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"But some of the most intensely mobile places in America — North Dakota, Northeast Utah, West Texas — are not full of large cities and tech startups. They’re full of natural resources that are being extracted as fast as these places can import the young (mostly) men to do that job. San Francisco and Seattle may have tech, but Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming have the Uintah Basin; New York may have finance, but North Dakota has the Bakken shale." "All that new wealth comes at a cost — and not just to the planet. Those high-paying fracking jobs are dangerous, the workers expendable, and the work itself tenuous. Oh yeah, and some experts even think the whole booming industry might be an economic bubble." grist.org/climate-energy/gas-fields-not-cities-are-americas-land-of-opportunity/ via Susie Cagle
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 16:09:36 +0000

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