PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: In October, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Chesapeake Energy was deducting “impact fee” payments out of oil and gas lease royalties.
The state impact fee is the tax that drillers pay to the state, meant to help counties and towns pay for, among other things, repairing road and bridge damage caused by the heavy gas trucks, preserving water supplies, and repairing water and sewer systems.
But Act 13, the state’s major oil and gas law, bars such fees from being deducted from royalty payments… (more)
