Health Officials Are Not Concerned With Potential Radioactive Materials

January 24, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play BRIDGEPORT, Ohio — Potentially hazardous uranium and radium are some of the radioactive materials being pumped into Ohio’s injection wells, such as the 13,727-foot deep... more »»

AEP is slowly moving from coal to natural gas

January 24, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play ST. more »»

Plan to ship wastewater into Ohio is put on hold

January 24, 2013 COLUMBUS (AP) — A Texas-based company wants to use river barges to move its potentially toxic wastewater in Ohio, but federal officials must first decide whether it’s safe. more »»

FirstEnergy sells land to shale firm

January 24, 2013 By LINDA HARRIS Shale Play TORONTO, Ohio — FirstEnergy has sold 40-plus acres on the outskirts of Toronto to a Texas company that will be using it for a shale-related business activity. more »»

MarkWest Opens Wetzel County Processing Plant

January 24, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play PINE GROVE, W.Va. more »»

Chesapeake Shedding More Pipelines

January 24, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play WHEELING, W.Va. — Chesapeake Energy is selling the rest of its pipeline network and natural gas transporting equipment for $2. more »»

Dominion, Caiman enter $1.5B partnership

January 10, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play NATRIUM, W.Va. — The plant has yet to process its first barrel of butane, but Dominion Resources and Caiman Energy have struck a $1. more »»

Shale rush leads to railroad revival

January 10, 2013 HANNIBAL, Ohio — An integral part of America’s industrial might will be returning to Monroe County this year to service the region’s natural gas industr. more »»

Shell given six more months to buy land for Pa. cracker

January 10, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play MONACA, Pa. more »»

Trumbull Drilling Set to Begin

January 10, 2013 By BRENDA J. LINERT Shale Play BURGHILL, Ohio — Workers could be seen from nearby Hayes-Orangeville Road zipping around the base of the newly erected drilling rig towering high above the site. more »»

Study: Gas may create 58K W.Va. jobs

January 10, 2013 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A pro-industry group said if it’s allowed to continue, shale-gas development in West Virginia could support more than 29,000 jobs by 2020, doubling to 58,000 by the year 2035. more »»

Boom in drilling activity still on way

January 10, 2013 By LARRY SHIELDS Shale Play SALEM, Ohio — In his opening remarks during the Youngstown Ohio Utica and Natural Gas Conference and Expo last September, Youngstown Mayor Charles P. more »»

Shale gas industry wants to move waste by barge

January 10, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — The shale gas drilling industry wants to use barges to move its wastewater across rivers and lakes to disposal sites across the country, but the U.S. more »»

Conservation groups hope merger will help protect local scenic land from drilling

January 10, 2013 By STEPHEN HUBA Shale Play EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — A merger between two conservation organizations — one local, one regional — will likely result in more aggressive efforts to protect threatened... more »»

Kraton Polymers to update boilers

January 10, 2013 By BRETT DUNLAP Shale Play BELPRE, Ohio — A local plant will be spending millions of dollars on two natural gas steam boilers that will greatly reduce hazardous emissions. more »»

Projection: Ohio moving up the energy ranks

January 10, 2013 By BRENDA J. LINERT Shale Play Ohio will bound upward, ranking third in the continental U.S. in unconventional oil and gas employment numbers by the year 2025, according to a recent study. more »»

Magers Continues Battling Methane

January 10, 2013 By CASEY JUNKINS Shale Play CAMERON, W.Va. more »»

2012’s top story has some staying power for local area

January 10, 2013 By TOM GIAMBRONI Shale Play LISBON, Ohio — This past year will be remembered as the year when the first of what are to be many drilling rigs began popping up around Columbiana County, as the shale... more »»

Pa. townships find money from impact fee helpful

January 10, 2013 By MIKE REUTHER Shale Play WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. more »»

Drilling companies work on community relations

January 10, 2013 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Some gas drilling companies that spent years fighting, threatening and suing reluctant communities took a new tack in 2012: collaboration. more »»

 
 

 

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