Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission issued its final report with recommendations on Pennsylvania’s drilling policies in late July, 2011.
The 137-page document contains 96 recommendations for changes to drilling policies and regulations. It also includes background on Marcellus Shale drilling.
A complete, annotated version of the report is available here.
Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission is recommending an impact fee on drillers, to compensate local government for the strain on services caused by Pennsylvania’s natural gas drilling boom. Legislative reaction to the report’s language has been muted, at best. Many lawmakers say the suggestion doesn’t go far enough. (Read the full report here.) Still, [...]
The Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission’s refusal to release the wording of its proposed recommendations during its July 15 meeting has been well-documented. At the end of the session, Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley tried to ease transparency concerns by offering to release all the draft recommendations, once the final report was public on July 22. The [...]
Drilling down into the Marcellus Shale Commission report, we found several contradictory pieces of advice for Governor Tom Corbett. Take pipelines as an example. In the infrastructure section on page 103, section 9.1.2 encourages the Governor to create a “One-Stop” permitting process for pipelines. Currently, the Department of Environmental Protection has oversight when it comes to [...]
Last week, Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission issued its much-anticipated final report. The 137-page document contains 96 recommendations for changes to drilling policies and regulations, plus a whole lot of background on Marcellus Shale drilling. Susan Phillips and I have read through the report, and highlighted its most interesting sections. Click here to read [...]
137 pages can be a lot to read through, especially when they’re inside a government report, and not a summer beach novel. To guide you through the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission‘s final report, StateImpact Pennsylvania put together a list of the document’s top five most interesting sections. (Read the full report here.) Pooling? What Pooling? [...]
Reactions to Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission report have been flooding the StateImpact inbox all day. Read on for the highlights of comments from the Marcellus Shale Coalition, County Commissioners Association, Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, PennFuture, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors, and Pennsylvania Environmental Council. (Want your group’s [...]
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