4Hoteliers has an interesting take on the impact of Marcellus drilling in Pennsylvania: "The 4,374 square-mile region comprising four northeastern Pennsylvania counties—Bradford, Lycoming, Susquehanna and Tioga—experienced a hotel industry RevPAR growth of 37 percent from 2007 to 2010, and grew another 22.2 percent through August of 2011. That’s not a misprint; rather, this remarkable growth is largely attributable to the exploitation of an old resource through the birth of a new industry: natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale."
Read the whole thing.