Drillers Answer Impact Fee Questions

Bradford County hosts more than 1,000 spudded wells, and would generate about a quarter of Pennsylvania’s 2012 impact fee revenue — nearly $50 million —  if the county enacts the levy.
And as we’ve noted, Bradford is the only major drilling county where commissioners are actively considering voting against the fee. With that in mind, the Towanda Daily Review sent a questionnaire to the drilling companies active in Bradford County, asking how a $50,000-a-well levy would impact their operations:

The Daily Review asked several gas drilling companies a series of questions to find out how they would be affected if such an impact fee were levied in Bradford and Sullivan counties. The questions were posed to Chesapeake Energy Corp., Talisman Energy USA Inc., Chief Oil & Gas, Southwestern Energy Co., and EOG Resources Inc.. All of the companies, except EOG Resources, supplied written answers to the questions. Printed below are the highlights of their answers:

For the most part, the companies said a fee would not impact their decisions on where to drill, what roads to repave, and how much money they donate to municipalities.

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