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 <title><![CDATA[Appalachian Shale Recommended Practices Group Issues Best Practices]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 12:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>MAY 1, 2012 &amp;ndash; The Appalachian Shale Recommended Practices Group (ASRPG), a
consortium of 11 of the Appalachian Basin&amp;rsquo;s largest natural gas and oil producers, today announced the creation...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[A Flaming Buy? Natural Gas Won't Stay Low Forever]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>There are two kinds of investors: those who run away from a fire and those who run toward it.&amp;nbsp; To invest in natural-gas stocks, you had better be...Read More</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[This week's newsletter containing Act 13 updates, court action and new legislation available on Marcellus Minutes.]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Judge keeps gas industry, Republicans out of Marcellus lawsuit]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 ... Pittsburgh Post-Gazette HARRISBURG -- A Commonwealth Court judge has denied a request by the gas-drilling industry and top Republican legislators to intervene in a...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[In Chesco, former DEP secretary touts gas drilling]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The Times Herald
 Hanger estimated there are about 150 private water wells in Pennsylvania that have a problem with gas in their water. &amp;ldquo;This is a real issue, but it needs to be put into...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Downtown catching eyes of energy firms]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 California-based Chevron established operations in the region in February 2011 after paying $4.3 billion to acquire Moon natural gas producer Atlas Energy, which was active...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Shale law Act 13 means new money, more regulations]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 Those living within the Marcellus Shale region and beyond will be able to access more information about what's going on at drilling sites. The changes come after years of...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Natural Gas Impact Fee Passed in Bradford County]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>WETM-TV
 Towanda, Pa. - The Bradford County Commissioners passed the natural gas impact fee at the county courthouse in Towanda Thursday morning. The fee is imposed on natural gas companies drilling...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Judge halts law on shale oversight]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>&amp;#65279;Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
 A judge on Wednesday ordered a temporary halt to a portion of Pennsylvania's new Marcellus shale law that limits the power of municipalities to regulate the booming...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Milne Introduces Bill to Implement Real-Time Safety Monitoring of Natural Gas Wells and Pipelines]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:56:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>MALVERN &amp;ndash; On Monday, April 9, at 10 a.m., Rep.  Duane Milne (R-Chester) will hold a press event at the headquarters of  Rajant Technologies, located in the Borough of Malvern. The purpose is ...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Average household natural gas bill to drop 14-22 percent]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
 Rolling from a mild winter into spring, the Pittsburgh region's three biggest natural gas utilities continued to slash the pass-through prices they charge customers for the...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[There Can Be More Nat Gas, With US Support: Anadarko CEO]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>CNBC.com
 ... the several billions of dollars it will take to build highway infrastructure to encourage consumers to use natural gas &amp;mdash;if the US government says it "won't stand in the way of...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[MSC, drillers seek to intervene in Act 13 suit]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 As the Associated Press reported on Thursday, the Marcellus Shale Coalition, the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association, and several drilling companies have filed a...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Municipalities get expedited hearing in suit against state shale law]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The seven municipalities challenging the state's new law governing natural gas drilling activities will get their day in court next week, after the Commonwealth Court on Wednesday granted their...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Towns sue Pa. over Marcellus Shale law]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Philadelphia Inquirer
 Tom Corbett, a Republican, took office in 2011 and backed the industry's objectives, believing that a 1984 state law had intended to outlaw municipal regulation of oil and gas...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Bradford County To Vote On &quot;Impact Fee&quot; April 12th...With Caution]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>WETM-TV
 Towanda , PA-- Main Street in Towanda has been booming since the natural gas drilling industry set up shop in Bradford County . But it's also brought "other" things along with it. "Noise,...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[DEP chief dismisses criticism of state oil, gas regulations]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
 Speaking before the Pittsburgh Airport Area Chamber of Commerce on Friday, Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer said he does not think the Act...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[DEP considers how to use impact fee]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Daily American Online
 The Department of Environmental Protection is still considering several uses for the agency's share of Marcellus Shale impact fees. Enacted in February, impact fee legislation...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[DEP to Host Online Sessions on New Marcellus Shale Law]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>HARRISBURG -- The Department of Environmental Protection  will host online information sessions on implementing Act 13, which  Governor Tom Corbett signed into law in February to further protect the ...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Access last week's newsletter at MM]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[PUC approves starting pipeline registry]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has approved beginning the process of creating a registry for nonpublic utility gas and hazardous liquids pipeline equipment and facilities in the state,...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Marcellus Shale gas drilling industry creates demand for cars in economically ...]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Patriot-News
 In this photo made on Wednesday, July 27, 2011, a pair of workers are seen behind the top of a pump where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[It's not fracking's fault, study says]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>msnbc.com
 Researchers reviewed the evidence contained in the reports of groundwater contamination from three prominent shale-rock formations where the process is employed: the Barnett Shale in North...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[As Wayne County landowners push for drilling, Delaware raises new concerns]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Scranton Times-Tribune
 By Laura Legere, Staff Writer) A group of Wayne County landowners eager for natural gas drilling to begin in the Delaware River watershed renewed its call for action in recent...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[PUC eyes private firm for impact fee collection]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Towanda Daily Review
 By Robert Swift (Harrisburg Bureau Chief) HARRISBURG - The state Public Utility Commission is assuming new regulatory duties under the Marcellus Shale drilling impact fee law...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Smith criticizes Miller, McLinko over position on fee]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Morning Times
 BY KRISTY WESTBROOK TOWANDA&amp;ndash; Following Bradford County Commissioner Doug McLinko's comments to The Associated Press this week, the county's two other commissioners weighed in on...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Impact fee bill addresses housing needs]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Citizens Voice
 By Robert Swift (Harrisburg Bureau Chief) HARRISBURG - Affordable housing advocates are praising the Marcellus Shale impact fee legislation that dedicates money for housing needs in...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Chu: Shale gas can free nation]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:09:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
 The Secretary of Energy believes that tapping the natural gas resources of the Marcellus shale can help steer the country toward energy independence, and ongoing government...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Renew Growing Greener Coalition Commends Growing Greener Funding Within House Bill 1950]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:19:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>The Renew Growing Greener Coalition,  the largest coalition of conservation, recreation and environmental  organizations in the Commonwealth, today issued the following statement  from Executive...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[PA Environmental Council says &quot;people of PA are better served by legislation.&quot;]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>The enemy of the good is the perfect, and while this legislation is  not perfect, the people of Pennsylvania are better served by passage of  this bill now than to wait another year or longer for...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay Foundation Calls Shale Legislation a &quot;tremendous step forward.&quot;]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>"HB1950 represents a tremendous step forward for the Commonwealth in  managing current and future drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale  formation. This bill combines the best...Read more</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[PA Conservation Districts Statement Supporting Shale Legislation]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gov. Corbett Applauds Passage of Shale Legislation]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Subscribers can access the House Roll Call Vote on Impact Fee Bill Here]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[The House has adopted HB 1950 (Impact Fee/Regulatory) by a vote of 101-90.  The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Corbett for his signature.]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[State Senate passes Marcellus Shale legislation]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Senate Approves HB 1950 Conference Committee Report by a vote of 31-19]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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Alloway (R)

Argall (R)

Browne (R)

Brubaker (R)

Corman (R)

Earll (R)

Erickson (R)

Folmer (R)

Gordner (R)

Greenleaf (R)

Hughes (D)

Kasunic (D)

Mcilhinney (R)

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 <title><![CDATA[HB 1950 Conference Committee meets &amp; sends conference committee report to House &amp; Senate by party line vote...votes by House &amp; Senate expected tomorrow]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[House Impact Fee Conferees Ellis, Hanna &amp; Reed...meeting likley at 7:00 pm]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Senate insists on its amendments to HB 1950 creating a Conference Committee]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Latest Proposed Impact Fee Numbers Available on Marcellus Minutes]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[AP: GOP lawmakers seek vote on Pa. drilling bill]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[APNewsBreak: Top GOP lawmakers seek vote on Pa. gas-drilling bill framework ...]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[John Hanger's Facts of The Day: CBS News Botches Dimock Story ...]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:31:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Corbett reasserts position on drilling consistency]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Corbett tells legislators to send him a Marcellus Shale bill 'as soon as possible']]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:17:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Corbett urges legislative leaders to limit what towns can require of gas drillers]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[In this week's newsletter...Reed and Depasquale introduce Business Tax Reform Proposal]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Record numbers converting from oil to natural gas heat]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:49:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:43:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Talisman confident it won't repeat 2011 misses]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:48:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Talisman, Canada's fifth-largest independent oil explorer, is reducing spending in the Marcellus shale region of the northeastern United States and in the Montney of British Columbia...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Gov Tom Corbett will sign drilling emergency response legislation]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Anadarko CEO: Natural-Gas Prices Won't Be Depressed Much Longer]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:09:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:04:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Tom Corbett from last year. Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati, R-25, Jefferson County, said Tuesday he hopes final passage of impact fee legislation can be...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:27:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:30:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Elmira Star-Gazette
 The great unknown, the market prices for natural gas. Drillers have swarmed in recent years to the lucrative Marcellus Shale region primarily beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:42:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[House unanimously rejects Senate's amendments to HB 1950 (Impact Fee) moving it closer to conference committee.]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:53:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Scranton Times-Tribune
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 <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:23:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:15:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Jesse Sanford of Re-Train America teaches veterans a new career - a new life centered around the Marcellus Shale drilling boom in Lycoming County. The government funded a two-week program at...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:20:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:28:00 EST</pubDate>
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 He said one factor to consider with regard to the impact fee is the different types of natural gas found in the state. This region, he said, yields a dry natural gas as...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:38:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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 By ALYSSA MURPHY, Williamsport Sun-Gazette Anadarko Petroleum Corp. held an open house Tuesday night to invite local government leaders to see the newly expanded property...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:55:00 EST</pubDate>
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 AP HARRISBURG, Pa. &amp;mdash; Pennsylvania's top Republican senator has won a key committee's support for his broad-ranging bill to regulate natural gas drilling in the state, but without...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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 Haney, air quality environmental group manager for southwestern Pennsylvania, said his department has never gotten a reading of any air contaminant anywhere near...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 09:57:00 EST</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 Tom Corbett's office proclaimed after the House Finance Committee ushered through a Marcellus Shale impact fee and regulation measure on Wednesday. As he applauded that...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 09:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>StateImpact Pennsylvania
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 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:10:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Sacramento Bee
 2, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett is pleased to see legislative movement on the Marcellus Shale bill, House Bill 1950, and commends the House Finance...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Post Gazette
 Tom Corbett proposed earlier this month. The measure, from Rep. Brian Ellis, R-Butler, appears to be on the fast track for a committee vote next week. "I anticipated that...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:40:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Senate Appropriations Committee Schedules Vote on Impact Fee Wednesday 10.26]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:01:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Wall Street Journal
 AP PITTSBURGH &amp;mdash; Members of the leading Marcellus Shale industry group in Pennsylvania will voluntarily disclose chemicals used in each natural gas well as of Jan. 1, the...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[This week's newsletter features Governor Corbett's Impact Fee language...Read it Here!]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gas Drilling Boom Brings New Life To Steel Industry]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Colleges expand offerings amid natural gas boom]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:28:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The Associated Press
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 <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:27:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 Development of a database that will be able to track potential impacts of Marcellus Shale activity on water quality is the focus of a new $750000 research collaboration led by Penn...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Nova &amp;ndash; which traces its roots to Alberta's gas gathering system &amp;ndash; has signed deals with Sunoco Pipeline LP and two Marcellus shale gas producers to ship ethane &amp;ndash; which is derived...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:21:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:03:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 By James O'Toole Rich Fitzgerald, the Democratic nominee for county executive, said he would impose a county fee or tax in Marcellus Shale drillers if the Legislature were to...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>In April Chesapeake Energy had a blowout in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania. Within two days it plugged the natural gas well. No fire or injuries, but several thousand gallons of chemical-tainted...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania Associate Director Joe Leighton said Governor Corbett's Marcellus Shale ...Read more</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Tom Corbett's proposal to allow counties to impose a fee on Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling. The County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania said Thursday it likes the part where 75 percent...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Tom Corbett's proposal for an impact fee on gas wells was disappointment that the state isn't working to make natural gas subject to property taxes. But Susan Benedict, chairwoman of the Centre...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:24:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[PennDOT: Roads used by drillers in better shape]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:07:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Wall Street Journal
 AP STATE COLLEGE, Pa. &amp;mdash; Fewer Pennsylvania roads used by heavy vehicles tied to the Marcellus Shale need major repair this year because the state and natural gas industry...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Upper Devonian may hold as much gas as Marcellus Shale: Range executive]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Chesapeake Energy: First wells drilled in Utica shale are 'very strong']]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:06:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The second is producing 3.8 million cubic feet of gas and 980 barrels. In addition, Chesapeake has one Utica well in Beaver County, Pa., that is yielding 6.4 million cubic feet of natural gas, with...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Scarnati may use liquor stores to leverage gas impact fee]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Latest News: Senate GOP leader says Corbett working on shale gas impact fee]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
 Tom Corbett is working on a natural gas impact fee legislation, the Senate`s top Republican said today. "He (Corbett) tells me that`s coming soon," Scarnati , the president...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Spin overtaking facts in Marcellus Shale debate]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 Fox didn't mention that Pennsylvania had up to 325000 oil and gas wells before gas-fracking even started, according to the Pa. Department of Environmental Protection. Some date...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Marcellus Shale drilling fee ranked high on Corbett/lawmaker to-do list]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:38:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Tom Corbett is putting the finishing touches on a welcome-back-to-session gift to lawmakers: his plan for overseeing and charging a fee on Marcellus Shale gas ...Read more</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[On the air, Corbett calls for impact fee]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Gov. Corbett said on his new monthly radio show Thursday that  he will support the imposition of an "impact fee" on companies  extracting natural gas from Marcellus Shale regions of the state.</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[State poised to regulate Marcellus Shale drilling]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>HARRISBURG -- Some federal lawmakers say the bulk of drilling oversight should be at the state level, and their General Assembly counterparts appear eager to take on that task. But the state...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Export's Dura-Bond reaps benefits of natural gas development]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:23:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Count industrial pipe coater, pipe maker and steel fabricator Dura-Bond Industries Inc. of Export as another business benefiting from the growth in natural gas production because of Pennsylvania's...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Marcellus Minutes Releases Updated Analysis of Industry Related Legislation...subscribe to see 100 bills!]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers prioritize Marcellus issues for fall session]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, September 8, 2011 PHILADELPHIA -- State legislators plan to focus on pipeline safety, drilling taxes and environmental rules when they address shale drilling after...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Pa. DEP head says gas drilling will be done safely]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Forbes
 Krancer lauded the industry for bringing money and jobs to Pennsylvania and said natural gas was a low-carbon fuel that will help make the air cleaner, lower fuel costs and reduce the...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[UGI chief and state officials mull over future economic potential of shale gas]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>By David Falchek (Staff Writer) PHILADELPHIA - Compared to three years ago, the average UGI natural gas customer pays $1500 less for gas thanks to price decreases related to shale gas production,...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Drillers, officials urge state oversight]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:13:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Timothy Puko, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review&amp;hellip;Drilling industry leaders on Wednesday touted the need for consistent regulation -- from each of the two dozen states where they operate -- not the...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Pennsylvania's US delegation offers bipartisan support to drillers]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:39:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Consol sells Utica Shale rights in Ohio for $593M]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:36:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Wall Street Journal
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 <title><![CDATA[Natural gas key to national securty, Ridge tells conference]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Tom Ridge opened the Marcellus Shale Coalition's conference here on a fiery note. Mr. Ridge, who spent the past year as a paid adviser to the industry trade group, used his half-hour opening remarks...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Inside the Convention Center, industry executives, regulators, environmental advocates, and two former Pennsylvania governors and the current one will discuss the future of natural gas. Outside,...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Who's who of gas industry meeting in Philadelphia]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:54:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pa., W.Va., Ohio vie for huge new Shell gas plant]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:58:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The plans are driven by the vast natural gas reserves discovered in the Marcellus Shale, a deep formation that lies beneath New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and parts of other states. The...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[New Economic Impact Study from Penn State shows Bradford County Businesses saw an increase in sales]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Study: Fracking priciest for wells]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>By Erich Schwartzel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The hydraulic fracturing process that's brought the most controversy to the natural gas industry is also the most expensive aspect of operating a...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Gas lease, royalty income taxes top $100 million in state]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:11:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[PA House Republican Caucus - Baker Bill to Include Natural Gas ...]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Priority list: GOP-controlled Legislature must tackle Marcellus Shale ...]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 11:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>As Senate leader Joe Scarnati says, &amp;ldquo;This is year three now without a comprehensive package or shale fee not being finalized.&amp;rdquo; Gov. Tom Corbett can call it a tax or fee or whatever, but...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Cawley calls for improvements to drilling regulations]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[USGS Releases New Assessment of Gas Resources in the Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[One Month Later, Corbett Stays Vague On Marcellus Report's Recommendations]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:47:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>By Scott Detrow The Republican charged the panel with setting his agenda, when it comes to regulating and expanding Pennsylvania's booming natural gas industry. But in late August, Corbett is staying...</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The more than 1600 Marcellus wells currently in production put out a total of 432 billion cubic feet of natural gas in the first six months of the year, according to the figures provided to the state...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Marcellus Shale driller fighting South Fayette ordinance]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:47:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>By Erich Schwartzel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Range Resources made a significant move Tuesday in what is likely the first step in a legal challenge to the wave of small-town regulations on natural gas...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[UGI says region will be first to go all-Marcellus]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>By Elizabeth Skrapits UGI Utilities Inc. plans to make the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area its first region in Pennsylvania where customers will receive all their natural gas from the Marcellus Shale....</description></item>


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 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shale Gas Producing Results]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:32:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The Perryman Group in 2008 found that Barnett Shale drilling generated 132497 jobs and other studies found that the Haynesville and Marcellus shales created about 57000 jobs each, according to a...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[State pushes for legal end to shale wastewater discharges]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:19:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Marcellus report revives water well issue]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The Governor's Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission included the recommendation in last month's report to guide the development of the deep pockets of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation. The...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Corbett says Pa. impact fee could drive gas industry out of state]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:52:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Tom Corbett says if an impact fee does get past Pennsylvania's Legislature, he doesn't want to see the revenue end up in the state's general budget. Still, the governor is not sold on the necessity...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Cheap Shale Gas Means Record U.S. Chemical Industry Expansion]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:42:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Driving this renaissance is the plunge in the price of natural gas, used in crackers as a raw material, to a nine-year low. New drilling methods are opening up vast shale formations from Texas to...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Pro-gas landowners group forming]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:45:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 Don Fitzsimmons, who represents the Joint Landowners Coalition of New York (JLCNY), which is focused on natural gas issues, said the JLCNY represents 38 different coalitions of...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Council, mayor spar over Pa. drilling referendum]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:14:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[PA up to 95 Marcellus Related Bills.  Subscribe to see them.]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:33:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Corbett Says He May Consider Fee For Marcellus Shale Drillers]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:22:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Tom Corbett says he may finally be ready to agree to a fee, rather than a tax, on Marcellus Shale gas drillers. "An appropriate impact fee I can see adopting and making sure the money goes into the...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[DEP boss: We won't leave scars]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:04:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>Michael Krancer, the secretary of Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection, who opened the conference on Friday at Best Western Genetti Inn and Suites, said he will police gas drilling...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Pittsburgh drilling referendum faces legal issues]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 ... but supporters of the referendum say amending the city's charter would make it harder for pro-drilling forces to force future city councils to rescind the ban, which was...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Firm: Natural gas deposits in Ohio could be worth $20 billion]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:59:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>... natural gas to go to Ohioans, including minorities, and not people from other states. &amp;ldquo;I don't want any foreigners working on wellheads,&amp;rdquo; Kasich said in a speech at the Columbus...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Impact study details growth in shale work]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:15:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>The Marcellus Shale Education and Training Center recently released an impact study, which revealed that between 18596 to 30684 jobs will be needed by 2014, including 9800 to 15900 new positions....</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[A state-level look at how energy companies create economic opportunity July 27 | Posted by Ken Cohen]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:05:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[City water authority selling water for gas drilling]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:35:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <description>By William Kibler For the second time, the Altoona Water Authority is advertising for proposals for a site in Pinecroft, where it can set up its second permanent water station to serve Marcellus...</description></item>


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 <title><![CDATA[Natives find way home by shale drilling]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:30:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Governor Corbett's Marcellus Commission Report now available]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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 <title><![CDATA[Marcellus Advisory Commission now taking up recommendation 43]]></title>
 
 <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:43:00 EDT</pubDate>
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