Charleston Gazette-Mail (USA):
Steve White: Pipeline projects will create plenty of good jobs
3 March 2017
The recent U.S. energy revolution, courtesy of high-tech advancements in hydraulic fracturing, has made U.S. manufacturing more competitive globally, lowering costs for energy-intensive industries while increasing output, employment and exports.Those aren’t my conclusions. They come from the London School of Economics and Political Science. “For every two jobs created in direct relation to fracking, this indirect effect adds more than one additional job elsewhere in the economy,” the report says. In fact, manufacturing exports have increased about 10 percent, on average, since the energy boom began