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State Promises Quarterly Reports On Fracking Jobs

Monday, February 11, 2013 at 5:54 PM

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Evets Oil and Gas workers weld a pipe to transport natural gas.  Evets opened a new plant in 2012 that created new jobs.

There’s a lot of controversy over the oil and gas drilling method called horizontal fracking, but there’s one thing that supporters and critics agree on --- the industry is growing in Ohio. The Department of Job and Family Services has put out the first of what promises to be a series of quarterly reports on that growth. Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen has details.

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Government/Politics, Miscellaneous, Energy, Shale

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