Ohio River Valley Institute: the shale gas boom failed to replace lost jobs in the Appalachia steel industry.
Since 2008, the Appalachian region showed a 1.6% gain in employment before those gains upturning into a 2.1% loss, good for the loss of 10,000 jobs as well as a 4.8% decline in the population in 2021.
EIA: peak production in the Appalachia will not be equaled again until 2045. Roughneck black and white A fresh study on Appalachian has revealed that the shale gas boom in those regions not only failed to replace losses from the steel […]
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