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According to a recent article in theĀ PA Environment Daily blog, Laura Fisher, senior vice president of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, estimated that 70 percent of the drilling workforce in Pennsylvania is from out-of-state. Using that figure, the blog estimates that "there are easily over 10,000 gas workers in Pennsylvania from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming."

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