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Invitation-Only Shale Forum Takes Place Today
Monday, March 11, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio --The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber will join with three statewide organizations to present a program this afternoon to bring together business and community leaders to discuss opportunities and challenges from shale development and ways to ensure a long-term sustainability of economic progress.
Wellsville Intermodal Park Ramps Up with Shale
Saturday, March 09, 2013WELLSVILLE, Ohio -- The village of Wellsville is eager to realize the benefits from a year of growth at the Wellsville Intermodal Facility and the rapid emergence of the oil and gas industry in Columbiana County.
So says Randy Allmon, president of the Wellsville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Last year was “a little better” than 2011, Allmon says, with chamber membership increasing 10% annually the last few years. But with a few local businesses shutting their doors in 2012, he says the village is ready for a surge of the growth based on the industrial park.
From Utica to Gulf Coast: Pipeline Project Announced
Thursday, March 07, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Two huge energy companies are planning to build a massive pipeline that stretches from Ohio's Utica shale play to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Williams, a Tulsa-based energy infrastructure company ranked 276th on the Fortune 500 list, and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, a Houston-based operator of pipelines and underground storage caverns, are forming a joint venture to develop pipelines to transport natural gas liquids from the Marcellus and Utica shale plays to Louisiana's petrochemical and export complex.
Anti-fracking Activists Petition Ohio Legislators
Thursday, March 07, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Just as one hydraulic fracturing operation was getting under way at a well site in Trumbull County, seven activists from the Mahoning Valley were en route to Columbus to petition state legislators to shut down a similar operation in Mahoning County.