Comments on: Earthquake in Wayne National Forest is Within Ohio’s Fracking Region https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2017/04/08/earthquake-in-wayne-national-forest-is-within-ohios-fracking-region/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Athens News https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2017/04/08/earthquake-in-wayne-national-forest-is-within-ohios-fracking-region/#comment-200829 Athens News Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:52:06 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=19735#comment-200829 <strong>Bids on Wayne National Forest drilling leases total $5.2 Million</strong> From an Article by Sara Welch, Shale Gas Reporter, April 6, 2017 The rat race is on to acquire drilling rights in Wayne National Forest. As it stands, bids total $5.2 million for leases to explore and drill for oil and natural gas on 1,180 acres in Monroe County, Ohio, according to The Athens News. The bids were submitted via an online auction conducted by the United States Bureau of Land Management. The auction marks the second round, as an earlier one took place in December to disperses leases on 719 acres of the forest. A third auction is scheduled for June 22. The companies that secured leases in the first two rounds of auctions will still have to submit site-specific drilling applications to the BLM and U.S. Forest Service before they will have full approval to drill. Learn more: The Athens News > Oil and gas lease auction for Wayne nets $5M in bids Bids on Wayne National Forest drilling leases total $5.2 Million

From an Article by Sara Welch, Shale Gas Reporter, April 6, 2017

The rat race is on to acquire drilling rights in Wayne National Forest. As it stands, bids total $5.2 million for leases to explore and drill for oil and natural gas on 1,180 acres in Monroe County, Ohio, according to The Athens News.

The bids were submitted via an online auction conducted by the United States Bureau of Land Management. The auction marks the second round, as an earlier one took place in December to disperses leases on 719 acres of the forest. A third auction is scheduled for June 22.

The companies that secured leases in the first two rounds of auctions will still have to submit site-specific drilling applications to the BLM and U.S. Forest Service before they will have full approval to drill.

Learn more: The Athens News > Oil and gas lease auction for Wayne nets $5M in bids

]]> By: Wayne Forest https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2017/04/08/earthquake-in-wayne-national-forest-is-within-ohios-fracking-region/#comment-200513 Wayne Forest Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:26:31 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=19735#comment-200513 <strong>3.0-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Wayne National Forest, Fracking Operations Temporarily Halted</strong> By Eric Sandy, Cleveland Scene, April 5, 2017 The eyes of the seismological and environmental worlds have focused on Wayne National Forest this week, the sight of a 3.0-magnitude earthquake on Sunday. For now, fracking operations in the forest have stopped. The earthquake's epicenter was not within any of the forest's recently leased parcels, but it was located in and near parcels that have been requested for future lease opportunities by private drilling companies. (See the map in original article.) Within 20 miles of the epicenter, four wastewater injection wells thrust high-pressure fracking wastewater into the ground. In 2016, those wells injected 350 million gallons of fracking wastewater — most coming from out of state. Multiple fracking sites are set up within five miles of the Sunday earthquakes's epicenter. In all, some 40,000 acres of the forest have been earmarked for private natural gas drilling — some of which was formerly federal land sold off by the Federal Bureau of Land Management. “This earthquake is a clear example of the risks involved in fracking,” said Melanie Houston, the director of the Ohio Environmental Council's oil and gas team, in a public statement this week. Highly fracked eastern Ohio counties, like the Wayne's Monroe County, are increasingly affected by earthquakes — in alarming contrast to the rest of the state. FracTracker maps seismological data, and the correlation is hard to ignore. See also: www.FrackCheckWV.net 3.0-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Wayne National Forest, Fracking Operations Temporarily Halted

By Eric Sandy, Cleveland Scene, April 5, 2017

The eyes of the seismological and environmental worlds have focused on Wayne National Forest this week, the sight of a 3.0-magnitude earthquake on Sunday. For now, fracking operations in the forest have stopped.

The earthquake’s epicenter was not within any of the forest’s recently leased parcels, but it was located in and near parcels that have been requested for future lease opportunities by private drilling companies. (See the map in original article.)

Within 20 miles of the epicenter, four wastewater injection wells thrust high-pressure fracking wastewater into the ground. In 2016, those wells injected 350 million gallons of fracking wastewater — most coming from out of state. Multiple fracking sites are set up within five miles of the Sunday earthquakes’s epicenter.

In all, some 40,000 acres of the forest have been earmarked for private natural gas drilling — some of which was formerly federal land sold off by the Federal Bureau of Land Management.

“This earthquake is a clear example of the risks involved in fracking,” said Melanie Houston, the director of the Ohio Environmental Council’s oil and gas team, in a public statement this week.

Highly fracked eastern Ohio counties, like the Wayne’s Monroe County, are increasingly affected by earthquakes — in alarming contrast to the rest of the state. FracTracker maps seismological data, and the correlation is hard to ignore.

See also: http://www.FrackCheckWV.net

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