Report Reveals Lies about Shale Gas Job Creation

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This report from Food and Water Watch finds that while the natural gas industry is aggressively promoting hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and shale gas drilling as a way to create tens of thousands of highly paid jobs, the reality is such jobs rarely materialize and where there has been job creation, it has been limited at best. Whereas the flawed PPINYS study predicted 125 jobs created for every new shale gas well, independent analysis finds there have only been 2 created for each well, making the industry remarkably poor at job creation, given the billions of dollars invested. 

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