On behalf of the 5,000 member businesses and organizations — employing 140,000 people — the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce recognizes the economic benefits and opportunity for energy independence that shale gas formations can bring to Pennsylvania’s businesses, commerce and communities.
What does the Marcellus Shale industry mean to the Lehigh [...]
Mark P. Lauriello
Regardless of your position in the debate over using hydraulic fracturing to develop shale gas resources, here’s something we can all agree on: New York state needs an economic jump-start. Local businesses that have supported communities for years are now struggling to survive.
Fortunately, that’s not the case at RETTEW Associates Inc., an engineering [...]
By Cindy Ekas
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, a Republican representing the 9th Congressional District, said the Marcellus shale gas drilling industry offers a tremendous opportunity to revitalize the economy and create jobs in Fayette County and throughout Pennsylvania.
But as the gas drilling industry continues to grow, Shuster stressed the importance of making sure companies comply with [...]
By LINDA HARRIS – Business editor
WEIRTON – A Louisiana-based company that dries drill cuttings for the shale industry has located a regional office in Weirton, creating as many as 30 new jobs by year’s end.
Environmental Drilling Solutions, LLC, based in Lafayette, is operating out of a building acquired in November along Cove Hill Road.
EDS Regional [...]
FLASHBACK: Then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in 2003: “We are not apt to return to earlier periods of relative abundance and low prices anytime soon. … Increased marginal supplies from abroad, while likely to notably damp the levels and volatility of American natural gas prices, would expose us to possibly insecure sources of foreign supply, [...]
MSC President: “We can’t afford not to get this right“
The region’s largest natural gas trade group has expressed optimism about President Obama’s support of shale gas production he mentioned Tuesday night in his State of the Union Address.
Prior to the president’s address, Kathryn Klaber, president of the Southpointe-based Marcellus Shale Coalition, which has nearly 300 [...]
Not all work is on drilling rigs
By Evamarie Socha The Daily Item
There’s no Marcellus Shale drilling here, but there are local businesses that provide ancillary services, or support to drilling companies.
MILTON — When Minuteman Environmental Services found a place in the Milton Industrial Park, it brought along about 150 jobs and delighted Milton borough manager [...]
By CASEY JUNKINS Staff Writer
WVU prof.: “Our employment rate for those graduating from our [shale gas] program is 100 percent.”
MORGANTOWN – The natural gas drilling boom sweeping the tri-state region is paying dividends for those earning graduate degrees in geology or geophysics from West Virginia University.
“I have kids who are going out and making as [...]
By Kathryn Klaber
“Leaders in Harrisburg would be wise to avoid the temptation of crafting policy in a vacuum and instead design a fee and regulatory structure that not only provides heightened safeguards to the public, but also a competitive investment climate.”
The Marcellus Shale has been, and continues to be, the source of enormous benefits for [...]
By Jennifer R. Vertullo
With questions about potential taxation and environmental impact making most of the headlines on the Marcellus shale front, local educators instead are focused on preparing generations of workers for an industry that has 390 million years in the making and decades left to run its course.
Administrators of the McKeesport Area Career and [...]
