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Activists Blast Officials; Council Delays Leasing OK
Thursday, September 20, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – In a packed chamber Wednesday night, City Council gave a second reading to a measure that would allow the Board of Control to seek competitive bids and lease land the city owns for oil and gas extraction.
Council also gave a second reading to a resolution calling for “stringent regulations by the state of Ohio on oil and natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing,” better known as fracking.
City Officials Return Fire on Fracking Critics
Thursday, September 20, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Mayor Charles Sammarone and councilwomen Annie Gillam and Janet Tarpley listened patiently Wednesday night, until the end of a lengthy meeting of City Council, before returning fire at their critics in the packed chambers.
2,000 Feet Above the Emerging Shale Industry
Wednesday, September 19, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- From two thousand feet above, flying over Mahoning, Columbiana and Carroll counties, it’s a challenge to keep count.
Looking out the window on the left side of a small seaplane, we see a well pad waiting for a rig. From the window on the right side, we see bulldozers moving dirt, piling gravel for the well pad being built. Outside the front window, looking to our pilot’s left, we see a drilling rig at work on another site. Then, to the right, two wellheads standing alone on a well pad – a site either in production or waiting to be fracked.
EnerVest Selling Utica Acres; Sale Could Bring $6 Billion
Monday, September 17, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The 58 wells that Chesapeake Energy Corp. has drilled in eastern Ohio’s Utica shale play will soon have a new co-owner, now that EnerVest Ltd. has announced it will sell drilling rights to 539,000 acres.