The Shale Gas Economy in the Northeast Pennsylvania Counties

Kirsten Hardy () and Timothy W. Kelsey ()
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Kirsten Hardy: The Pennsylvania State University
Timothy W. Kelsey: The Pennsylvania State University

A chapter in Economics of Unconventional Shale Gas Development, 2015, pp 71-91 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract More than half of the Marcellus Shale wells drilled in Pennsylvania through 2013 are within six counties of the Northern Tier, which account for four of Pennsylvania’s top five drilling counties. These counties overwhelmingly are rural, with low population densities and relatively small economies. Unlike the Marcellus Shale counties in southwest Pennsylvania, they lack past gas and coal development, so the activity is fundamentally different than what they have experienced. This chapter explores the economic impacts occurring within the Northern Tier counties. Due to their relatively small population size, such changes are relatively more visible than if the economies were larger.

Keywords: Drilling Activity; Marcellus Shale; Royalty Income; Compensation Income; Total Taxable Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11499-6_4

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