11 Incredible Charts On Pennsylvania’s Booming Shale Energy Industry

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The shale industry remains phenomenally controversial. Not a week goes by without a study proving or disproving whether hydraulic fracking of the sedimentary rock poses dangers to area residents — and then is immediately contested by the opposing side.

Without acknowledging or accepting which side is correct (we believe both sides have strong cases), we wanted to present the economic effects the booming Marcellus shale resource industry has had on Pennsylvania’s economy. 

Penn State has set up a website devoted entirely to the Marcellus, and we pulled the most interesting charts from their compiled reports. 

Employment in the industry continues to be explosive

Month-over-month employment growth statewide was +0.1%, while year-over-year was +0.8%. In the industry, month-over-month employment growth was +1.3%, while year-over year growth was +20.7%. 

Source: marcellus.psu.edu

In some regions growing by hundreds of orders of magnitude

And the jobs available are pretty diverse

The industry requires almost as many lawyers as landmen. (CDL stands for jobs requiring commercial driver’s licenses.)

Source: marcellus.psu.edu

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