In Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, hydraulic fracturing is used to access natural gas. In North Dakota’s Bakken, they’re fracking for oil. North Dakota’s fracking boom is increasing domestic oil production – it’s now responsible for one in ten domestic barrels produced. Soon, some of that oil will be processed at Sunoco’s Philadelphia refinery. But as the Washington Post [...]
Every liberal’s favorite economist, Paul Krugman, has put together an interesting blog post comparing Pennsylvania’s energy economy to North Dakota’s. Both states have seen a major uptick in oil and gas drilling jobs, due to advances in hydraulic fracturing technology. But while North Dakota’s shale oil boom has kept unemployment there below 4 percent, Pennsylvania’s [...]
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