It turns out that fracking not only is an environmental disaster, but also a jobs disaster. Fracking is the practice of drilling into shale formations in the earth and blowing them apart to release natural gas. The practice also releases a number of toxic chemicals into ground water, poisoning that which we must have for life.
The corrupt energy industry and the incredibly inept Gov. Corbett of Pennsylvania have gotten away with this eventually suicidal practice by telling us about all the jobs fracking will produce.
The lies that can claim our lives.
A brand new report shows that since 2011 Pennsylvania with its Wild West style fracking boom is 50th, yes 50th in the nation in job creation.
If my most basic arithmetic serves, that puts us last in the nation in job creation during Corbett’s term while natural gas fracking has been busily destroying the water, homes, and land of our own people.
We have the Keystone Research Center and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to thank for this brand new information.
Corbett has done everything out of the radical right-wing playbook to create jobs. He has imposed state and budget austerity, given the natural gas industry all it wants, and tried to destroy public sector unions–all morally corrupt and economically inept failures.
And our people suffer.
Stephen Herzenberg of Keystone Research Center said, “[t]ens of thousands of layoffs in education, and the state’s postponed investment in
infrastructure and delayed acceptance of Medicaid expansion dollars delivered a body blow to Pennsylvania’s
recovery.”
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