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Hazardous Air Pollutants Detected Near Fracking Sites

Bloomburg News By Lisa Song - Dec 3, 2012 InsideClimateNews.org -- For years, the controversy over natural gas drilling has focused on the water and air quality problems linked to hydraulic fracturing, the process where chemicals are blasted deep underground to release tightly bound natural gas deposits. But a new study reports that a set of chemicals called non-methane hydrocarbons, or NMHCs, ...

Appalachia Resist!

This action follows the action camp hosted by Appalachia Resist! which served as a training for an ever widening group of community members, including farmers, landowners, and families who want to join the resistance to injection wells and the fracking industry in Southeast Ohio. With this action, Appalachia Resist! sends the message to the oil and gas industry that our ...

Athens Countians Respond to Injection Well Permit Application with Demand for Public Hearing

For Immediate Release Athens (OH) County Fracking Action Network, acfan.org Sept. 12, 2012 contact: Roxanne Groff, 740-707-3610, grofski@earthlink.net, acfanohio@gmail.com A public notice for an Athens County injection well permit application for the Atha well on Rte. 144 near Frost, OH, has been posted. Citizens have until Sept. 28 to send in comments and concerns about the application ...

Hats off to Cincinnati

August 1, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Alison Auciello, Food & Water Watch, (513) 394-6257, aauciello@fwwatch.org / Council Member Laure Quinlivan, City of Cincinati, (513) 352-5303, Laure.Quinlivan@cincinnati-oh.gov Cincinnati Becomes First Ohio City to Ban Injection Wells CINCINNATI, Ohio—Following today’s unanimous vote by the Cincinnati City Council to ban injection wells associated with ...

National forest's 'open forum' didn't instill much confidence

To the Editor: Wayne National Forest leaders and spokespersons expressed satisfaction with Wednesday's "open forum" on high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF) on forest lands: a first in their history. It's hard to understand this satisfaction. Anne Carey, Wayne supervisor, said the forum was intended to inform; public participants disputed the "facts." Wayne spokesperson Gary Chancey repeatedly listed participating Wayne ...

Legendary oilman calls for tougher controls on fracking

Our energy writer Elizabeth Souder has an eagle’s eye and found this really interesting item. Legendary oilman and Barnett Shale fracking expert George Mitchell has told Forbes that the federal government should do more to regulate hydraulic fracturing. That’s right, an energy guy calling for more rules on fracking. And his reason for more regulation is pretty straightforward: “Because if they don’t do ...

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Thirst for fracking draws water from local streams

In February, residents of southern Stark County were surprised to find giant pumps sitting next to Indian Run, a small stream that flows into Sandy Creek.

A contractor was taking water from Indian Run for Chesapeake Energy and a nearby well in Osnaburg Township. There was a water intake device in a small pool in the stream. There were two pumps and lots of hoses.

More recently, similar hoses were found in the Licking River near the Knox-Licking county line where Devon Energy, another driller, was taking 3 million gallons of water for its well fracking.

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Water sale for fracking

Amid some concerns from residents, the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District is moving forward with a study to determine if three of the district's reservoirs can withstand the sale of water for use in fracking wells.

In the hydraulic fracturing process, commonly called fracking, water is injected into the ground along with a combination of sand and chemicals to shatter the rock formation and release natural gas.

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