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Mapping Pennsylvania’s New Impact Fee By County

February 9, 2012 | 10:30 AM
By Scott Detrow

This map tracks how much money county gov­ern­ments will receive from the first round of impact fee pay­ments, which is due Sep­tem­ber 1, 2012.

It applies the retroac­tive 2011 fee — $50,000 for hor­i­zon­tal wells and $10,000 for ver­ti­cal oper­a­tions — to every well from 2005 to 2011 listed in the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Protection’s most recent “spud report.”

Comments

  • Dwight­clay­poole

    Dwight Clay­poole Farms
    Thanks to those won­der­ful sen­a­tors. They impose a 1000′ set back fee with out any com­pen­sa­tion
    to the landowner.Now I lost my well and the water co has no min­eral rights . Scar­neti is a joke

  • Robert Steffes

    I applaud Brian Cop­pola and the other local munic­i­pal offi­cials who fought so hard to pro­tect their con­stituents’ rights and well being as PA is being turned into a gas field.  Mr. Cop­pola has been deal­ing with the drillers in his town­ship for 5 years and he knows what he is talk­ing about. As a mem­ber of my community’s Zon­ing Hear­ing Board, I agree with him that this leg­is­la­tion will indeed strip away much of our zon­ing author­ity locally.  The Mar­cel­lus play is a MAJOR heavy indus­trial activ­ity with feeder and trans­mis­sion pipelines, dri­ven by com­pres­sor sta­tions, not just a well here and there.  Shame on the gov­er­nor and the leg­is­la­ture for pass­ing this bill and leav­ing res­i­dents and prop­erty own­ers help­less to con­trol their own communities!

  • Cmon­line

    More money taken from the peo­ple to feed the bureau­cracy and left­ist envi­ron­men­tal groups while the coun­ties get a mere token pay­off.  All this shoved down our throats by a Repub­li­can con­trolled gov­ern­ment.  Shame on them.  Could it be third party time? 

  • Anony­mous

     What is my com­pen­sa­tion for endur­ing a 10 acre inten­sive indus­trial area, con­den­sate tanks that spew ben­zene, com­pres­sors’ and trucks’ diesel exhaust and last but not least a 500,000 gal­lon frack waste impound­ment butting up to my property?

    • Hilo­farm

      Win­ter­ar­rives You ask what your com­pan­sa­tion will be ? Let me tell you what it will be. Jobs for your neigh­bors and friends that may be laid off right now. New tax rev­enue cre­ated by the increase of spend­ing in our state from the employes of these Gas drilling com­pa­nies. This goes on and on. Not to men­tion the incred­i­ble amount of wealth to be gained by our area land own­ers. The incon­ve­nience of the tem­per­ary drilling site and extra truck traf­fic and com­pres­sion sta­tions is min­i­mal to the ben­e­fits to be gained from this gas boom. This Gov­ern­ment is out of con­troll ‚greedy and waste­ful. We the peo­ple will pay for this tax thru higher energy cost you best believe that.

  • http://twitter.com/fracktrack Mar­cel­lus Mapper

    At http://www.fracktrack.org/impact.php we’ve release an appli­ca­tion to help cit­i­zens find out how much esti­mated impact fee rev­enue would be avail­able to their county and municipality.

    Users can select a county and then click on a county map with bars show­ing what each munic­i­pal­ity would receive.

    Local offi­cials can post their actions regard­ing the impact fee and reg­is­tered users can find out which county and munic­i­pal offi­cials have a role in the process and con­tact them directly through our website.

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