Opponents of Gov. Tom Wolf’s Restore Pennsylvania initiative held a news conference Thursday to express their concerns that the plan would unfairly impact the state’s natural gas industry.
Not long after Gov. Tom Wolf wrapped up his stop in Towanda to tout his natural gas severance tax-funded Restore PA initiative, business and industry officials, as well as representatives from neighboring Tioga and Wyoming counties, began sharing concerns via conference call that using a severance tax to fund a variety of much-longed-for infrastructure projects would do nothing but push the natural gas industry away and worsen the area’s economic climate.
Tioga County commissioner Erick Coolidge; Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry director of Government Affairs Kevin Sunday; president of the Wyoming Chamber of Commerce Gina Severcool Suydam; PIOGA president Dan Weaver and API-PA associate director Jonathan Lutz discussed the pitfalls of the $4.5 billion “Restore PA” initiative and its negative impacts on Pennsylvania’s economy and the state’s natural gas industry.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s “Restore Pennsylvania” fund sounds nice, but it’s really just a vehicle to impose another severance tax.
A Mercer County commissioner and Pennsylvania business groups expressed their opposition Thursday to Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed severance tax on natural gas drillers.
In his relentless push for a natural gas severance tax, Gov. Tom Wolf has gotten much better at the practical side of the initiative.
The article “Texas report: Pennsylvania 2nd only to us in natural gas production” (March 13, TribLIVE) pointed out that even though Texas is the United States’ de facto energy capital, Pennsylvania is a major player.
A recent article (“Local politicians gather at Eastburg Boiler Works site, call for funding”, March 28) about Gov. Tom Wolf’s Restore Pennsylvania program omits key facts about the current funding solution that’s generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually for infrastructure, community and environmental programs around the state.
A number of business and trade industry associations on Thursday voiced opposition to Gov. Tom Wolf’s Restore Pennsylvania initiative, which would be funded by a severance tax on natural gas extraction.
March brought good news to the state’s fiscal situation with general fund collections totaling $4.6 billion, or $76.1 million more than anticipated.