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Vallourec's 'Integrated' Process Explained at Expo
Thursday, September 12, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Nearly 1,000 people spent part of Thursday walking through the aisles at the Covelli Centre exhibition floor, where they looked at the displays of 95 vendors and sponsors eager to capture new business from the Youngstown Ohio Utica & Natural Gas Conference & Expo.
The daylong trade show, which cost $100 per person to attend, is the third Young conference convened by the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber.
Study Calculates Cost of Mountaintop Coal Removal
Thursday, September 12, 2013KENT, Ohio -- To meet current U.S. coal demand through surface mining, an area of the Central Appalachians the size of Washington, D.C., would need to be mined every 81 days. That’s about 68 square miles -- or roughly an area equal to 10 city blocks mined every hour.
So reports a new study by scientists at Kent State University, Duke University and the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies.
Community Bill of Rights Foes Withdraw Objections
Saturday, September 07, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The Mahoning County Board of Elections meeting was packed Friday evening as 30 or so who attended braced for a fight to put an initiative on the November ballot that would ban hydraulic fracturing within the city.
The fight never came.
Instead, about five minutes into the meeting, board chairman Mark Munroe tossed a bombshell. Munroe announced that landowners had withdrawn a protest that would have prevented the measure from being placed on the ballot, eliciting loud cheers from the audience.
New Study Finds Big Economic Benefits from Shale
Saturday, September 07, 2013ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- The economic and employment contributions from U.S. unconventional oil and gas production are now being felt throughout the U.S. economy, increasing household incomes, boosting trade and contributing to a new increase in U.S. competitiveness in the world economy, according to the results of a new study by IHS, an industry information and analytics firm.