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Article: Region sees beginning of widespread energy boom

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This time, there are no gushers spilling oil everywhere. No farm villages that become boom towns overnight, only to empty out as wells start running dry.

Western Pennsylvania is at the start of what could be a longer, more widespread energy boom and period of influence than the frenzied time 150 years ago this August when America's oil industry was founded in the Titusville area.

This time, a half-dozen industries are taking part as the region tries to retake a key role in filling the nation's energy needs.

Natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale region covering more than half the state and parts of New York and West Virginia has slowed somewhat from last year because of lower prices, ...

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