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Stigall Show Log 9.8.11
5:45 Former Philadelphia Superintendant of Schools, Arlene Ackerman, has been paid her $905,000 buyout, all of which now comes from public money. 6:10 The Republican Presidential Candidates debated...
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Corbett Takes Hands-On Approach For Drawing Up Natural Gas Drilling Bill
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) - Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett told Talk Radio 1210 WPHT today that he will draw up his own legislation to impose impact fees on natural gas drillers. Corbett flatly opposes...
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Gov. Corbett Unveils Proposed ‘Impact Fees’ on Natural Gas Drillers
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) - Governor Tom Corbett has made his much-anticipated proposal to impose “impact fees” on natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. At an event today in Pittsburgh, Gov. Corbett...
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Corbett’s Fracking ‘Impact Fees’ Fall Short, Says Pennsylvania Environmental...
BRISTOL, Pa. (CBS) - Environmentalists who oppose Marcellus Shale drilling are not too keen on Governor Tom Corbett’s announcement today proposing “impact fees” on drillers (see related story)....
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Natural Gas Drilling Bill Delayed
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) – State Senate action on a bill to regulate and impose fees on natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania has been delayed for at least two weeks. There was an expectation that natural...
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Geologist: Fracking Can Cause Small Earthquakes
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Scientists are exploring a new concern about gas extraction in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale beds: Earthquakes. To break up the shale, to get to the gas, energy companies pump...
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Pa. Senate Passes Natural Gas Drilling Regulations
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) – The state legislature continues to move closer to enacting a bill that would regulate natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. The state Senate Tuesday night passed its version of...
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Pennsylvania House And Senate Pass Natural Gas Drilling Regulation Bills
HARRISBURG, Pa (CBS) - Both the Pennsylvania House and Senate have now passed different bills to regulate and impose fees on the state’s natural gas drilling industry. The state Senate passed a natural...
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Philadelphia Gets High Marks For Green Energy
By John Ostapkovich PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – With all the controversy about natural gas production from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale region, you might wonder where green energy fits in. Quite nicely,...
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Pennsylvania Receiving State Funding For Various Conservation, Recreation...
By Paul Kurtz UPPER PROVIDENCE, Pa. (CBS) — Dozens of parks in Pennsylvania will be receiving state funding for various conservation and recreation projects. Governor Corbett travelled to Schuylkill...
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Part 4: Can We Fix It?
KYW Regional Affairs Council “Princes & Paupers” . By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Numerous polls show that Americans, with the steepest income gap of any developed country, are concerned about...
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Electricity Prices Falling In Pennsylvania Due To Dual Market Forces, Says...
By Michelle Durham PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The price of electricity is dropping in our area. But why is that the case? Is it because Pennsylvanians can now choose their electric supplier, so suppliers...
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Consortium Pitches Natural Gas Pipeline Through Pennsylvania To Serve...
By Tony Romeo HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) — Three companies are proposing to build a billion-dollar natural gas pipeline through Pennsylvania and other states to ship natural gas from the Marcellus Shale...
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Federal Government Approves Aid For Displaced Employees Of Delaware County...
By David Madden DELAWARE COUNTY, Pa. (CBS) – The feds have approved some $5 million that will aid displaced workers at a pair of shuttered oil refineries in Delaware County. The National Emergency...
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Part 4: What’s Ahead
KYW Regional Affairs Council “The Delaware Valley Unrefined” . By David Madden PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — So, with a half-billion-dollar potential hit to the regional economy looming in just three months,...
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Pa. Lawmaker Wants To Lift Doctor-Patient Gag Order in Marcellus Shale Law
By Kim Glovas PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Pennsylvania’s new law governing Marcellus shale gas drilling — Act 13 — bars doctors and other health professions from sharing information about what chemicals are...
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Penn State Prof’s New Book Examines Past, Future of Pennsylvania Energy Industry
By John Ostapkovich ALTOONA, Pa. (CBS) — We pay a fortune at the gas pump these days, and a new book from a Penn State professor looks at how petroleum went from a dirt-cheap resource begging for wider...
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Delco Officials Think Sunoco Refinery’s Future Is In Marcellus Shale
By David Madden MARCUS HOOK, Pa. (CBS) — Delaware County has released the results of a $100,000 study looking into the future of the closed Sunoco oil refinery in Marcus Hook. Seven alternate uses have...
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Shale Gas Conference in Center City Philadelphia Draws Protesters
By John McDevitt PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Nearly 2,000 members of the natural gas industry are in Philadelphia for the Shale Gas Insight convention, and it’s bringing opposition — with protesters...
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Five Counties of Southeastern Penna. Will Share $3.4 Million of Marcellus...
By Tony Romeo HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) — Philadelphia will get almost $1.3 million while the four suburban counties in Southeastern Pennsylvania will receive a total of more than $2 million through the...
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On Energy Policy, Candidates Seem To Agree On Natural Gas
By John Ostapkovich PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – One of the key issues in the Presidential campaign is US energy policy, but the natural gas industry, at least, thinks it’s sitting pretty. Pennsylvania is...
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Va. Company Hoping To Expand Overseas Markets For Marcellus Shale Gas
By David Madden LUSBY, Md. (CBS) — A Virginia based utility has announced plans to obtain natural gas from the Marcellus Shale field in Pennsylvania, liquefy it, and ship it overseas. Dominion...
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Protesters Rally Outside DEP Offices On Earth Day To Fight Marcellus Shale...
By Kim Glovas NORRISTOWN, Pa., (CBS) – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection was the target of protest this Earth Day by more than 62 organizations fighting Marcellus Shale drilling...
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Critics Challenge Gov. Corbett at Fracking Industry Meeting in Philadelphia
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett met a receptive audience from the oil and gas industry today at the Franklin Institute, while critics of Marcellus Shale drilling...
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PA House GOP Conservatives Flex Political Muscle
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Unlike the Timber Caucus or the Italian-American Caucus, the more conservative Republican members of the Pennsylvania House aren’t formally organized, but they have something...
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Pa. Attorney General Prosecutes Marcellus Shale Driller For Waste Water Spill
By Michelle Durham PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Marcellus Shale is a layer of rock about 5,000 feet below the earth’s surface and drillers can extract natural gas from it in a process calling fracking....
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Officials Celebrate Opening of Fuel Transport Facility in Southwest Philly
By Paul Kurtz PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Governor Tom Corbett and Mayor Michael Nutter traveled to the Greys Ferry neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia today to help celebrate the opening of a high-speed...
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Coast Guard Wants Barges To Ship Fracking Water
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard wants to allow barges filled with fracking wastewater to ply the nation’s rivers on their way toward disposal. Many environmentalists are horrified, but industry...
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Pa. Supreme Court Strikes Down Part Of Marcellus Shale Drilling Law
By Tony Romeo HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) – The state Supreme Court has struck down portions of a controversial law governing natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale regions. The state Supreme...
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Local Environmental Group Applauds Pa. High Court Decision on Fracking Law
By Kim Glovas PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Environmental groups are cheering a decision yesterday by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which struck down parts of the controversial Act 13, a law governing natural...
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PA Prosecutor Eyes Gas Royalty Check Complaints
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Following a request by a state senator from northern Pennsylvania, state Attorney General Kathleen Kane is reviewing whether her office has jurisdiction to investigate complaints...
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Despite Dearth of Customers, a Natural Gas Fueling Station Opens in Phila.
By Steve Tawa PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Governor Tom Corbett stopped by today to say “fill ‘er up” at Philadelphia’s first natural gas vehicle fueling station. Corbett noted that he supports the widespread...
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Some Pa. State Officials Push To Tax Marcellus Shale Drilling In Effort To...
By Justin Udo PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — There’s been un-taxed Marcellus Shale drilling in Pennsylvania for the last few years, but now some state officials want to change that. Pennsylvania State Senator...
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Local Environmental Groups Warn of Accident Potential From Marcellus Shale...
By Paul Kurtz PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Last month’s oil train derailment and explosion in West Virginia has prompted environmentalists in Pennsylvania to sound the alarm about the potential dangers that...
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Upstate NY Towns Consider Seceding To Pa. After Fracking Ban
CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) — Plenty of people leave New York state but in a job-hungry stretch of upstate, folks talk about staying put and seceding to Pennsylvania. Local officials stung by a recent decision...
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Wolf Administration Advances Tougher Gas Drilling Rules
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania state environmental regulators say they want to get tougher on how the Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling industry stores waste, dampens noise and affects water...
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Gov. Wolf Woos Energy Industry Engineers in Philadelphia for Annual Convention
http://media.philadelphia.cbslocal.com/CBSPHL_20150317184639207AA.mp4 By Pat Loeb PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf made his first visit today to the Pennsylvania Convention Center,...
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Officials Unveil New Plans To Refuel Business At Marcus Hook Refinery Site
By Jim Melwert MARCUS HOOK, Pa. (CBS) — Marcus Hook was hit hard when its refinery closed three years ago. But Delaware County council members are optimistic as they unveil phase-two of the study...
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Pennsylvania State House Is Called On To Tax Gas Drilling For Public Education
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –– While the State Senate in Harrisburg has approved a plan to balance the state budget, in part by taxing drilling for natural gas, the revenue package remains in limbo, awaiting...
View ArticleShale Tax Supporters Face Slow Go In PA House
HARRISBURG, PA (CBS) — Supporters of a tax on natural gas extraction are growing frustrated with the slow, grinding process of debating the issue in the state House, which has now adjourned until next...
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