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Counties With 68 Percent Of Marcellus Wells File To Adopt Drilling Fee
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So far, 24 counties with a total of 3,396 natural gas wells (68.1 percent) have formally filed their intent with the Public Utility Commission to adopt a drilling impact fee under the Act 13 Marcellus Shale Law.
This means 68 percent of the $211.1 million the Act is suppose to raise in revenue in 2012, or about $143.5 million, will be available so far.
Bradford County, with 1,008 wells, is set to make its decision on enacting a drilling fee next Thursday April 12.
The counties include: Allegheny (9 wells), New- Beaver (1 well), Bedford (1 well), Butler (109 wells), Carbon (0 wells), New- Clearfield (136 wells), New- Clinton (85 wells), Columbia (3 wells), Elk (58 wells), Forest (6 wells), Greene (415 wells), New- Juniata (0 wells), Lawrence (2 wells), Lycoming (473 wells), McKean (53 wells), New- Monroe (0 wells), Perry (0 wells), New- Montour (0 wells), New- Potter (Sullivan (41 wells), Susquehanna (462 wells), Tioga- (693 wells), Washington (560 wells) and Westmoreland (191 wells), Wyoming (98 wells) counties.
4,344 of the 4,982 producing Marcellus Shale wells in Pennsylvania are in just 11 counties: Bradford-1,008, Tioga-693, Washington-560, Lycoming- 473, Susquehanna-462, Greene-415, Westmoreland-191, Fayette-185, Clearfield-136, Armstrong-112 and Butler-109.
For 2012, counties have until April 16 to adopt a drilling fee ordinance.
For more information, visit the PUC's Act 13 Drilling Fee and Drilling Fee Public Documents webpages. NewsClips: Enviro Group Looks Beyond Impact Fee Law
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4/9/2012 |
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