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Fracking jobs benefit Georgia, report says

By Dan Chapman
Sept 9, 2014

No commercial natural gas drilling takes place in Georgia, but that hasn’t kept the industry from touting the economic benefits to the state.

The American Petroleum Institute released Tuesday a survey listing the 18,505 “jobs supported by these (fracking) activities.” Fracking refers to hydraulic fracturing, a process to extract hard-to-get oil and gas from shale fields in Pennsylvania, Texas, North Dakota and beyond.

The institute projects 32,000 fracking-related jobs in 2020 and 39,000 by 2035.

Gas exploration is underway near Dalton, but market prices remain too low for the gas to be sold commercially.

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