The safe and steady development of clean-burning natural gas in Pennsylvania’s portion of the Marcellus Shale has the potential to create an additional 212,000 new jobs over the next 10 years on top of the thousands already being generated all across the Commonwealth.
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Financial Times Everybody's favourite moment in The Graduate is when the film's hero is cornered by one of his parents' friends. The older man's advice to Benjamin Braddock consists of just one word - "plastics". Something similar keeps happening to me at international conferences. I will be minding my own business, when a delegate will get up with a gleam in his eye and announce portentously - "shale gas!"
Marcellus shale creates jobs. “The mile-deep Marcellus shale formation covers all or part of seven states and is estimated to contain enough gas to handle the country's needs for decades. "We felt we needed to hold a meeting like this for a long time," said Katy Klaber, executive director of the Marcellus Shale Coalition. "We hear the macroeconomic view about the thousands of jobs created by Marcellus shale drilling, but these examples show that someone locally has a job due to the Marcellus impact."
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader SCRANTON – The president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition on Monday told regional community leaders that development of the Marcellus Shale not only will help the economy on a large scale, but it’s just as important to recognize the effects on the area business owners and the area job market.
Scranton Times-Tribune The state's growing natural gas industry offers expanding industrial and employment opportunities in the region, the head of an industry trade group said Thursday.
Towanda Review Some state representatives from around the Commonwealth got an idea of the tremendous impact the Marcellus Shale natural gas play has had on Bradford County during a public hearing in Ulster Thursday.
Earlier this week, the Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC) joined local elected officials and leaders from the steel, trucking and manufacturing sectors to discuss the positive and growing impact that responsible shale gas development is having on the economic fortunes of the Commonwealth.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Jason Norris, of Dura-Bond Industries Inc. in Export, knows firsthand the economic impact of drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale formation.
DUQUESNE, Pa. – Earlier today, natural gas, steel manufacturing and transportation industry leaders from across the region joined local elected officials at the United States Steel Corporation’s Mon Valley Works training center to discuss the positive and growing impact that responsible Marcellus Shale gas development is having on the Commonwealth.
