Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. "I wanted to ...
The passage of House Bill 507 in December 2021 mandates state agencies to allow fracking on Ohio public lands, fundamentally altering the stewardship of lands that include state parks, forests ...
Some state parks can be fracked in Ohio, a decision made by a government commission Wednesday despite an ongoing investigation into oil and gas companies claiming possible fraudulent support.
This map was created with an unknown SVG tool. This map was improved or created by the Wikigraphists of the Graphic Lab (en). You can propose images to clean up, improve, create or translate as well.
Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.
SkyTruth's FrackFinder project utilizes public crowd sourcing to map fracking operations on the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations. [8] SkyTruth has mapped out fracking well pads and retainment ponds in Pennsylvania , Ohio , and West Virginia , with further plans to quantify the total impact halos of fracking operations underway.
There were more than 1,400 fracking incidents associated with oil and gas wells in Ohio between 2018 and Sept. 2023, according to FracTracker Alliance − a non-profit that collects data on ...
Maryland introduced a temporary fracking ban in 2015, [117] which was made permanent in 2017. [118] [119] Washington joined these states by banning hydraulic fracturing in May 2019. [120] A type of fracking technique called slickwater fracking was used in Texas in 1998 to complete natural gas wells in the Barnett Shale. [121]