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Comment deadline fast approaching for DEP Chapter 78 rulemaking

Meghan Keely2015-05-12T13:38:00-04:00May 12th, 2015|

Please submit your comments by next Tuesday, May 19 On April 4, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) published a Final Draft Rule for revisions to its Chapter 78, Subchapter C regulations governing oil and gas surface operations. This is a major rulemaking that has been in the [...]

Member involvement needed as DEP moves forward with Chapter 78 revisions

Meghan Keely2015-04-16T10:14:13-04:00April 16th, 2015|

The Pennsylvania Department has formally released the second, final version of proposed revisions to its Chapter 78 regulations governing oil and gas surface operations. This is a major rulemaking that has been in the works for several years and will have significant impacts on conventional and unconventional operators alike. PIOGA [...]

DEP expands comment opportunities on revised Chapter 78 rulemaking

Meghan Keely2015-04-07T13:28:29-04:00April 7th, 2015|

The following is from an April 6 DEP news release: The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is providing more opportunity for the public to comment on revisions to the Environmental Protection Performance Standards at Oil and Gas Well Sites (Chapter 78 and 78a). DEP is extending the current public [...]

New DEP well transfer and status change procedures

Meghan Keely2015-04-01T10:14:28-04:00April 1st, 2015|

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has developed new instructions for handling oil and gas well transfers and status and ownership changes. DEP is asking operators that as they update their well inventories that they be aware of these requirements when they submit information back to the appropriate DEP district [...]

Wolf’s severance tax would set a minimum value on gas produced

Meghan Keely2015-03-18T08:12:23-04:00March 18th, 2015|

Gov. Wolf's proposed severance tax on Marcellus Shale natural-gas production contains a unique feature that sets a minimum taxable level, guaranteeing that the state would capture its share no matter how low the gas price sank. The severance tax, dubbed the Pennsylvania Education Reinvestment Act, would set a minimum value [...]

Say no to a severance tax

Meghan Keely2015-03-13T15:23:53-04:00March 13th, 2015|

As part of his state budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, Governor Wolf is asking the General Assembly to approve a plan to impose a severance tax on natural gas production of 5 percents plus 4.7 cents per Mcf. Not only would this tax come at a time when [...]

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