What is the Marcellus Shale?
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Conversation and Natural Resources (DCNR), “The Marcellus shale is an organic-rich black shale that [...]
What happens if they drill on your property and you don’t want them to?
This is a good question, we are glad you asked it. There are two answers to this question. The first [...]
What is fracking?
Great question. Here’s how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines the well completion technology called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”: [...]
Why isn’t there a tax being collected for the gas companies that can be used in the event of an environmental accident?
Natural gas production from the Marcellus Shale continues to generate enormous amounts of state, county and local tax revenues, in [...]
How will my drinking water be affected?
As an industry we get this question a lot. The short answer is, if companies properly construct wells in accordance [...]
What will industry do to educate the next Mayor of Philadelphia?
At the Marcellus Shale Coalition, we work closely with all levels of government and a variety of community stakeholders. When [...]
Is it Safe?
The tightly-regulated development of natural gas is without question an industrial process. And like all industrial activities, there is some [...]
Why isn’t it being taxed?
Natural gas production in Pennsylvania is taxed. In fact, the natural gas industry pays every single tax that any other [...]
Is Pennsylvania as a whole realizing any profits from this gas give-away (not jobs or impact fees)?
Our state government and the region’s natural gas industry continue to work collaboratively to ensure that the concerns and needs [...]
Is it starting earth tremors?
The U.S. Geological Survey recently released a study -- Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies -- conducted by the National [...]
