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Ed Markey: I believe the Markey bill, which would create an annual production incentive fee to ensure that industry uses these…

On the recordNovember 17, 2011
I believe the Markey bill, which would create an annual production incentive fee to ensure that industry uses these resources it already has in hand, would do just that.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey supports a bill to incentivize oil and gas companies to develop existing resources.

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