Newspaper Article Asks: What Happened to the Jobs Boom We Were Promised from Fracking?

[JPZenger]

http://www.timesonline.com/news/energy/what-boom-industry-pundits-claim-thousands-of-jobs-will-be/article_8ec3ff50-6e38-516a-b7a1-d7b758801d20.html

Excellent article. Excerpts:

The state lost 5,800 jobs last year, ranking 49th in the nation for job creation. The latest government data shows that Marcellus shale development brought about 6,362 jobs annually to the state, which accounts for less than 0.5 percent of the workforce. If the out-of-state license plates on energy company trucks are any evidence, there's seems to be a good deal of imported labor working in the Marcellus shale region.

...So where is the industry getting their numbers?... “(Groups like) the Marcellus Shale Coalition exists for a booster for the industry, creating a positive public presence and also advocating for industry and state legislators,” Price said. “When you see … estimates, especially when they come from an industry group like this one, they are often done in a way to help with the boosterism, not with an eye of what is going on -- more with an eye of we need to sell this industry.”

....He also doesn’t put much stock in the jobs created by what the Department of Industry and Labor calls ancillary industries, which accounts for more than 214,000 of more than 245,000 jobs some say the Marcellus has created. “I have no confidence that the ancillary industries are capturing anything,” he said.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. They went the same way as all those jobs that were going

to be created by the GWB tax cuts. They weren't really going to happen in the first place.

[enough]

2. Good article, thanks. (nt)

[blkmusclmachine]

3. .

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[glinda]

4. Maybe when clean-up from catastrophes come about.

[Frustratedlady]

5. You beat me to it. That was almost my first thought.

Did they ever get that mess in Arkansas cleaned up? I'm sure the odor will last through the summer.

[glinda]

8. I thought they didn't have to due to the fact it was not technically "oil". : > (

I could be wrong but that is one thing that I heard....

[femmocrat]

6. I bet I know...

Those 20,000 "actual" jobs that were created were offset by the furloughing of 20,000 teachers and school personnel.

Excellent article.

[John1956PA]

7. Gas line workers who arrived from other states are bunking down in Pennsylvania camp grounds.

Not even the motels in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the location of the newspaper which published the article, are seeing a large increase in business.