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Utica shale and fracking news
- Number of drilling rigs down in Pennsylvania, up in West Virginia
- Gas drillers wrangle over N.Y. limitations, bans
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B&W executives see bright prospects in coal power plants despite natural gas competition
- Wooster gas drilling company countersues landowners
- Ohio aims to triple inspectors for oil, gas wells
- Poll: Ohioans like income tax cut that would be paid for by drillers
- Ohio panel to review rules on gas wells, drilling
- Federal rules on fracking allow chemical disclosure after drilling
- Wyoming got EPA to delay fracking finding
- Turmoil continues at Chesapeake Energy
Utica and Marcellus shale web sites
Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management State agency Web site.ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management. State drilling permits. List is updated weekly.
ODNR Division of Geological Survey.
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Ohio State University Extension.
Ohio Farm Bureau.
Ohio Oil and Gas Association, a Granville-based group that represents 1,500 Ohio energy-related companies.
Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program.
Energy In Depth, a trade group.
Marcellus and Utica Shale Resource Center by Ohio law firm Bricker & Eckler.
Utica Shale, a compilation of Utica shale activities.
Landman Report Card, a site that looks at companies involved in gas and oil leases.FracFocus, a compilation of chemicals used in fracking individual wells as reported voluntarily by some drillers.
Chesapeake Energy Corp,the Oklahoma-based firm is the No. 1 driller in Ohio.
Rig Count Interactive Map by Baker Hughes, an energy services company.
Shale Sheet Fracking, a blog by reporter Karl Henkel of the Youngstown Vindicator.
National Geographic's The Great Shale Rush.
The Ohio Environmental Council, a statewide eco-group based in Columbus.
Earthjustice, a national eco-group.
Network for Oil and Gas Accountability (NEOGAP), a grass-roots group in Northeast Ohio.
Concerned Citizens of Medina County, a grass-roots group.
No Frack Ohio, a Columbus-based grass-roots group.
Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat by ProPublica, an online journalism site.
Pipeline, blog from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Marcellus shale drilling.
Allegheny Front, environmental public radio for Western Pennsylvania.
Matt Watson blog on Ohio S.B. 315
Here is today's blog on Ohio's Senate Bill 315 as posted by Matt Watson of the Environmental Defense Fund:
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Activists unhappy with Senate approval of S.B. 315
Ohio activists were unhappy on Tuesday when the Ohio Senate approved Senate Bill 315, Gov. John Kasich's energy bill.
Critics called it a "shameful energy bill."
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Activists call for California ban on fracking
On Tuesday, activists in California called for a ban on fracking.
The announcement came from Environment California, Citizens Coalition for a Safe Community, Grasroots Coalition, filmmaker Josh Fox and the national consumer group Food & Water Watch.
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Aqua Ohio to provide water for shale drilling
The Youngstown Vindicator reported on Tuesday that Aqua Ohio has leased land in the Youngstown suburb of Struthers to sell water to drilling companies for hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
Trucks hauling up to 3,000 gallons can fill up from Hamilton Lake and haul the untreated water to drilling sites in eastern Ohio's Utica shale.
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Star-studded Albany anti-fracking rally held
Musicians Natalie Merchant. Joan Osborne, Citizen Cope and Tracy Bonham headlined a star-studded anti-fracking concert on Tuesday in Albany, N.Y.
The event was organized by New Yorkers Against Fracking.
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