Friday, December 14, 2012

PA Marcellus News Digest 12/14/12

PA Marcellus News Digest
December 14, 2012

Release

PHFA announces 2012 PHARE and Marcellus Shale funding recipients
$7.6 million being distributed to groups in 19 counties to improve housing
Wallaby
Dec 14
HARRISBURG – The Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency
on Thursday approved the recipients of funding for projects to improve the availability
and affordability of housing in the Marcellus Shale region of the state.
Link:
http://wallaby.telicon.com/PA/library/2012/2012121492.PDF

Articles

Exelon will retire oil-fired Schuylkill Generating Station in Grays Ferry
Inquirer
Andrew Maykuth
Dec 14
Exelon Generation plans to retire its 58-year-old Schuylkill Generating Station in Grays Ferry at the end of the year, the latest Eisenhower-era power plant to bow out in response to a changing energy environment.
Link:
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20121214_Exelon_will_retire_oil-fired_Schuylkill_Generating_Station_in_Grays_Ferry.html

Airport authority entering new year with $15,000 surplus in its budget
Sun-Gazette
Matt Hutchinson
Dec 14
The Williamsport Regional Airport Authority will go into 2013 with a $15,000 surplus in its operating budget.
Link:
http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/586859/Airport-authority-entering-new-year-with--15-000-surplus-in-its-budget.html?nav=5011

Marcellus shale impact fee to fund Fayette County projects
Herald Standard
Patty Yauger
Dec 14
A portion of the $1.4 million Marcellus shale impact fee received by Fayette County will be used to defray the cost of an equipment purchase, hire staff and fund an existing retirement fund deficit.
Link:
http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/marcellus-shale-impact-fee-to-fund-fayette-county-projects/article_26a4bd7e-2adf-5e08-b94e-cdfa0b438b06.html

Gas extraction tax needed
Times-News
Kevin Barwin
Letter to the Editor
Dec 13
[...]
We are told that the frackers have paid more than $1 billion in taxes into the state, county and local coffers over the past six years and that fracking has caused an increase in state employment. This is wonderful news! However, our state is the only state not to assess the frackers an extraction tax.
Link:
http://www.goerie.com/article/20121214/OPINION02/312149996/Letters-to-the-editor%3A-National-sales-tax-would-punish-poor

Commonwealth Pipeline opponents draw a crowd in Warwick
The Mercury
Evan Brandt
Dec 14
WARWICK — More than 150 people packed into a township building meeting room Wednesday night to find out how much they don’t know about a pipeline proposed to cut through a stretch of the Hopewell Big Woods and their backyards.
Link:
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20121214/NEWS01/121219685/commonwealth-pipeline-opponents-draw-a-crowd-in-warwick

Yablonsky keynotes Chamber lunch, cites diversity as a regional challenge
New Pittsburgh Courier
Christian Morrow
Dec 12
Hosting more than 300 people at the Omni William Penn Hotel, African American Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Doris Carson Williams thanked the guests for their work and support in partnering with the chamber to forward its mission of increasing opportunities for African-American businesses.
Link:
http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8945:yablonsky-keynotes-chamber-lunch-cites-diversity-as-a-regional-challenge&catid=41:business&Itemid=37

Greene commissioners adopt 2013 budget
Herald-Standard
Steve Barrett
Dec 14
WAYNESBURG — Greene County commissioners voted Thursday to adopt the county’s $25.7 million budget for 2013, a spending plan that will be slightly higher than this year’s budget but will hold the line on taxes.
Link:
http://www.heraldstandard.com/news/local_news/greene-commissioners-adopt-budget/article_6e22ac9d-0da8-5896-9a22-b9cff908a114.html

NEPA housing projects get impact fee revenue
Times-Tribune
Robert Swift
Dec 14
HARRISBURG - More than $2 million for projects to address housing needs in the Marcellus Shale drilling region in Northeast Pennsylvania was approved Thursday by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.
Link:
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-drilling/nepa-housing-projects-get-impact-fee-revenue-1.1416206

Chapin plant response focus of meeting
Wyoming Co. Press Examiner
Robert L. Baker
Dec 12
A fact-finding meeting about the Chapin gas dehydration station on Rt. 309 in Monroe Township is scheduled for 10 a.m., Friday, Dec. 14, in the Wyoming County Emergency Management Agency office, 455 state Rt. 6, Tunkhannock.
Link:
http://wcexaminer.com/?p=32661

Like some in Berks, Chester residents mobilize for fight
All alarmed by gas driller's plan to lay 30-inch pipeline 120 miles through region
Reading Eagle
Stephanie Weaver
Dec 14
Berks County residents concerned about the possibility of a natural-gas pipeline coming through their backyards have found some kindred spirits in Chester County.
Link:
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=435156

This well doesn't belong there, or anywhere
Courier Express
Denny Bonavita
Dec 13
Following Monday's federally-sponsored public hearing in Luthersburg, we are even more uncomfortable with the concept of using injection wells as disposal wells for gas-oil drilling liquids than we have been - and we were fairly uncomfortable even then.
With respect, we disagree with a comment made by state Rep. Matt Gabler, understandably desirous of protecting the residents of his legislative district. "There are better places for a well like this," Gabler was quoted as having said.
Link:
http://www.thecourierexpress.com/courierexpress/courierexpressouropinion/986868-349/this-well-doesnt-belong-there-or-anywhere.html

NEPA housing projects get impact fee revenue
Citizens Voice
Robert Swift
Dec 14
HARRISBURG - More than $2 million for projects to address housing needs in the Marcellus Shale drilling region in Northeastern Pennsylvania was approved Thursday by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.
Link:
http://citizensvoice.com/news/nepa-housing-projects-get-impact-fee-revenue-1.1416077

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