Did Ohio’s Utica Shale Provide Promised Jobs/Economic Benefits?

In the early days of the Marcellus and Utica Shale, a number of studies and predictions were made about how the industry would bring tens of thousands of jobs and inject billions of dollars into state economies. In Ohio, a Cleveland State University (CSU) report issued in 2012 predicted that Ohio’s then-growing fracking industry would add 66,000 direct and indirect jobs and $5 billion a year to the state’s economy by the end of 2014 (see New Study Predicts 65K Jobs in Ohio by 2014 from Utica Shale). Did those numbers pan out? What about since that time?

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