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News Regional & State News Governor Corbett discusses how a natural gas impact fee should be used
Friday, 12 August 2011 17:11

Governor Corbett discusses how a natural gas impact fee should be used

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) -- Governor Corbett says if an impact fee does get past the state legislature, he doesn’t want to see the revenue end up in the state’s general budget. But, he’s not sold on the necessity of a strictly local impact fee. In the weeks since his Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission recommended levying an impact fee on natural gas drillers, the governor has said he would support it depending on where the revenue would go. Corbett says he wants any impact fee to benefit an environment-specific fund, that will help cap abandoned shallow gas wells throughout the state. He says the fee has to address as many statewide needs as possible without hurting those regions that are benefiting from Marcellus Shale drilling. "If you go back and read the report one of the things you see is that there are some communities you see that do not want an impact fee, because they’re doing pretty well without the impact fee," he says. "Companies are taking care of those communities. Lot of roads have been built by the companies, already." Corbett says he doesn’t want to put undue tax burden on drillers, because that could mean losing drilling jobs to neighboring states. He made his comments to Radio Pennsylvania’s Ask the Governor program.

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# Julieann Wozniak 2011-08-15 14:18
The revenue should be used to offset the ideologically motivated in cuts to education and programs for low-income people. Does anyone actally care what Mr. Corbett and his cronies think? I know I don't.
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