What's your take on this, Frank? Another oil price spike in the making?
Obama USDA delays shale drilling, up to 200k jobs
by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer
The Washington Examiner
President Obama's United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing...
...The Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) recently estimated that drilling in the Utica shale, which is affected by the suspension of the mineral lease auctions, would produce up 204,500 jobs by 2015...
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