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Lease will protect Valley landowners from water contamination
Water quality is a top concern to all landowners, especially those with water wells near oil- and natural-gas drilling operations.
Warren looks into selling water for fracking
The city, which has begun to earn revenue from the treatment of frack water from oil and gas exploration in the region, also is making preparations to sell the “raw” water the companies use.
Oil and gas leases: Learn how to reap the benefits
Most Mahoning Valley landowners who sign oil and gas leases will never see a Utica or Marcellus shale well on their property.
Landowners urged to beware of selling mineral rights
Oil and gas leases are at the forefront of shale drilling in the Mahoning Valley.
Sand Storms In Sales
The boom in drilling for natural gas trapped in layers of shale has been good news for a handful of Ohio companies that supply the type of sand needed for such drilling.
Ashtabula Co. deals with fracking issues
Though it has not officially begun in Ashtabula County, “fracking,” a natural-gas drilling process, is fraught with legal and environmental implications for local residents.
Shale Leasing: Gushing in deals
After settling in Columbiana County for most of 2011, the oil-and gas-leasing binge now is in full swing throughout the Mahoning Valley.
Clatter that arose was city’s 9th quake
The depth of the city’s latest earthquake was the shallowest to date, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Yep — another Valley earthquake in the same area as the others
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake shook Youngstown early Saturday morning, but this one was a little different than the rest.
Mahoning Co., Chesapeake come to terms on Calla Rd.
Mahoning County commissioners approved an agreement with Chesapeake Exploration LLC of Oklahoma City, under which Chesapeake improved 1.7 miles of Calla Road east of state Route 534 before its planned drilling of a 6,000-foot-deep oil-and-gas well into the Utica Shale formation.
Columbiana Co., Chesapeake OK deal on records
The Columbiana County recorder’s office and Chesapeake Energy have arrived at an imaging deal regarding county records.
Six injection well protesters accept plea deal
Six environmental protesters who demonstrated at a local injection well entered plea agreements Thursday in Youngstown Municipal Court.
Valley can accommodate shale boom short-term
Mahoning County will soon reap the benefits of the shale-drilling frenzy.
Occupy group protests injection well in Hubbard
About a dozen protesters from the Occupy Youngstown movement occupied the corner of Main Street and Hubbard Masury Road in protest of the brine injection well to be built there.
Fracking rules to be more stringent
Ohio plans to scrap some fracking regulations in lieu of more- stringent rules, but some antifracking advocates remain skeptical about the proposed changes.
Boosting tax on oil, gas rates would mean $538M for Ohio, report says
Ohio could generate $538 million in revenues by 2015 if it imposed a higher tax on oil and gas rates, according to a new report from Policy Matters Ohio.
Board tries to dissolve rumors on fracturing
Mill Creek MetroParks board members tried once again to dissolve rumors of hydraulic fracturing on park lands.
Shale industry’s economic impact disputed in study
The Utica Shale is expected to bring economic prosperity to Ohio in coming years.
Girard company thrives on Marcellus business
The Utica and Marcellus shales are still relatively new to Ohio, but for one Mahoning Valley business, it’s been years in the making.
Valley recorders brace for title search onslaught
Recorder’s offices in Mahoning and Columbiana counties have experienced dramatic increases in business from title searchers checking into property for use in Utica Shale gas drilling, and Trumbull is expecting to be next.