How can I get a job within this industry?
This is by far one of the more popular questions we received from our Ask About Shale initiative. While the [...]
Why do you get tax breaks?
Since 2006, the natural gas industry has paid more than $1.6 billion in state and local taxes and paid $400 [...]
What vertical job opportunities are there for this region to service the industry or to train and relocate?
Every step in the process of finding, producing, and bringing oil and gas to market involves many people working to [...]
If I decide to lease my land, can I write the contract for industry to sign?
You would certainly have a hand in the process. Natural gas leases are contracts between the landowner and the natural [...]
Why did we give the leases away? Why do we have to use fracking?
Land- and mineral-owners make individual decisions as it relates to contracts that permit energy companies to explore for and develop [...]
Once the questions have been answered to the satisfaction of most sane people, will the radical environmentalists still be able to stop the project like they did with the Keystone?
Since the MSC’s focus is shale development across the Appalachia region – and not energy development in other regions of [...]
Do the residents in the area of the drilling really approve?
According to public opinion polls, support for natural gas production in and around communities where these activities are taking place [...]
What is more cost effective, build new refineries or repurpose existing oil refineries?
For a period of time, several Philadelphia-area refineries – a tremendous source jobs and economic activity – were in jeopardy [...]
How do we educate within the local schools: public schools as well as at the collegiate level?
The Marcellus Shale Coalition is works directly with trade and technical school, community colleges and some four years universities to [...]
Why not clean the tank trucks?
While this question is quite vague, it is common practice across the natural gas industry to wash our trucks and [...]
