Ohio is quickly becoming ground zero for natural gas debates:
While state regulators, industry officials and environmental advocates debate the benefits and pitfalls of horizontal shale-gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” the work to create Ohio’s shale-gas boom is going on in county offices across the state.
and...
Speculation abounds about what drilling will bring to Ohio. Many estimates are based on studies of drilling’s economic impact in Pennsylvania.
The July study from Penn State — the one that estimated that shale gas added $11.2 billion in economic value and supported 140,000 jobs — predicts that both figures will grow to $17.2 billion and 216,000 jobs by 2015.
via www.dispatch.com
Just a quick reaction, but I'm guessing those numbers are...well...wrong.
OK, maybe they're not wrong, but maybe tell an incomplete story?
How many jobs did drilling cost other industries?
