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Utica shale and fracking news
- Speedy review of gas export process pledged by energy secretary
- Map, details emerge about proposed $1.5 billion gas pipeline that would cross swaths of area counties
- Kasich revising Ohio drilling-tax plan
- Companies facing state charges over illegal brine dumping in Ohio’s Belmont County
- Ohio accuses company of illegally dumping shale drilling brine waste
- Colorado energy processor expands in Ohio
- Shale money could result in reduced assessments for 500,000 property owners
- Security heavy at injection well meeting at Wingfoot Lake
- Ohio injection well operator fights state action
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.
Environmental groups want tighter Ohio injection rules
Two Ohio environmental groups want tighter state rules on injection wells.
Ohio needs to do more because of the influx of brine waste into Ohio from Pennsylvania and from the earthquakes reported at an injection well in Mahoning County, said the Columbus-based Ohio Environmental Council and the Ohio Environmental Law Center said.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management has issued draft rules on the injection wells.
The two groups cited what attorney Trent Dougherty were "four overarching flaws" plus five omissions in the state's plan.
The biggest problems are: too much discretion is given to well operators to perform or not perform tests; only new wells are subject to continuous monitoring and other requirements, not existing wells; there is too little local community and government notice and comment; and the rules look only at migration and earthquakes, not other issues.
The groups have submitted their recommendations to the state.
Ohio has 196 permitted injection wells.
Locally, Portage and Stark counties are tied for No. 2 in the state with 16 wells each. Washington County (Marietta) has the most injection wells.
Click here to read more about the injection well issue.
