Articles About oil drilling

• 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.

• Council puts drilling ban on hold for now

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 16, 2012

  At the Aug. 6 Village Council meeting, a group of citizens urged Council to be the first municipality in the state to ban oil and gas drilling in town in an effort to protect local water.

• 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.

• Oil and water— Drilling stirs new concerns

  By Megan BachmanApril 19, 2012

  

  In the late 1800s northwestern Ohio was at the center of an oil boom, and Ohio became the world’s largest oil producer. Soon drilling moved to eastern and central Ohio, which is today at the center of another fossil fuel boom

• 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.

• Drilling effects on groundwater questioned

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 2, 2012

  Despite a yearlong campaign by Yellow Springs and Miami Township residents and environmental activists urging that area landowners not lease their land for oil and gas drilling, three residents northwest of the village in Miami Township have signed lease agreements.