Who's in The Marcellus Shale Coalition, and What Does It Do?

Background

The Marcellus Shale Coalition is the drilling industry’s top trade group within Pennsylvania.

40 energy companies, including Range Resources, Chesapeake Energy, Cabot Oil and Gas, and Shell Appalachia, are full members of the coalition. More than 100 companies with ancillary ties to the drilling industry are associate members. Companies pay $50,000 for full membership, and $15,000 for associate dues.

According to its website, the MSC “is an organization committed to the responsible development of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale geological formation and the enhancement of the region’s economy that can be realized by this clean-burning energy source. The members of the coalition work with our partners across the region to address issues with regulators, local, county, state and federal government officials and communities about all aspects of producing clean-burning, job-creating natural gas from the Marcellus Shale.”

For all intents and purposes, the coalition is the primary public face of the natural gas drilling industry. Its staffers work to influence drilling-related legislation, stage conferences and educational events on gas extraction, and represent the industry in the press.

Kathryn Klaber serves as president and CEO of the coalition.

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September 20, 2012

Shale Gas Insight: Corbett Praises Gas Drillers And Slams Critics

Governor Corbett kicked off the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s annual Philadelphia conference by thanking the natural gas drilling industry, castigating its opponents, and tying the shale drilling boom to the state’s energy history. Corbett began his Thursday morning speech – the first keynote speech of the two-day Shale Gas Insight Conference – by praising drillers. “Thank [...]

September 18, 2012

Drilling Opponents Target Penn State’s Academic Accreditation

A group of gas drilling opponents based in Northeast Pennsylvania is asking authorities to scrutinize the University’s academic credentials in light of studies issued by their professors. The Responsible Drilling Alliance has written to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, lodging a complaint against Penn State. In 2009, Penn State’s College of Earth and [...]

August 15, 2012

Marcellus Shale Coalition Expands Its Philadelphia Outreach Efforts

The Marcellus Shale Coalition has been focusing a lot of attention on Philadelphia lately. It launched a new website aimed specifically at answering “the greater Philadelphia area’s” questions about natural gas drilling, and has been conducting focus groups in the city. Now, the Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting the group has hired a new person to manage outreach [...]

June 5, 2012

Pennsylvania Lags in Green Energy Ranking

California leads the nation in clean energy according to a new report published by Clean Edge, a market research firm focused on the clean-tech industry. The annual report looks at 70 different factors related to technology, policy and capital investments. Pennsylvania does not even make the top 20, instead it ranks right in the middle [...]

May 2, 2012

Industry Coalition Releases New Drilling Standards

A group of natural gas drillers says they are committed to abiding by a new set of practices aimed at transparency and sustainability. The Appalachian Shale Responsible Producers Group (ASRPG)is a coalition of 11 major shale drillers, including Cabot Oil and Gas, Chevron and Chesapeake Energy. ASRPG says the new practices are designed environmental and health [...]

April 17, 2012

Drillers And Lawmakers Want To Join Impact Fee Lawsuit

Natural gas drillers and state lawmakers are trying to get in on the impact fee legal action. A week after a Commonwealth Court judge issued a limited injunction delaying portions of the new Act 13 law from going into effect, two natural gas drilling-groups and Republican legislative leaders asked to intervene in the suit. The [...]

March 6, 2012

New Website Connects Small Businesses With Shale Boom

A new website aims to connect Pennsylvania’s burgeoning natural gas industry with local small and medium sized businesses. The Marcellus Shale Coalition launched “Marcellus on Main Street,” today along with several economic development groups across the state. Speaking to members of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Marcellus Shale Coalition president Kathryn Klaber said local [...]

February 15, 2012

What’s Next For Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee?

Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko

Here’s our latest radio story on Pennsylvania’s new impact fee: Earlier this week, Governor Tom Corbett signed a bill overhauling the state’s natural gas drilling regulations into law. The measure imposes a $50,000 fee on every well drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale formation. But as StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Scott Detrow reports, the fee is [...]

February 9, 2012

Drilling Group Says Impact Fee “Will Affect Decisions Made Into The Future”

The Marcellus Shale Coalition pushed hard for the local zoning restrictions contained in Pennsylvania’s soon-to-be-signed impact fee. But along with praise for the legislation, the group’s statement includes a warning: “Without question, [the new per-well fee] will further increase costs, in terms of both time and resources, at a time of historically-low natural gas prices, [...]

January 24, 2012

Department of Energy Reduces Marcellus Shale Estimates

The U.S. Department of Energy has revised their estimate of how much natural gas could be extracted from the Marcellus Shale. The projection adds more uncertainty to how long the state’s drilling boom will last. Last summer, the U.S. Geological Survey released an estimation that was 80 percent lower than the Department of Energy’s projection [...]