The Marcellus play is already moving in Eastern Ohio and Western PA, especially with the "wet gas" fields and the ethane they can pump up. Shell is ready to move on a big cracker facility in Beaver Cty. PA to work the ethane for chemicals. The Utica shale is only the next step -- there is still a lot of years of Marcellus to play out, just on the wet gas, let alone the dry gas that can last for a 100 years or more.
This is the best thing to happen to this region since Andy Carnegie, and of course, the usual suspects on the hard left are doing all they can to stop it. They won't stop it, without a dictatorship in Washington via the EPA. Too many good jobs in an area that really needs good jobs.
I'm not sure what you do, but for everything from geologist to roughneck or equipment operator, or even CDL driver, there are well paying opportunities here.
It's a good place to live and raise a family. It ain't at all like Philadelphia or Cleveland here. As Obama said, folks still cling to their guns, Bibles and families in this area. You would probably like it.
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