Frackalachia Update: Peak Natural Gas and the Economic Implications for Appalachia

by Sean O'Leary | Aug 22, 2023 | Natural Gas, Reports, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy

Download report Download summary Download toolkit   By the first quarter of 2020, EQT Corporation, the nation’s largest domestic producer of natural gas, was supplying more than 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. Just a decade earlier, EQT’s output...

Misplaced Faith: How Policymakers’ Belief in Natural Gas is Driving Rural Pennsylvania Into an Economic Dead End

by Sean O'Leary | Aug 8, 2022 | Natural Gas, Reports

Download report Download digital toolkit   Pennsylvania policymakers of both parties are driving efforts to expand the state’s natural gas economy despite mounting evidence which shows that the decade-long production boom has failed to stem or even reduce job and...

Jobs and equitable transition: Bridging the chasm between rhetoric and action

by Sean O'Leary | May 26, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy

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...

“What’s the alternative?”: Answering the hardest question asked by workers and communities that feel threatened by energy transition

by Sean O'Leary | May 18, 2021 | Blog Posts, Shared Prosperity and Clean Energy

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...

Misdirection: How we’re misled about the natural gas boom’s economic impacts

by Sean O'Leary | Mar 10, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas

The Ohio River Valley Institute’s recent report on the nearly complete failure of the Appalachian natural gas boom to deliver on promises of jobs and prosperity in the region’s major gas-producing counties triggered a great deal of blowback from the industry and...