http://energytomorrow.org/blog/tale-of-three-states/#/type/all

“Residents of the Empire State remain spectators to the shale energy revolution ongoing in Pennsylvania and getting under way in Ohio. The energy-rich Marcellus shale formation that has spawned so much growth in Pennsylvania reaches up in to New York as well. But the state has had a drilling moratorium in place since 2008 – in effect, a moratorium on shale energy jobs, shale energy economic stimulus and shale energy revenue for government. In February, unemployment was 8.4 percent (compared to 7.7 percent nationally), and unemployment in the state’s non-metro upstate counties was 10.4 percent.”