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Vote Count for Fracking Impact Fee Just Got Tougher
Bad news for the Republicans’ “impact fee” on fracking:
Joe Scarnati is Reading His Keystone Politics
Looks like Joe Scarnati agrees with my read of the Marcellus Shale politics.
Turzai: Republicans Don’t Care About Passing a Fracking Tax
It looks like the votes aren’t there for Harrisburg Republicans to pass any kind of fracking tax.
GOP Bills Undercharge Frackers for Abandoned Wells
Robert Swift says both of the Republican bills in the House and Senate would force taxpayers to pick up the tab for cleaning up abandoned fracking wells:
Governor Norquist Doesn’t Like the House Impact Fee
I’m late to this, but I didn’t see much discussion of Grover Norquist’s statement on the House impact fee last week:
Ed Rendell Tells Dems to Reject Weak Impact Fee
Laura Olson reports that Republicans passed Joe Scarnati’s impact fee bill out of committee on an almost party-line vote, and the bill will now be voted on by the full Senate at some point today.
House Fracking Bill Can’t Pass the Senate
Scott Detrow gets behind the Capitolwire Pay Fortress and tells us that that the Senate Republicans do not have the votes to pass the House/Corbett language preëmpting local zoning regulations for fracking.
Do Corbett’s Zoning Changes Go Far Enough?
Anything that derails the “local impact fee” version of a fracking tax is fine by me, but I do want to push back on this argument:
Posted in Environment and Energy Tagged fracking, land use, Marcellus Shale, Municipal Consolidation
Democrats Deny Republicans Bipartisan Cover for Gas Driller Giveaway
Think about how much different Mark Scolforo’s story on the fracking fee vote would have been if the Democrats hadn’t rejected it on a party line vote:
Republicans Divided on Fracking Impact Fee
Via Scott Detrow, Pete DeCoursey says the vote count is looking dicey for a Marcellus Shale tax. It is starting to look like a “local impact fee” bill cannot pass with only Republican votes:
