Fracking in Pennsylvania hasn't gone as well as some may think

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4. To clarify further

For those TX/OK workers who were legitimately being counted in PA job totals, the Fracking industry touted those as jobs created by Marcellus Shale drilling in PA. The problem with that is that a large portion of those jobs were filled by out-of-state workers (largely from TX & OK as you suggested but from other states as well). Many/most of these workers went back home after their initial job was done (could be 6-12 months) so in the end, very few jobs were really created for Pennsylvanians. The actual number of jobs created for PA residents could have been as low as just several hundred. Even if you go with the highest estimate, the number was likely in the low thousands (well under 10,000, and almost certainly even under 5,000). The supposed economic boon this was to create simply didn't happen. The only people who made out were the people who owned the land where they could do the drilling - those people made out like bandits - but it didn't significantly help the greater communities or the state as a whole.