Support for the use of fracking by the natural gas industry is growing with awareness despite concerns about potential damage to the environment, a new poll by Robert Morris University shows.
Shell Chemicals has closed on an agreement to buy the former Horsehead Corp. property along the Ohio River where it could build a multibillion dollar ethane cracker plant.
Thanks to the 2014 impact fee, the Pennsylvania Finance Agency is now issuing a Request for Proposals for projects that will improve housing in the Marcellus Shale region in Pennsylvania.
The survey, performed by Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, shows 57.1 percent of Pennsylvanians support the natural gas drilling technique.
Marcellus ethane moves one step closer to Europe with delivery of the first Dragon class liquid gas carrier .
Joined by state business, energy and labor leaders, Speaker of the House Mike Turzai (R-Dist. 28) hosted an energy roundtable Thursday at the Marcus Hook Industrial Complex in Philadelphia, focusing on transforming the city into a global energy hub.
Some welcome news for municipal budgets came on Wednesday from the state Public Utility Commission - millions of dollars is on its way to local coffers from the Marcellus Shale impact fee.
Centre County received more than $500,000 in 2014 from natural gas drilling in the county.
Payments by drillers lower than '13; PUC says data incomplete
