Environmentalists and natural gas drillers will likely never agree on hydraulic fracturing or on whether taxes should be paid. But it’s hard to debate the number of jobs the industry has created.

The Marcellus Shale Coalition, a group of state drillers, has jumped on a recent report by the state Department of Labor and Industry outlining the number of jobs brought in by the Marcellus Shale play. The organization highlighted the government’s main findings: