Local lawyer digs up dirt on fracking leases
Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series about the economic factors of hydraulic fracturing.
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Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series about the economic factors of hydraulic fracturing.
Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series about the economic factors of hydraulic fracturing.
Editor’s note: This is the first of a four-part series about the economic factors of hydraulic fracturing.
Ths U.S. Postal Service is reviewing 252 of its 487 mail-processing centers for possible consolidation and closure, including one Athens location.
When word first got out that 2,623 acres could potentially be leased in Wayne National Forest for hydraulic fracturing, city, county and Ohio University officials lashed back — decrying the harm the chemicals involved in the process could do to Athens’ water supply.
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More than 100 Athens County residents gathered at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources District Four headquarters last night for an informal conference regarding Oxford Mining Co.’s permit to strip mine land in Joy Hollow.
Morgantown, W.Va. has more in common with Athens than its college-town charm.
After paying off nearly $2 million worth of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fines, Athens City Council is breathing a sigh of relief. However, the sigh isn’t coming from an increase in budgetary breathing room, but rather an end to more than three decades worth of fine payments.
With the ability to recover 85 percent of the contaminated water used in the hydraulic fracturing process, Cunningham Energy and Ohio senators hope to promote positive economic effects despite public outcry.
Though the Athens Police Department’s alcohol-related arrests have stayed consistent since 2009, underage-drinking arrests by the Ohio Investigative Unit nearly doubled in 2010.
Yesterday’s Athens City Council meeting brought to light Council’s compromises regarding energy contracts, residential unease over green space and worries for the city’s financial future.
Lost in the debate about hydraulic fracturing is the possibility that some byproducts might cause problems worse than partisan gas.
Over a dozen residents and students lined the sidewalk outside of the Ohio University Inn over the weekend in an attempt to persuade those considering leasing their property to oil and natural gas companies for hydraulic fracturing to think twice.
Despite Sen. Troy Balderson’s, R-20th, recently voiced support of hydraulic fracturing, area officials continue to stand firmly against the mining style.
A nearly full house of residents, students and local business owners packed last night’s Athens City Council meeting to speak out about hydraulic fracturing and help Council explore avenues to regulate the drilling method.
Every April, Athens City Council tours the city’s roads, familiarizing itself with the areas demanding the most attention. However, because of an imminent budget reduction, council members and Andy Stone, director of engineering and public works, may not be able to follow through on their own recommendations.
Resident outcry over city health and safety problems took precedence over an otherwise slow-paced council meeting in which only one non-routine Halloween related resolution was passed.
Though past long-term city council initiatives have produced community centers and youth soccer fields in Athens, the latest aims to bring in grant money rather than create new infrastructure.
By: Kaitlynn Grady