A Northumberland County businessman with ties to Pennsylvania’s gas industry will accompany Governor Corbett on an upcoming 10-day trade mission to Brazil and Chile. John Moran Jr. is co-chair of the Team Pennsylvania foundation, which is sponsoring the trip. StateImpact Pennsylvania first reported Moran paid for expensive private flights and a yacht vacation to Rhode [...]
During yesterday’s budget address, Governor Corbett said his administration is “hard at work to bring a major natural gas processing plant to southwestern Pennsylvania.” The natural gas impact fee in front of the House would help Corbett woo Shell, which is deciding whether to build an ethane cracker in Pennsylvania, Ohio or West Virginia. As [...]
Department of Community and Economic Development Secretary Alan Walker, who made news this summer by advocating additional drilling in Pennsylvania’s state forests, talked Marcellus Shale during a visit to Clearfield County. From GantDaily.com: Walker discussed what Pennsylvania has to offer and what his vision for the state entails. Walker touched on the Marcellus Shale play [...]
A new report by researchers at Penn State University and the Pennsylvania College of Technology says natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale created about 23,500 jobs in 2009. The results contradict an earlier study released by Penn State last year that credits Marcellus Shale drilling with creating about 44,000 new jobs in 2009. The [...]
Governor Corbett’s Secretary of Economic and Community Development, Alan Walker, predicts increased drilling in Pennsylvania’s state forests could bring in “close to $60 billion” over the next three decades. “”That allows us to solve just about every economic problem we have that is hanging out there, including un-funded pension liability, infrastructure problems,” he told Capitolwire [...]
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