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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.

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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.

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Landowners urged to beware of selling mineral rights

Oil and gas leases are at the forefront of shale drilling in the Mahoning Valley.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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Valley can accommodate shale boom short-term

Mahoning County will soon reap the benefits of the shale-drilling frenzy.

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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.

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