Grass Roots Participation in Drilling Debate Crucial to Continued Growth in Industry

Get involved with decision makers early and often or the prosperity that natural gas drilling/production has brought to Pennsylvania in the last six years could slow substantially, speakers agreed at the Upstream PA 2015 oil and natural gas program last Thursday, April 16. Regulation, proposed tax legislation and the proverbial elephant in the shale play, bottom-hugging natural gas prices, collectively were cited by speakers as having a huge impact on which direction production moves in the Keystone State. Everyone Has ‘Skin in the Game’ “People say they don’t have any skin in the game, if they aren’t employed in the oil and gas industry, but I would say everyone has skin in this game,” Dave Spigelmyer, President of the trade group Marcellus Shale Coalition, told an audience of roughly 150 at Upstream 2015. “We have to be involved in the debate about which way this industry goes,” said Jim Rodgers, Marketing & Business Development Director with Harrisburg, PA-based Daw
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