SOUTHU TICA EXCITES

摘要

The late afternoon sun glints off the Ohio River separating West Virginia from Ohio on a crisp autumn drive down Ohio Highway 7. Coal-fired power plants dot the silver shoreline every few miles, representing an industry—coal mining—that has historically buttressed the economies of this Ohio River Valley in Appalachia. The river also demarcates the eastern extent of Ohio's newest economic driver—the Utica shale—which could compete with coal as a fuel source for power generation in the region. It is certainly creating new jobs lost to the declining coal industry. "Eastern Ohio is seeing economic growth