What is Hydraulic Fracking?
The rush to unconventional gas drilling poses risks to Ohio's communities and natural resources.
Relatively new drilling technology -- high-volume, deep-shale horizontal hydraulic fracturing -- now makes it possible to reach natural gas reserves that underlie much of the state of Ohio.
Commonly referred to as "horizontal hydrofracking" or just "fracking," deep-shale natural gas drilling uses high-pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals to release the trapped gas.
The environmental and health impacts from high-volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing in other states are shocking and well documented, with a significant number of spills, blowouts, leaking wells, and other accidents and releases of contaminants.
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EVENT: Fracking forum on March 20
Join the League of Women Voters - Columbus Chapter for "Fracking: What Every Citizen Should Know." Speakers will include:
- The OEC's Deputy Directo, Jack Shaner
- Linda Woggon, Executive Vice President, Ohio Chamber of Commerce
- Rhonda Reda, Executive Director of the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program
- Thomas Tugend, Deputy Chief, Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management
Tuesday, March 20
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Auditorium
96 South Grant Avenue Columbus, OH 43215
Visit their website for more information.
Learn More & Latest News
- OEC's Fracking Fact Sheet
- Press Release: Gov. Kasich unveils his 21st Century Energy Policy including deep-shale drilling
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News story: "Waste-water injection well caused 12 earthquakes in Ohio, investigation shows"
- Watch: Jack Shaner discusses fracking with a representative from the oil and gas industry
- Press release: Ohio EPA finalizes air permits for deep-shale gas drilling: the good, the bad, and the missing
- Listen to the OEC's Jack Shaner discuss fracking with Attorney General DeWine and others
- Read the OEC's testimony before Youngstown City Council about oil & gas wastewater disposal and recent earthquake
- View photos from press conference about fracking near the Grand River
- Press Release: Deep-shale 'fracking' comes to Ohio's pristine Grand River watershed
- Read the OEC's comments to ODNR's Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management about the draft rules oil and gas well construction
- Learn the Hard Lessons of Coal Pollution (US News & World Report)
- Disclosure of 'fracking' chemicals not complete (Columbus Dispatch)
- Ohio moves ahead with shale exploration while other states take a break (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Debate over fracking continues (Ohio News Network) VIDEO
- Sen. Skindell proposes a moratorium on deep shale horizontal hydraulic fracturing
- Study links flammable drinking water to fracking
- Municipalities seek ways to limit drilling (Canton Rep)
- Sandra Steingraber speech in Albany, NY, to ban hydrofracking (video)
- Fracking in Pennsylvania (blog)
- Video of what a homeowner now faces every day since construction of a 'fracking' well has begun nearby (link to YouTube).
- Akron Beacon Journal Op-Ed
BELOW: Presentation by Joe Logan of the OEC about fracking and its environmental risks. (courtesty of Ohio Farmers Union)
Questions?
Contact Trent Dougherty, Ohio Environmental Council, (614) 487-7506.
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