Ohio Drillers Awash in Concern Over Fracking Waste from Pa. from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"As the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, grows in horizontal wells in shale deposits under Ohio to unlock oil and gas deposits valued at billions of dollars, so will the production of drilling fluids that must be re-deposited deep underground through Ohio's injection wells. ... From 2007 through 2010, Portage County injection wells handled nearly 4 million 42-gallon barrels of waste, according to records from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Mineral Resources Management."
"As the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, grows in horizontal wells in shale deposits under Ohio to unlock oil and gas deposits valued at billions of dollars, so will the production of drilling fluids that must be re-deposited deep underground through Ohio's injection wells. ... From 2007 through 2010, Portage County injection wells handled nearly 4 million 42-gallon barrels of waste, according to records from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Mineral Resources Management."
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