Taxes & Economy

Santa and the Grinch visit Pennsylvania?s Energy Sector

  • Gordon Tomb
  • December 21, 2018

The last two years brought renewed investment in Pennsylvania’s energy industry, but these shiny gifts remain threatened by grinchy taxes, fees, and regulations. Among the gifts are the…

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Taxes & Economy

Facts Refute Gov. Wolf’s Climate Change Concern

  • Gordon Tomb
  • December 17, 2018

Editor's Note: A version of this blog was also published in the Daily Caller and appeared at NaturalGasNow.org. When Gov. Wolf uses the past…

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Regulation

PA Tax Loophole Funds Frackaphobic Film

  • Elizabeth Stelle, Priya Brannick
  • January 3, 2013

There’s a memorable line in Promised Land, the new Matt Damon movie opening Friday about a gas drilling company buying land rights in a declining farming community. One…

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Taxes & Economy

Energy Essential to Economic Growth

  • March 23, 2012

The World Economic Forum has a released an updated study on energy and economic growth in the US and guess what sector plays a huge role? That’s…

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Energy

Marcellus Shale Impact Fee

  • October 28, 2011

Companies should pay for the cost of government they use.  Many advocates of a new tax simply want more money for Harrisburg politicians to dole out.

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Taxes & Economy

Marcellus Shale Local Impact Fee

  • Elizabeth Stelle
  • August 26, 2011

Good evening. I am Elizabeth Stelle, a Policy Analyst for the Commonwealth Foundation. We are Pennsylvania’s free market think that crafts and promotes free-market policies based on guiding principles like…

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Energy

Taxing Gas will Burden Pennsylvanians

  • Matthew Brouillette
  • August 1, 2011

Despite the manufactured fears of disaster and cheers for a unique tax on drilling, Pennsylvania can balance economic growth with environmental protection without imposing a new tax. The true impacts…

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Taxes & Economy

The Real Victims of a Severance Tax

  • June 7, 2011

Jim VanBlarcom, a busy Bradford County dairy farmer, set a work day aside to come to Harrisburg and tell his story to Gov. Tom Corbett's Marcellus Shale panel. Royalty money…

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Taxes & Economy

Local Residents Tout Benefits of Marcellus Drilling

  • May 18, 2011

While many pro-tax groups are pushing for a natural gas severance fee—or impact fee though no one can quantify impact costs that drillers are not addressing—local residents often have…

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