Shale-Gas Drilling to Add 870,000 Jobs, cleanup to add even more

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Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — Producing natural gas from shale will support 870,000 U.S. jobs and add $118 billion to economic growth in the next four years, according to a report from IHS Global Insight.

Cleaning up the environmental mess afterwards will probably add another 50,000 jobs…..

via Shale-Gas Drilling to Add 870,000 Jobs by 2015, Report Says – Businessweek.

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