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TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts)
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 10:32 PM Feb 2021

Report shows natural gas fracking didn't produce promised jobs to Pa. and Appalachia

While still recovering from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, natural gas drilling — aka fracking — appeared in the Pittsburgh region and claimed to be able to offer economic relief. One of the first major energy players to move into the Pittsburgh region and greater Appalachia was Range Resources. The Texas-based oil and gas company claimed that fracking would lead to economic benefits beyond just those made from extracting natural gas.

In an October 2012 commercial, Range Resources claimed Pittsburgh is the place “where manufacturing will become American again” and ends with the tagline, “Drilling is just the beginning.” Those manufacturing gains never materialized, and the Pittsburgh region has lost several thousand manufacturing jobs since 2012.

And according to a new report from the Ohio River Valley Institute, that was just one of several failed economic promises natural gas companies made to the Pittsburgh area, Appalachia, and the Marcellus and Utica Shale region.

A press release for the study references how natural gas companies published economic impact reports claiming that Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia would see 450,000 new jobs thanks to fracking. But according to ORVI’s report, 22 counties that saw significant fracking only saw job figures increase by 1.7%, while jobs nationally grew by 10%.

Read more: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/report-shows-natural-gas-fracking-didnt-produce-promised-jobs-to-pa-and-appalachia/Content?oid=18902088

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Report shows natural gas fracking didn't produce promised jobs to Pa. and Appalachia (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2021 OP
Was Coal adding new jobs? StClone Feb 2021 #1
The only local people it helped here in my opinion is it made a lot of doc03 Feb 2021 #2

doc03

(36,694 posts)
2. The only local people it helped here in my opinion is it made a lot of
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 11:41 PM
Feb 2021

big landowners rich. The labor in the fracking business is temporary and comes from out of state. One thing though
the claim was that industries would come when the kracker plant goes on line in Beaver county PA. There is also
a kracker plant in planning for Belmont county Ohio but this has gone on for at least 5 years and no decision on
building it. Myself I don't think they will ever build it.

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