No Marcellus Shale Gas Boom For PA
From Examiner
Today, with shale gas drilling booming in 3 nearby counties, the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania and all city employees remain on minimum wages of $7.25 an hour as the city struggles with an estimated $17 million budget shortfall. The mayor, blocked by his city council from raising taxes now finds even though his city is near the state’s epicenter of shale gas operations, the state’s new impact fee formula does not allow Scranton to directly access any of these new found revenues. Scranton’s current budget stands at $78 million per year.
