Articles About fracking

• Drilling ban is approved

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 30, 2012

  At their meeting Monday, Aug. 20, Village Council took an initial step toward becoming the first municipality in Ohio to ban fracking and injection wells within its borders.

• Group urges setting precedent in opposing oil, gas drilling

  By Megan BachmanJuly 5, 2012

  Yellow Springs may be the first community in Ohio to ban oil and gas drilling and waste wells within its municipal limits using a rights-based ordinance.

• Fracking forum to push for YS ban

  By Megan BachmanJune 26, 2012

  

  Environmental experts will share ways Yellow Springs can avoid contamination from oil and gas drilling and fracking waste wells at a forum on Saturday.

• Many issues of village water

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 8, 2012

  Water. We can’t live without it. But chances are, we don’t spend much time thinking about it. And questions regarding water quality are edging closer to Yellow Springs.

• No-fracking event aims to mobilize

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 8, 2011

  Yellow Springs will host a regional meeting of community organizers working to prevent hydraulic fracturing, a controversial drilling technique linked to groundwater contamination.

• DeWine dismisses drilling file

  By Lauren HeatonJuly 7, 2011

  This month Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine released the findings of an investigation of a document containing fraudulent land leasing tactics for the purpose of gas drilling in the Yellow Springs area.

• Weigh in on natural gas power plant

  By Megan BachmanJune 10, 2011

  

  Discussions on the environmental consequences of the Village’s electricity sources have heated up of late, especially since its municipal power provider AMP first asked the Village to purchase power from a new natural gas plant last month.

• File implicates gas industry

  By Lauren HeatonApril 28, 2011

  Last week a Miami Township resident found a binder on her property containing what appeared to be a field guide for agents looking to lease private property for the purpose of oil and gas production.

• Drillers ask for land leases

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 17, 2011

  An energy company began contacting landowners in Miami Township last week about leasing their land for oil and gas drilling.