TRACE ADKINS COMING TO THE TROY FAIR ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH, 2013

Editor’s note:  If you like County Music and live in the Bradford County vicinity, or feel like taking a road trip, this might interest you.  The show is at 8pm.  You can get tickets here https://troyfair.s6.photonicwebdesign.com/tickets-0

Pennsylvania’s Natural Gas Production Up 60 Percent

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Pennsylvania’s new growth industry, natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation, has started to take off in a big way.  Figures show production was 60 percent higher for the first six months of 2011 than is was for the last six months of 2010.

Bradford, Susquehanna and Tioga Counties were responsible for over half of the state’s natural gas production.  So far this year, production in Pennsylvania has topped 400 billion cubic feet of natural gas.  There are over 1600 wells tapping the Marcellus Shale gas reserves in Pennsylvania.

The gas industry is not without controversy, despite the economic impact it brings.  Issues with ground water contamination and taxation rage on.