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Some Mahoning County residents embrace return to drilling

Milton Township Trustee Harold Campbell stands in front of a natural gas Clinton Sandstone drill pump. Clinton drilling picked up in the 1970s, but now oil and gas companies want to drill deeper. Campbell said the drilling boom could bring economic prosperity to the township.


Vindy.com to launch fracking page; chamber to host shale conference

The Vindicator will launch its new fracking page this week on Vindy.com. It will act as a source for everything related to the Utica and Marcellus shale drilling industries.

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Another quake hits area near D&L well in Youngstown

Despite the state’s insistence that a brine injection well on Ohio Works Drive, off Salt Springs Road, isn’t the reason for seven earthquakes that have occurred in Youngstown since March, another was recorded at 1:47 a.m. Friday in the same area.


ODNR rejects linking well to Mahoning Valley quakes

State environmental regulators are relatively sure that a brine-injection well in Youngstown hasn’t been the source of six Mahoning Valley earthquakes this year.


Brine injection wells mean money for Ohio

Brine injection wells mean money for Ohio COLUMBUS Ohio has made $1 million off brine injection


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ODNR expert hears Coitsville’s concerns over well

Injection wells are cement-and-steel-cased. There are currently 17 injection wells in development or already in place in Mahoning and Trumbull counties, including one in Youngstown.

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Source: Ellsworth Twp. drilling site planned

The Vindicator has learned a Utica Shale drilling well is planned within Ellsworth Township limits.


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Environmentalists: Ohio’s rules on fracking fall short

Proposed new regulations on gas and oil drilling in the state would be some of the toughest in the nation if adopted, but environmentalists and local officials complain they don’t go far enough, especially in protecting public health.


Thinking beyond the need to drill

Opinion: Thinking beyond the need to drill It appears that the Marcel- las and Utica Shale drilling rush is


Utica Shale well planned for Ellsworth Township

Utica Shale well planned for Ellsworth Township


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Valley drilling on the move

Oil-drilling derricks such as this one, outside Carrollton in Carroll County, could soon start appearing throughout the Mahoning Valley, based on an uptick in signed leases, especially in southeast Mahoning County. The boom in such leases has begun to spread to western townships.

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Before signing with broker, get facts

Before nearly 100,000 acres of land was leased earlier this year for oil- and gas-drilling purposes, landowners in southern Mahoning Valley negotiated with as many as 10 entities.

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YOUNG shale expo is 10 days away

The Youngstown/ Warren Regional Chamber’s first-of-its-kind Utica Shale conference and trade show is quickly approaching. The Youngstown Ohio Utica & Natural Gas business-to-business conference, scheduled from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at the Covelli Centre, will feature national and local companies and their products and expertise regarding the Utica and Marcellus Shale supply chain.


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Ohio treasurer calls on Brown to support fracking

Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Republican likely running for the U.S. Senate next year, says he supports a “responsible but aggressive” policy on fracking.

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Protest planned at Youngstown shale conference

Fracking Exposed: A State of Emergency, will protest Nov. 30 at the Covelli Centre at the same time as the YOUNG 2011 Utica and Marcellus Shale Conference and Expo.