Cincinnati’s economy and its capacity to attract new residents and jobs reflects the energy industry’s multi-billion dollar investment upriver to develop deep shale gas and shale oil reserves in eastern Ohio. The region’s shale gas and shale oil boom is reviving the state’s steel industry, generating a new petrochemical sector, creating thousands of jobs, and fostering new worry about risks to surface and groundwater from treating a tide of oil and gas wastewater.

Cincinnati’s economy and its capacity to attract new residents and jobs reflects the energy industry's multi-billion dollar investment upriver to develop deep shale gas and shale oil reserves in eastern Ohio. The region's shale gas and shale oil boom is reviving the state’s steel industry, generating a new petrochemical sector, creating thousands of jobs, and fostering new worry about risks to surface and groundwater from treating a tide of oil and gas wastewater.

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