I don't know that it is a "story". It's a funhouse ride corporate puffpiece on the prodigal corporations supposedly returning as saviors to areas where sufficient deregulation, labor discipline, and the right kind of corruption have taken place. Mix in a healthy dose of fear-based nationalism and myopic "if you can't mine or drill it, you've got to frack it" narrative and voile: A resurgent American Pheonix based on a low wage/no wage labor force, a belligerent foreign policy, and a degraded environment. What's new here?
BOTTOMLESS HOPELESSNESS FROM PROLE!