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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.
Company tries to ease fears over ‘brine’ tankers
Fracking fear has struck many in the Mahoning Valley, mostly due to possible water contamination.
Hubbard ODNR reps back in Valley
Less than a month after Ohio Department of Natural Resources representatives took the three-hour drive from Columbus to Coitsville, they were back in the Mahoning Valley on Tuesday.
ODNR asks Hubbard residents for input on brine-injection well
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will meet with Hubbard residents at 3 p.m. today at the Hubbard Township Administration Building, 2600 Elmwood Drive.
Drilling deal expected in mere days
Negotiations between the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley and an oil and gas driller could be completed “in a matter of days.”
Agency criticizes Pa. gas-well rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is criticizing Pennsylvania’s interim rules on air pollution from Marcellus gas wells, saying the regulations apparently would allow for more pollution than do federal guidelines.
EPA links fracking, pollution
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the first time has implicated fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — for causing groundwater pollution.
Injection-well owners required to run test
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources will require owners of a new brine-injection well to run a special test to ensure that brine is being injected into the correct underground formations.
County’s historical records endangered by new demands
Editorial: Editor's Note: This is a Vindicator opinion piece that was published Thursday, Dec. 8., 2011
Seeing the promise of a new age
Opinion: Seeing the promise of a new age As a retired engineer orig- inally from Youngstown, I would like
Seismic devices to watch D&L well
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says there are new seismographs near a brine injection well in Youngstown that will help to determine if the well is causing minor earthquakes.