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OH: ODNR Data Confirms HF Safety

Written by Greg Russell | Oct 26, 2013 3:15:32 PM

The Akron Beacon Journal has an article reaffirming the safety record of hydraulic fracturing in Ohio:  "[The Ohio] Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management has investigated 183 water-well complaints that Ohio landowners filed from 2010 through mid-October. Only six water supplies were impacted by drilling over the nearly four-year period, state spokesman Mark Bruce said. *** All of those problems stemmed from old, vertical-only wells, not today’s big horizontal wells that rely on fracking to free natural gas, oil and other liquids from rocks deep underground, he said."

Read the whole thing.