Coal Mining, Economic Development, and the Natural Resource Curse

We study the effects of the property tax base shock caused by natural gas drilling in the Barnett Shale in Texas – a state that taxes oil and gas wells as property.. Over the boom

As we discussed before, MENA had almost two third of the world’s oil proven reserve, and about half of the world’s proven reserve from natural gas as well as huge

In this analysis, the estimation of European shale gas costs does not consider petroleum revenue tax and ring-fenced corporation tax that is applicable in the UK, as the

The estimates rest on baseline projections of the prices of shale gas and tight oil, of the quantities of those fuels produced in the United States, and of the profitability of

The economic impact analysis evaluated the direct, indirect and induced impact of the gas pipeline project on GDP, employment and tax revenue in Nigeria with respect to short

The Executive Manager - Communities introduced this item which was to give the opportunity for Councillors to feedback their views and questions on shale gas extraction

Unsurprisingly, as drilling expanded in the Barnett, the average oil and gas property tax base in shale zip codes increased by roughly $85,000 per student over nine years,

Keywords: Extraction, oil shale, surface retorting, in-situ retorting, retorting, pyrolytic technique, directly gas heated retorts, indirectly gas heated retorts, directly solid