Raton Basin

is completed at the site the jobs drop to around 0.1% for full time jobs. A study from the university of Montana titled “ The local Economic Impacts of Natural Gas developed in Valle Vidal, New Mexico found that the employment level in Colorado Raton Basin was .12 jobs per well” It only takes about a year to drill and extract the gas from a well, after that the jobs drop to a minimum. When a big company moves to a new location local entrepreneurs start small trucking companies to transport the…