By Rich Bindell, senior writer and blogger at Food & Water Watch
From advertisements touting the environmental benefits of “clean, natural gas,” and energy independence, to the Penn State professor who claims that there is 50 trillion cubic feet of gas in the Marcellus Shale, the powerful energy lobby has aggressively positioned itself to give us nothing but good news about fracking for shale gas. But, the data that industry clings to most in its clarion call to drill and frack for shale gas—the number of jobs that will be created—may be their biggest exaggeration. Exposing the Oil and Gas Industry’s False Jobs Promise for Shale Gas Development, Food & Water Watch’s latest report on fracking, demonstrates how a cascade of flaws inflated one industry-backed job projection by 900 percent. They were just a little off. Welcome to Frackville.
