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Boom and doom
Boom and Doom: Gas has brought riches, and trouble, to America's least-populated state
The Economist | May 31, 2007
A few years ago, Pinedale seemed destined to become a summer retreat for the rich. Impressed by its Wild-West Main Street, and its spectacular position between three mountain ranges, buyers were snapping up second homes in the area.
The natural gas boom has swelled the population of Sublette county, which grew by 24% between 2000 and 2006, faster than anywhere else in Wyoming. Count the “man camps”—trailer parks where itinerant gas workers collapse, exhausted, at the end of long shifts—and it has increased by about 40% since the boom began.
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