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Posted on 4/20/14 at 12:54 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
If we had Louisiana gas and oil we would have a sub 5 unemployment too
Posted on 4/20/14 at 12:54 pm to GenesChin
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If we had Louisiana gas and oil we would have a sub 5 unemployment too
Posted on 4/20/14 at 12:56 pm to Duke
Or just go to a community college truck driving school CDL drivers with a haz mat endorsement are pulling down a buck and a quarter per year in the Dakotas. One of my dispatchers with driving experience just gave up the desk job to go double his pay. Second employee lost to this modern day gold rush. Happy for both of them!
Posted on 4/20/14 at 1:01 pm to GeauxPack81
The biggest thing for the future of Louisiana's economy is Natural Gas. The largest foreign manufacturing investment in US history (SASOL) is about to start construction in Westlake, LA. This facility will do many things but its main purpose is to convert natural gas to diesel. With the current LNG facility and future expansions along with numerous natural gas related projects, SWLA will likely be the capital of Natural Gas processing and exportation in North America. Natural Gas is the future of Fossil Fuels and energy and Louisiana will be the center piece of this future. Everyone seems to focus on New Orleans and Baton Rouge, but a large economic shift is and will occur towards the west to Lafayette and Lake Charles.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 1:12 pm to LSU2a
No doubt there are huge things happening in the Southwest. The Natural Gas boom will serve to help industry along the River Parishes too. I'm not just excited about NOLA/BR but the entire Gulf Coast from Houston to Pensacola...
Posted on 4/20/14 at 1:16 pm to NC1406
The boom in the Dakotas is no joke either. Towns tripling in population in five years. There's some serious money to be had for anyone brave enough to deal with those winters. If I were single, I'd seriously consider putting my engineering degree (well future degree) to use up there.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 1:51 pm to Duke
Yeah energy industry is really booming in the Dakotas, I have a neighbor that's up there working making some great money. Just paid cash for a brand new truck...must be nice. I've worked jobs with similar labor and daily exertion making much less money.
As for Mississippi, the biggest growing industries are aerospace and automotive. Both of which MSU has helped recruit to MS. Raytheon just opened a huge facility in Forest to produce early warning radar systems for the military. Eurocopter is producing helicopters for the Army at GTR airport, and Nissan has one of the largest auto plants in North America, at Canton. Toyota just opened their plant near Tupelo. That's just a handful.
As for Mississippi, the biggest growing industries are aerospace and automotive. Both of which MSU has helped recruit to MS. Raytheon just opened a huge facility in Forest to produce early warning radar systems for the military. Eurocopter is producing helicopters for the Army at GTR airport, and Nissan has one of the largest auto plants in North America, at Canton. Toyota just opened their plant near Tupelo. That's just a handful.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 1:56 pm to Reservoir dawg
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Yeah energy industry is really booming in the Dakotas, I have a neighbor that's up there working making some great money. Just paid cash for a brand new truck...must be nice. I've worked jobs with similar labor and daily exertion making much less money.
Yeah but you have to live in North Dakota for a spell. Like offshore work, you're paid for the terrible location. If you can suck it up for a year though, best money you can get at without some very specialized education.
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Toyota just opened their plant near Tupelo.
I feel like that plant was suppose to open for at least five years now.
I'm rooting like hell for Mississippi. Y'all are just starting from farther behind than any of us.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 2:35 pm to GeauxPack81
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Then once they build the railroad from BR to NOLA both cities will be booming along with all the area between them. Not to mention that the coast has always been well off with it's resources. Whole state doing work.
The last thing I read about that railroad was pure comedy. Something about cutting the speed in half to save money, putting in ten stops btw BR and NOLA, and still claiming the trip would only take an hour.
We need to see Houston to Dallas do it right before we make an attempt.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 2:36 pm to Duke
Oil sands is massive as well. A lot of that going on in Canada.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 4:16 pm to Duke
He's been working up there for several years.
Mississippi is leading the south in aerospace job growth. We've had Nissan here since '03. That plant is 2 or 3 times the size of the new Toyota plant and they're adding on. Northrop/Grumman also makes about a third of all the warships for the US Navy at Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula. MS is also about to announce another major auto plant, coming soon. We're definitely not behind some of the other southern states in these two sectors. AL and SC lead in auto industry.
Mississippi is leading the south in aerospace job growth. We've had Nissan here since '03. That plant is 2 or 3 times the size of the new Toyota plant and they're adding on. Northrop/Grumman also makes about a third of all the warships for the US Navy at Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula. MS is also about to announce another major auto plant, coming soon. We're definitely not behind some of the other southern states in these two sectors. AL and SC lead in auto industry.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 4:27 pm to Reservoir dawg
I wish Louisiana could get in on some of the firearms manufacturers that are leaving the northeast.
Sorry, not leaving, fleeing the northeast.
Sorry, not leaving, fleeing the northeast.
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