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Neighbors rocked by cluster of 14 new injection, production wells planned in Portage County
By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer Published: October 21, 2012
WINDHAM TWP.: In what should be the still of the night, Natalie Baker can feel her house shake.
It is a strange, disconcerting and troubling sensation, Baker says of the vibrations caused by a drilling rig 1,800 feet away off Frazier Road in Portage County’s northeast corner.
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Jeff Daniels, a geology professor and director of the Subsurface Energy Resource Center at Ohio State University, said he was unaware of any place in Ohio where there is such a concentration of production and injection wells.
From all indications, the Ohio Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management will approve the entire cluster of wells, despite environmentalists’ protests and increasing neighborhood tensions.
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http://www.ohio.com/news/local/neighbors-rocked-by-cluster-of-14-new-injection-production-wells-planned-in-northeast-portage-county-1.343856
