Little, rural Bradford County located in northeastern Pennsylvania is seeing a boom in new jobs: According to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and the Center for Workforce Information and Analysis, Bradford County led the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in net job growth from March of 2009 to March 2010. According to the Northern Tier [...]
A recent meeting of the Wyoming County (PA) Chamber of Commerce saw over 400 members, mostly from area small businesses, networking and listening to presenters who have already reaped financial rewards from Marcellus drilling activity in the area. Two examples: Early on as the industry developed in Susquehanna County about 18 months ahead of Wyoming [...]
Companies involved in drilling, processing and transporting Marcellus Shale gas in Pennsylvania are looking to contract with local businesses and hire local people to work for them. On the list are… Contractors for: clearing land constructing well pads setting up rigs running wirelines hauling waste hauling dirt mechanical work civil work electrical work environmental surveyors [...]
Depending on your viewpoint, one of the benefits (or drawbacks) of an increase in drilling activity is the rise in rental prices for apartments and houses. The borough of Wellsboro in Tioga County, PA (population about 3,300) is experiencing a real estate boom due to drilling. Prices for apartments around Wellsboro have doubled: [Real Estate [...]
MDN previously reported on two short-line railroads that have seen their prospects dramatically improve with Marcellus drilling activity in Pennsylvania—the Wellsboro & Corning Railroad and the Reading & Northern Railroad. You can now add six more short-lines to the list—all of them owned by the North Shore Railroad Company. A system of six railroads in [...]
Must be something in the water in Kane, Pennsylvania. They just keep having great ideas! Not long ago we learned that the Kane Borough Sewer Authority is going sell (for money!) sewer water to drillers in the Marcellus, which will create a nice, new revenue stream for the township. Now they’re talking about possibly converting [...]
Chalk up the resurrection of another short-line railroad to drilling in the Marcellus Shale. As MDN previously reported, the Wellsboro & Corning Railroad tripled its cargo traffic in just a few short years from drillers who need carloads of sand. We now have word of a rail line brought back from the dead in Luzerne [...]
The Sunday, March 28 Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (Broome County, NY) devoted a number of pages to the issue of drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The chief writer for the P&SB on these matters, Tom Wilbur, is anti-drilling, and it shows in his articles. As people on the anti-drilling side of the debate often do, [...]
Beyond random speculation, is there really any way to know, scientifically and accurately, just how many drilling-related jobs are being created in the Marcellus Shale? Yes there is! And two of the speakers at the Natural Gas Development Summit held in Binghamton on March 18th at the Regency Hotel, who have extensively studied the issue, [...]
An article in the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader reveals this interesting information about Encana’s activity in Pennsylvania: Encana Oil and Gas Inc. – has leased 25,000 acres of property in Luzerne County. The land is mainly on the north side of Route 118 in Fairmount, Ross, Lake and Lehman townships. Encana so far has obtained permits [...]
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