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Utica shale and fracking news
- Muskingum district sells more water from reservoir for use in fracking
- Utica shale analyzed in Ohio
- Oil ventures could tap Utica shale in Stark, Tuscarawas counties
- Ohio is getting first cryogenic processing plant at Cadiz for natural gas from Utica shale
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Injection wells are efficient for liquid waste disposal from drilling, supporters say
- Gulfport aggressive on Ohio drilling prospects
- Anti-fracking amendment rejected in Youngstown
- New natural gas pipeline could run from Utica shale region through Akron area to Detroit, Ontario
- Anti-fracking amendment on ballot in Youngstown
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Chesapeake awaiting pipelines, processing plants for Utica shale natural gas
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 Youngstown Vindicator blog.
National Geographic's The Great Shale Rush.
The Ohio Environmental Council, a statewide eco-group based in Columbus.
Earthjustice, a national eco-group.
People's Oil and Gas Collaborative-Ohio, 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.
Eight protestors plead no contest in southern Ohio court
From Appalachian Resist!:
Eight people who participated in a February 19 protest at GreenHunter Energy's New Matamoras frack waste facility pled no contest to trespassing.
They were part of a group of 100 who protested the potential barging of frack waste on the Ohio River.On February 19th, protesters blocked the gates to the New Matamoras facility, turned away frack waste trucks, and unfurled a banner that read “GreenHunter: Making the Rich Richer and the Poor Sicker”.GreenHunter Energy, a Texas company which, in addition to the New Matamoras facility, owns several Class II injection wells in Washington and Athens Counties, and a fleet of trucks for transporting frack waste, is now pressuring the Coast Guard to allow barging of hazardous frack waste up and down the Ohio River.According to GreenHunter’s own estimates,each of their barges would carry almost half a million gallons of frack waste, monumentally increasing the influx of toxic waste brought in from out of state for injection in Ohio.
This frack waste has been shown by the EPA, the USGS, and other independent agencies to contain carcinogens and toxic heavy metals, as well as dangerous levels of radioactivity.
If even one frack-waste barge leaked or spilled, it would threaten the drinking water of 5 million people, as the Ohio River is a primary drinking water source for the region. According to Athens county resident Sasha White, “fracking waste is unlike other hazardous materials because it is a mix of unknown ingredients and disperses immediately in water. You can't clean it up.”
In response to the February 19th demonstration, Washington County resident and SEOFIG Organizer Betsy Cook said she wanted "to thank the protestors that came to the GreenHunter facility and risked getting arrested... they wanted Washington County people to hear a message: they're bringing this brine into Washington County and it’s coming from out of state. I was very appreciative that they took the time.It’s up to us, now that we know that information, to decide what we want to do."
Appalachia Resist! aims to stop fracking and the disposal of frack waste in Ohio and beyond.
