by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Clean Energy, Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click to view and download If there are some industries in which immense amounts of investment and economic growth can fail to produce significant increases in jobs and prosperity, might there be other kinds of industries and activities in which much...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Reports
Click to view and download Between 2008 and 2019, the twenty-two counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia that produce 90% of Appalachian natural gas badly trailed the nation in key measures of economic prosperity, including growth in jobs, personal...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity, Strategic Communications
Don’t look now, but it’s late-June – season of the summer solstice and the now annual announcement by PTTGC that, despite previous assurances, it must yet again delay a final investment decision on the proposed ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio. Recall that in...
by Sean O'Leary | May 26, 2021 | Blog Posts
There was a time when the sight of rows of office workers hammering away at their Friden adding machines would have sent me into paroxysms of delight because I, the Victor Comptometer salesman, had a new and better “programmable calculator” that could kick the...
by Sean O'Leary | May 18, 2021 | Blog Posts
At ORVI, we’ve documented the inability of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries to serve as engines for job growth and prosperity in Appalachia. Although these findings may be greeted with doubt, disbelief, and sometimes anger, we find that, once the numbers...
