Comments on: Has Natural Gas Industry Employment Increased in West Virginia? Yes https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2012/06/16/is-natural-gas-employment-growing-yes/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: S. Tom Bond https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2012/06/16/is-natural-gas-employment-growing-yes/#comment-9807 S. Tom Bond Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:31:04 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=5228#comment-9807 Subject: Ted Boettner's comments on natural gas job growth   The article above in Frack Check by Ted Boettner deserves some comment.  The section of the graph representing "Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction" is not "steady" employment, but a series of intermittent jobs, largely done by out of state people, who send a very significant part of their earnings home. The "Support activities for oil and gas" is a category which largely depends on construction.  The two categories which have continuous, long term employment both declined. So the Intelligencer article was not so far off, and once again we see the long term economic benefits of the drilling industry to the Mountain State are minimal. Subject: Ted Boettner’s comments on natural gas job growth
 
The article above in Frack Check by Ted Boettner deserves some comment.  The section of the graph representing “Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction” is not “steady” employment, but a series of intermittent jobs, largely done by out of state people, who send a very significant part of their earnings home. The “Support activities for oil and gas” is a category which largely depends on construction. 

The two categories which have continuous, long term employment both declined.

So the Intelligencer article was not so far off, and once again we see the long term economic benefits of the drilling industry to the Mountain State are minimal.

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