Renewable Revolution

Ohio fracking boom has not brought jobs
By John Upton

Did you hear the joke about how fracking creates jobs?

We heard it, too. We heard it from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We heard it from the fracking industry. We heard it from the press.

Well here comes a punchline that’s darker than a fracker’s heart: In northeastern Ohio, where a fracking boom kicked off 2011, there was no more jobs growth last year than there was in the state’s unfracked western and southern regions.

That’s the conclusion of a new report [PDF] published by Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. The report was not peer-reviewed.

Article here:
http://grist.org/news/ohio-fracking-boom-has-not-brought-jobs/

Snippet:

The lack of jobs growth for Ohioans living on fracked (and now polluted) land appears to be yet another sad case of communities getting sucker punched after selling out to fossil fuel companies.  


There’s your punchline.
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"Ethical behavior among fossil fuel companies is inversely proportional to the economic power they have."
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