Hit: Blighted properties large and small are being removed from the local landscape, thanks to the action of the Washington County Board of Commissioners. Last summer, the commissioners established a blight and demolition fund using $13 million in federal COVID relief money that had to be ...
Jim Welty is well versed on what is afoot and underfoot with the energy industry. Concerns about having enough energy to sustain efficiency of this region’s electric grid seem to be as abundant as the natural gas resources available in the Marcellus Shale Basin, below the Earth’s surface ...
Tax time is ahead, and Pennsylvania landowners with oil and gas rights can look forward to a new deduction. State Senate Bill 654, enacted last July, makes a depletion allowance available to more than 250,000 of these landowners when they report income from their 2024 oil and gas royalties on ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the last in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Renz No. 1 was enshrouded in doubt 20 years ago, when Range Resources was attempting to unleash natural gas from the well through hydraulic fracturing. Workers had ...
“Happy Renz-iversary,” said Range Resources Vice President of Operational Planning Tony Gaudlip at a celebration held Tuesday at the company’s Southpointe headquarters. Gaudlip and others gathered to mark the 20th anniversary of the drilling of Renz Well #1 in Mt. Pleasant Township, ...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Twenty years after the first gas well was fracked on the Renz farm in Mount Pleasant Township, Washington County, a body of evidence points to the possible ...
