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Current News from FWAP:
HB 165 (2010) Summary
House Bill 165 was passed in 2010 and it altered the landscape for oil and gas drilling. This sweeping bill addressed many parts of ORC 1509 - Oil and Gas regulations. The full summary is available here.
3 State Comparison of Health & Safety Measures
The People's Oil and Gas Collaborative of Ohio created a comprehensive report that compared Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas's regulations. These states were chosen because they are the top four states with the highest number of oil and gas wells drilled. These states...
Maps of Marcellus & Utica
Ohio.com has maps of the Utica and Marcellus shale plays. You can type in your address and see drill sites near you. Not only does this site have the fracking maps, but it also contains the injection well maps. Injection wells are typically old vertical oil and gas...
Ohio Sierra Club: Useful Data
The Ohio Sierra Club has created an interactive online map. It displays all Water Sentinel sample data collected thus far. You can click on a point to display information about a sample or sort by conductivity level. View it here. The Ohio Sierra Club has also put...
Shale Well Drilling & Permitting
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has a page with spreadsheets that are posted weekly containing data about the number of permits and locations of the permits in Ohio's Marcellus and Utica shale plays. You can view the data here.
Oil and Gas Well Search
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has a well search tool that is open to the public. The website is widely criticized because it is difficult to use. Once you get the hang of it you can determine when a well is permitted for drilling and where. The website...