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Utica shale and fracking news
- Ohio injection well operator fights state action
- 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
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.
Lawmakers want thorough reviews of LNG projects
From Platts:
Washington: A group of 20 U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers has writetn a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu urging him to thoroughly evaluate the environmental impacts of liquefied natural gas exports before handing out more permits.
"We are concerned that exporting more LNG would lead to greater hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking,' activity thus threatening the health of local residents and jobs," said the letter from the 20 Democrats, led by Jared Polis of Colorado and Maurice Hinchey of New York.
The lawmakers requested that the Department of Energy prepare an environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act to assess whether exports would increase risks from gas extraction.
"Even though exporting nearly one-third of our domestic gas production certainly constitutes a major federal action, the DOE has not yet conducted an EIS," the letter said.
"Such a review would inform your agency's decision and address the environmental and health impacts in our communities that may result from the opportunity to increase LNG exports," the lawmakers added
On the other side of the debate, a group of Western lawmakers on Monday wrote to Chu urging him to quickly finish a study on the macroeconomic impacts of LNG exports and approve additional export permits.
DOE has received applications to export a combined 27.4 Bcf/d of gas as LNG to free trade agreement countries, and to export a combined 19.7 Bcf/d of gas to non-FTA countries, according to its website.
