Pennsylvania Shale Meeting Mulls Ways to Spread Marcellus Wealth

摘要

The Shale Gas Insight conference held in Philadelphia this past week was largely a love-in of industry executives and supportive politicians touting the benefits of the Marcellus Shale region. However, former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell — never known to bite his tongue— was extremely critical of the industry's refusal to accept a severance tax. Taxation has perhaps trumped hydraulic fracturing regulations as the issue drawing the most focus from Pennsyl-vanian officials, who are governing a state sitting on natural gas reserves that some at the conference said could "change the world."