WV Legislature Adjorns Without Voting On Oil & Gas-Related Proposals
As reported in Wheeling News-Register, several proposals related to oil & gas development introduced by members of the West Virginia Legislature did not receive enough support to make it to a vote before the Legislature adjourned its 2013 Regular Legislative Session on April 13th. One bill proposed the creation of a “West Virginia Future Fund,” funded with severance tax revenues, which would be used to finance future infrastructure, education and other investments. Other failed legislative proposals include a bill to monitor seismic activity near production and injection wells, a bill that would require landmen that are not members of the American Association of Professional Landmen to, among other things, take an ethics class, and a bill to integrate co-tenant lessors of oil and gas interests into a proposed drilling unit under very specific circumstances.