Recent Fracking News
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 2:11PM Despite the abrupt end of a previous project that left communities on the hook for millions of dollars, the non-profit American Municipal Power says it's getting broad buy-in from members on its next endeavor. ideastream's Bill Rice reports the city of Cleveland signed on earlier this week.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 1:39PM A compilation or articles, studies and websites that suggest that argiculture and industrilization due to natural gas drilling can not co-exist.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 11:28AM If the state strengthens home-rule authority, municipalities will have less risk of being sued and seeing their local laws overturned in court, he said.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 1:59PM Opponents -- which include the Mohican-Loudonville Visitors Bureau, Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation and other groups -- say the state parks historically have been off-limits to drilling and allowing it would harm vistas and groundwater.
Democratic amendments on where and how drilling would be done failed to gain traction. The party holds 10 seats in the 33-member chamber.
Friday, June 17, 2011 at 9:32AM Ohio: In 2007, there was an explosion of a water well and contamination of at least 22 other drinking water wells in Bainbridge Township after hydraulic fracturing of a nearby natural gas well owned by Ohio Valley Energy Systems. According to the State investigation, one of the contributing factors to this incident is that: “the frac communicated directly with the well bore and was not confined within the “Clinton” reservoir.”
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:31PM In other states and increasingly in Ohio, natural gas companies have been offering residents up to several thousand dollars per acre for oil and gas leases. But some who have signed the leases have reported illness due to the chemicals getting into their water supplies. In isolated instances, property owners in other states have reported their tap water catching fire due to chemicals infiltrating their wells.
"If people take what the industry offers when they show up on their doorsteps, they're not getting (a deal), even if (fracking) is something they want to do," Phillips said of the leases. "They're not getting as good a deal, and it's allowing a lot more profit to the company and less to the landowners."
