Last week Kathryn Klaber, Chief Executive Officer of the Marcellus Shale Coalition took exception to the story “Fast, yet comfortable: The life of a drilling project manager.”
In the story, Greg Hess, a project manager for REI Drilling Inc, stated:
“A majority of them are high school dropouts and/or convicts,” he said, adding, “Even drillers themselves can make that sort of money.”
According to Hess, workers without college degrees can make more than those who have bachelor’s degrees and still owe thousands in student loans.
However, there’s a downside, Hess said. Many spend it as fast as they make it.
“They blow it,” Hess said. “When they have a week off, they will spend it all in places, like Las Vegas on drugs and partying.”
Kathryn Klaber, CEO of the Marcellus Shale Coalition was offended: “As local representatives of the region’s growing natural gas industry, we are deeply offended by the baseless and inflammatory comments made by an out-of-state drilling contractor in a March 7 article “Fast, yet comfortable: The life of a drilling project manager.”
The Bakken region of Montana has too many jobs, too much money is boosting the economy and the legislature is going to do something about it.
The Montana Legislature is hard at work to KILL JOBS and the local economy. They are looking at ways to prevent prostitution in eastern Montana communities teeming with people who have come to find work in the Bakken oil boom.
How many times have we heard Klaber, and other industry people divert attention from serious risks and hazards of oil and gas activities by shouting “LOOK AT ALL THE JOBS. JOBS JOBS JOBS”.
Much has been claimed by the oil and gas industry with regard to job creation from shale development. It has been stated repeatedly that as many as 600,000 jobs will be generated by shale production. But these numbers are based on economic models which, when assessed, were found to include jobs such as strippers and prostitutes in the mix.
And now Montana wants to kill those jobs? Will Pennsylvania follow suit and also kill these jobs?
I think Klaber will need to find a new talking point…..or a new job?
See also:
- Strip Joints and Prostitutes: Here’s what America’s Natural Gas Alliance did for you today
- Towns see crime, carousing surge amid gas boom
- Oil Boomtowns See Rise In Drunken Driving And Bar Fights, Threatening To Overwhelm Law Enforcement
- How Far Would You Go for a Comeback?
- FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtown
© 2013 by Dory Hippauf
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I bet Greg is in deep doody for telling the truth.
Big unanswered question: If Montana kill prostitution jobs does that mean its government is out of a job?
Hey, now, strippers need to eat, too.