Sentences with phrase «jobs than the petroleum»
As the state oil and gas commission points out, only the cities of Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder have more jobs than the petroleum industry.
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Petroleum, engineering and construction workers are flooding into the Bakken for the high pay, and more than half the state's employment growth in those jobs took place in Williams County, with the town of Williston at the boom's center.
According to a recent study, in North Dakota, the petroleum industry supported more than 65,000 jobs in 2009 (up from 25,700 in 2005), and contributed more than $ 1 billion in direct and indirect local and state tax revenues.
Jobs lost in the coal and petroleum industries would be more than compensated for by growth in the renewable sectors, and in the end, there would be more than 24 million new jobs worldwide.