Ohio Injection Well Suspends Activity
The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a limited moratorium has been placed on 5 injection wells (only one of which is active) in northeast Ohio because of concerns related to earthquake activity: "There are 177 injection wells throughout the state. Zehringer and other officials, speaking on a New Year’s Eve conference call, said the single Youngstown well is the only one of its kind that’s been related to seismic activity since the state started using them in the 1970s. *** Kasich officials also stressed that the months-long shaking in Youngstown is not a result of hydraulic fracking — a procedure used to extract oil and gas out of rock formations such as the Marcellus and Utica shale."
As we've noted before, let's not jump to any conclusions ...
