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November 19, 2012

Gas Boom County Strives for Economic Afterglow

John Schwartz, New York Times


Forbes

. . .This was not an emergency, though it looked like one. It was a “burn exercise” for safety workers in the oil and gas industry, part of a new course at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. . .

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