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Illinois Severance Taxes and Drilling Fees?
March 19, 2013 | ShaleReporter.com

An article in the ShaleReporter reviews proposed drilling fees and a severance tax on wells that will use hydraulic fracturing to tap the New Albany Shale and similar rock units in Illinois.


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