The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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CHK--I found no discussion of its UTICA holdings on this board:

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=48626776

CHK's lease holdings on 1.25 million acres are said to be next to, or underneath, Marcellus. Said to extend from Cleveland south through Youngstown down to W.Va. Cramer had a very interesting interview with McClendon on 8/1//2011 on CNBC.

Were these folks merely lucky?:

>>>...France's Vallourec & Mannesmann Holdings Inc., one of the world's largest makers of steel tubes for the energy market, has decided to build the plant here next to an existing facility for two main reasons. Youngstown has an experienced steelmaking work force and the city is at the door of the Marcellus Shale, a natural-gas basin beneath New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio....