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The debate over taxing shale gas production in Pennsylvania is increasingly focusing on where the money would go, as two Philadelphia-area Republican lawmakers proposed severance taxes last week designed to ease the tax burden on individuals.

The operators of two natural gas drilling waste disposal wells in Arkansas have agreed with regulators to keep the wells shut in while an ongoing study of their potential link to seismic activity in the area continues (see Shale Daily, March 17).

Thanks to the Montney and Horn River shale plays, Western Canada can hold its own in the natural gas renaissance; however, production from these developing plays will not offset declines in the region’s conventional gas production, according to Ziff Energy Group’s Edward Kallio, director of gas consulting.

Details are emerging of how the government of Quebec plans to allow companies to drill for shale gas in the province while it conducts a two-year environmental assessment of the growing industry.

Utilities and state regulators have joined nuclear industry scientists throughout the United States together to study events unfolding at Japan’s badly damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant complex.

The global upstream industry faces the loss of 5,000 experienced “petrotechnical professionals (PTP)” by 2014, according to a human resources (HR) benchmark study by Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC).

The global upstream industry faces the loss of 5,000 experienced “petrotechnical professionals (PTP)” by 2014, according to a human resources (HR) benchmark study by Schlumberger Business Consulting (SBC).

The deadline for New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to complete work on a supplemental generic environmental impact statement (SGEIS) on hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) may not be as rigid as some observers previously believed.

Despite a recent spate of negative media attention, hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking) in the Marcellus Shale is still supported by a majority of the general public, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Rochester Business Journal (RBJ).