On Friday, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) imposed tough new regulations on the operators of the state’s 177 deep-injection wastewater disposal wells. WELLSVILLE, Ohio - A torrent of investment in mineral leases, manufacturing plants, pipeline construction, and drilling platforms signals what business executives and state energy officials say is the most significant surge in Ohio’s oil and gas development in decades.īut the development of the Marcellus and Utica shales, two hydrocarbon-rich rock layers beneath much of eastern Ohio, also is producing fresh public concerns about the consequences to public safety and to the state’s waters from the disposal of millions of barrels of contaminated oilfield wastewater. But the promise of vast gas and oil reserves in the region’s rich Utica Shale is also producing fresh public concerns about the consequences to public safety and Ohio’s waters. The site of a proposed $US 3 billion natural-gas-to-liquids plant near Wellsville, Ohio, heralds what many say is the state’s most significant investment in oil and gas development in decades.
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