 2012, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Friday.
County commissioners approve allocating $150,000 to Windsor park
Published in the York Daily Record, by Rick Lee
April 2, 2014
The York County Commissioners approved the allocation of $150,000 of Marcellus Shale funds on Wednesday to improve the Windsor Borough Community Park.
Marcellus shale supply helps lower costs of natural gas in Western Pennsylvania
Published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, by Adam Smeltz
March 31, 2014
Western Pennsylvanians will pay as much as 7 percent less for natural gas this spring than they did a year ago, with robust supply from the Marcellus shale helping to restrain prices, gas utilities reported on Monday.
994 JOBS PROJECTED FOR SCRANTON-WILKES BARRE REGION DUE TO GAS BOOM
HARRISBURG, PA – Coming on the heels of further job growth across Pennsylvania under Governor Tom Corbett and Lt. Governor Jim Cawley’s leadership, a report released by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) projects 994 manufacturing jobs coming to the Scranton-Wilkes Barre region by the year 2020 as a result of the natural gas boom in the Marcellus Shale region. Governor Tom Corbett and Lt. Governor Cawley have has long championed for creating an economic climate to attract energy companies to develop in Pennsylvania due to the direct and indirect jobs that will be created, such as those listed in the USCM report.
926 JOBS PROJECTED FOR PITTSBURGH DUE TO GAS BOOM
HARRISBURG, PA – Coming on the heels of further job growth across Pennsylvania under Governor Tom Corbett and Lt. Governor Jim Cawley’s leadership, a report released by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) projects 926 manufacturing jobs coming to Pittsburgh by the year 2020 as a result of the natural gas boom in the Marcellus Shale region. Governor Corbett and Lt. Governor Cawley have long championed for creating an economic climate to attract energy companies to develop in Pennsylvania due to the direct and indirect jobs that will be created, such as those listed in the USCM report.
511 JOBS PROJECTED FOR CAPITAL REGION DUE TO GAS BOOM
HARRISBURG, PA – Coming on the heels of further job growth across Pennsylvania under Governor Tom Corbett and Lt. Governor Jim Cawley’s leadership, a report released by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) projects 511 manufacturing jobs coming to the capital region by the year 2020 as a result of the natural gas boom in the Marcellus Shale region. Governor Tom Corbett and Lt. Governor Cawley have long championed for creating an economic climate to attract energy companies to develop in Pennsylvania due to the direct and indirect jobs that will be created, such as those listed in the USCM report.
Report: Gas boom could bring 1,000 manufacturing jobs to metro area
Published in the Times-Tribune, by Brendan Gibbons
March 21, 2014
A surge in natural gas production could lead to a modest increase in manufacturing jobs in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metro area, according to a report by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

