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◆ Congressman visits lab ............................pg. 3 ◆ Focus on safety following fatality ...........pg. 4 ◆ 1st women to graduate from program .....pg. 6 ◆ EQT donates funds ................................pg. 11 ◆ Sales up over 24% in shale counties .....pg. 10 ◆ Young lawyers riding the wave .............pg. 12 ◆ $1 billion natural gas processing plant opens in Kensington in May..................pg. 14 ◆ Art focusing on industry sought for show .....................................pg. 16 ◆ Number of patients increasing ..............pg. 18 ◆ Adjacent lands may be drilled ..............pg. 20 ◆ Rex Energy donation .............................pg. 21 ◆ Natural gas processing plants critical to Utica Shale Development..................pg. 23 ◆ It’s not easy being ‘techno Amish’ ........pg. 24 ◆ What are those little checks...................pg. 28 ◆ Oil & Gas Assn. adds staff ....................pg. 31

◆ Ohio BWC offers safety services at no additional cost to employers.............pg. 32 ◆ Middle school students design frack water cleaning process ..........................pg. 37 ◆ 10 things about ‘fracking tax’................pg. 38 ◆ Council to sell water for fracking ..........pg. 41 ◆ Cambridge Alumni and friends receives donation from EQT Corp. .....................pg. 44 ◆ Group claims fracking secrecy illegal ...pg. 48 ◆ Job postings on the rise .........................pg. 50 ◆ EQT donates to Firefighters Assn..........pg. 54 ◆ Turner Oil Supports BARK project.......pg. 55 ◆ Ohio farmers Union takes positions ......pg. 56 ◆ Energy revolution a ‘game changer’ .....pg. 58 ◆ Proponents urge lawmakers...................pg. 59 ◆ Council says pipeline will create jobs ...pg. 61 ◆ Zeigler hired to direct OPC ...................pg. 62 ◆ Companies shut down for dumping ......pg. 64

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Congressman visits Zane State lab

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uring a recent visit to the Zane State College’s Cambridge campus, Congressman Bill Johnson spent the afternoon meeting with college President Dr. Paul Brown, administrators, instructors and students, and received a firsthand look at the school’s new oil and gas land lab. He also met with several students to learn more about what they were studying, the skills they were acquiring, and the impact a Zane State education

was having on their lives. During a stop in one of the classrooms, Johnson and the group talked about job opportunities available in the industry. Many of the students cited the emerging job market in the oil and gas industry as the main reason they decided to enroll. Johnson also toured and learned more about the medical, welding and industrial electricity programs during his visit to the school.

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“You’re getting in on the beginning of a really good deal, so you should be excited. You will be able to stay in Ohio and raise your kids in Ohio,” he said. After Rep. Johnson’s visit to a welding class, Deanna Duche, director of welding education, commented, “Cong. Johnson’s interest in our oil and gas-related programs has given us a great opportunity to communicate to the public about the need for more skilled welders. There is a common misconception that manufacturing in this area is in decline and that welding as a career, is a dead-end. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are companies that are turning down millions of dollars worth of work, because they cannot find enough qualified welders. “The high demand for skilled welders, especially pipe welders, has benefitted our graduates, by raising the starting wage significantly. Our biggest problem at present, is that we cannot Continued on pg. 4

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Focus on saftey following fatality

he death of one worker on a Carroll County well pad on February 25, has led to a renewed emphasis on safety training. According to the Carroll County Sheriff Department’s incident report, Abdal L. Audeh, 28, of Dover, and Alex R. Cox, 20, of Cadiz, were attaching long-handled tongs used to manipulate pipe on the Brace West pad located at 1165 Brussel Georgette Huff Road, in Washington Township, apDix Communications proximately six miles north of Carrollton, when they lost control of the apparatus, which swung around, striking Audeh across his back. Cox, who sustained a head laceration when he fell backwards on the rig, told investigators he and Audeh had forgotten to hook up a safety line, called a “snub line,” which would have prevented the tongs from swinging completely around. Paramedics performed CPR on Au-

transport deh at the scene before transporting him to Aultman Hospital in Canton, where he was pronounced dead. According to autopsy results released by Stark County Coroner, Dr. P.S. Murthy, Audeh died from massive blunt injuries to his chest. Cox was treated at Mercy Medical Center in Canton and released. This is the first fatality related to drilling activity in Carroll County. The Brace site is operated by R. E. Gas Development, a subsidiary of Rex Energy Corporation. Company officials released a statement saying the company would remain in communication with authorities and would “fully cooperate in the investigation” of the incident. Audeh and Cox were contractors with Rex Energy and employees of Sidewinder Drilling, Inc., a privately-owned drilling contractor based in Houston, TX, which owns and - Travis Fitts operates a fleet of land rigs to meet the needs and demands of oil and gas exploration and development companies. Company spokesman, Travis Fitts, senior vice president of human resources and health, safety and environment, said Sidewinder Drilling “has no higher priority” than employee safety and would “review all corporate-wide safety training and procedures.”

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women graduate from gas/oil program

Jones said she attended a class that explained the drilling operahey have been best friends tion and it piqued her interest in mud drilling. Mud drilling refers to since high school, now any fluid used in the drilling process. Mud engineering is knowing they are both graduating the correct physical and chemical characteristics of fluids, solids and from Zane State College on May 11. chemicals required to safely drill a well. Stephanie Jones and Jessica Cobb, both of Caldwell, will be “That’s how I knew I wanted to get into mud drilling or mud enthe first females to receive an associate degree from the college’s inaugural Oil and Gas Engineering Technology program. gineering,” said Jones. “I checked out the oil and gas program at For Jones, her decision to attend Zane State was almost a Marietta, but it was so expensive. Then I heard about Zane State’s foregone conclusion, even though her first steps into higher program; it was closer to home and there was a big difference in the education was not exactly conducive to oil and gas. She has an cost,” said Jones. Cobb’s situation was similar to Jones’s as far as a family tradition, Associate of Liberal Arts, an Associate of Medical Administrabut not in oil and gas. She grew up in a family of police officers. So, tion and a certificate for pharmacy technician, all from Washshe decided to give it a shot. ington State College. “My dad was a cop, and I have uncles and cousins who are cops,” It wasn’t until 2011 that she became interested pursuing a Cobb said. career in the oil and gas industry. “When I was a junior in high “Working in the oil and gas and “We are just as employable as the school I enrolled at Mideast Ohio mining industry, is a family tradimale grads from this class.” Career and Technical Center in tion,” she said. “Several men in our Zanesville for the criminal justice family have worked in mines, both - Jessica Cobb program. After I graduated, I wasn’t of my grandpas and an uncle were sure what I wanted to do. miners. My dad worked in oil field “I liked the idea of going into the services. “I’m the next generation and the oldest grandchild, so I have medical field, so I began working in home health with handicapped to set the bar. My father wasn’t at all shocked at my decision, children and adults. During this time I enrolled at the Washington County Career Center to study phlebotomy. I am now a certified but my grandmother’s reaction was a different story.” phlebotomist, and I also have a certificate in sign language from Washington State College. I worked in home health care for five years, but it was very stressful, and I was tired of living from paycheck to paycheck.” The thought of going back to school full-time wasn’t easy for either Jones or Cobb. College is a huge commitment. They both had responsibilities and both had a young child. And because oil and gas classes were divided between the Zanesville and Cambridge campuses, there would be a lot of traveling. But they realized the benefits outweighed the cost, monetarily and personally. Jones’s decision to apply to Zane State’s oil and gas progam was influenced by family tradition. Cobb’s decision was to better provide for herself and her daughter. Both were determined to demonstrate that women were capable of working in a male-dominated field. Cobb initially signed up for Zane State’s program on alternative energy, until she spoke with a college advisor. “After a 20-minute discussion about the oil and gas program, I was hooked,”said Cobb. Jessica Cobb, l, and Stephanie Jones, stand on the base of the Grants and loans paid for their tuition, and their families helped pumpjack which will be installed in Zane State’s gas and oil lab, now them out by caring for their children while they attended school. under construction at the college’s Cambridge campus. Cobb and Jones are the first two females who will graduate from Zane State’s Cobb’s daughter, Tylee, is four; Jones and her husband, Bill, have a Oil & Gas Engineering Technology Associate Degree Program in three-year-old son, Jax.

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Sales up over 21% in strong shale counties

conomic activity has increased in Ohio counties as a result of shale exploration and the early-stage production of oil and gas from shale reservoirs, according to a new study by Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. The study analyzed local sales receipts and total employment in areas categorized as strong shale counties – namely, the eastern Ohio counties of Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Cochocton, Geauga, Guernsey, Harrison, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Trumbull and Tuscarawas. Among the key findings: • Total sales activity in strong shale counties increased 21.1 percent, from $12.3 billion in 2011 to $14.9 billion in 2012. • The rebound in sales activity in strong shale counties began in 2011 and continued strongly through 2012. • The growth in sales activity among strong shale counties is occurring in a part of Ohio that has experienced little investment over the past several decades. • Employment growth in strong shale counties is not yet evi-

dent. In 2011, strong shale counties began to experience a positive growth trend in terms of estimated sales receipts. This trend continued and strengthened through 2012. Strong shale counties not only reversed negative average sales trends from the previous three years, but also outperformed moderate shale counties, weak shale counties and non-shale counties. While there is a clear positive trend in sales receipts, the employment data show a modest increase of 1.4 percent in the average employment yearly growth rate for strong shale counties between 2011 and 2012. Over the same period, moderate shale counties and non-shale counties experienced similar increases of 1.4 percent and 1.3 percent, respectively. Trends at the county level also hold true at the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) level. Strong shale MSAs experienced an average sales receipt increase of 17.3 percent between 2011 and 2012, outpacing moderate/weak MSAs (11.0 percent) and non-shale MSAs (6.4 percent).

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Young lawyers riding the wave “Usually, we’re litigating law. Now we’re helping to create law.”

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he burgeoning gas and oil industry has led to the expansion of many ancillary businesses. One of those is in the city of Alliance, where the law office of Geiger, Teeple, Smith and Hahn has been in existence for over 50 years. Almost from its inception the office has been involved in advising clients in the gas & oil industry. But, like many other businesses, the recent boom in Eastern Ohio has affected Geiger, Teeple, Smith and Hahn in many ways. Brent A. Barnes, an associate in the office since 2010, was brought in specifically to work with the gas and oil industry. He’s not been surprised by the local boom, but says he’s learned to expect the unexpected. His closest associates in the office are Dustin J. Hatherill and Matthew L. Mohr. Hatherill originally was hired for his expertise in title work, and until 2012 spent the majority of his work in that field. Mohr is the so-called “baby” of the group. He is a recent graduate from the University of Akron and was brought in specifically to handle the expanding gas and oil cases. “There’s always a disparity between what you’re taught (in law school) vs. the business,” says Mohr. “Oil and gas wasn’t a course that was offered, and it wasn’t tested on the bar (exam).” The result, especially for Mohr, is that he has had to learn on the fly. “I’m as much a geologist as I am an attorney,” he laughs. “I do a lot of reading.” But the hard work pays off in rewarding ways. “Usually, we’re litigating law,” says Barnes. “Now we’re helping to create law.” Hatherill says he first experienced “a lot more hostile” environment between

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landowners and companies, but it’s “calmed down” a little since then. “It’s helped that I have a little more experience now,” he says. “From a legal standpoint it’s creating a lot of opportunities,” adds Hatherill. “We’re seeing an influx of lawyers from Texas and Louisiana who have experience in gas and oil coming up here.” Barnes says it’s too early to get a sense of any consistency in how mineral rights disputes will be judged. “It’s a shotgun — all over the place,” he says. “The courts are trying to balance two competing interests and come up with the best results for everyone.” Hatherill says he enjoys the work but admits it’s “one of the hardest things I have had to tackle.” “People think this is black and white and there’s always one answer to everything,” he says. “In most if not all of the cases that’s just not true. “There’s really no authority, no guidance for us. We’re just taking it day by day.” Mohr said he’s noticed a huge age gap in his work. “There’s no in-between,” he says. “The lawyers working in oil and gas are either really young, like the three of us, or older because they’ve been involved with it since the 1950s.” As for what lay ahead, Barnes says there’s no crystal ball. “It’s impossible to predict the future,” he says. “We’re just here to ride the wave.”

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$1 billion natural gas processing plant opens in Kensington in May

nearly $1 billion natural gas processing plant is under construction in Kensington, and much of the end product will wind up heating homes in Stark County. The facility is slated to be the largest integrated Midstream service complex in eastern Ohio. Local business owner Donna Manfull, who co-owns Manfull’s Service with her husband, Burton Manfull, said she has seen a lot of extra trafLaurie Huffman Dix Communications fic already, while the plant is under construction, and she is being told the onslaught of trucks hasn’t even begun. “We live right in the center of it all because we’re up on a hill right across from the hill where the plant is being built, just about one quarter mile up Route 644. And we can see they’re just drilling all around us,” said Manfull. “But, everyone associated with the project so far has been so polite.” Construction of the plant is being handled by Fagen Inc., me-

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arroll County Arts has announced a call for entries for a community art show, “Rig it Up,” in April. The subject is the oil and gas industry as depicted in Carroll County. Selected art work will be transported to and from Atwood Resort for display at the Oil Baron’s Ball on April 13. The show is open to all adult artists with a limit of three entries per artist. Entry fees are $5 for each entry if a Carroll County Arts member and $10 for each entry if a non-member. Art work will be screened for acceptance into the show. All mediums or two-dimensional work will be accepted. Photography, computer-generated art and three-dimensional art is excluded. All work must be framed and wired for hanging, not to exceed 48” framed. Saw-tooth hangers will not be accepted. Each work must be labeled on the back upper right corner to include artist’s name, address, telephone number, title, medium, and price if for sale. Accepted entries will be judged and displayed at the Carroll County Arts Center, 204 W. Main St., Carrollton. There are no separate categories for oil, watercolor, etc. Each work will be judged against the other. If an entry is not for sale, it must be labeled “NFS” and a

value indicated. Carroll County Arts retains a 30 percent commission on any work sold. Awards to be given are $100 for first place, $75 for second place, $50 for third place and $100 for “People’s Choice.” The awards will be announced April 13 at the Oil Baron’s Ball. Winners will be notified by phone or mail. Work is to be delivered to the Carroll County Arts Center the week of April 1 through April 6. The show ends April 30 and work must be picked up by May 4. The Carroll County Arts Center is open Monday, Tuesday, Friday from 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Thursday from 1-8:30 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., closed Wednesday and Sunday. For further information, call 330-627-3739.

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hile the oil and gas industry has only scratched the surface of the Utica Shale, insofar as Midstream development and drilling are concerned, representatives from Mercy Medical Center say outpatient and Statcare volume has already increased in Carroll and Tuscarawas counties, due to added numbers of workers in the area. And, while the medical center has an expansion of its Emergency Department under construction at the main campus, in Stark County, it will continue to assess the growth of patient services and make further adjustments as needed. Rosemary Brace, manager of the Carrollton Statcare facility, and Barbara Frustaci, administrative director of the Offsight Rehabilitation Service Line, said they have also seen a significant increase in the center’s Work Health & Safety Occupational Medicine Services. While they have keep the hours of operation the same, they have had to bring extra staff in at times to accommodate the additional patients they have received due to the emerging gas and oil industry. Mercy Medical Center has Statcare as well as Occupational Medicine locations in Stark, Carroll, and Tuscarawas counties that offer immediate treatment of work-related injuries and illnesses, physical exams, drug screens, breath alcohol testing, random testing program management, hair follicle drug testing, pulmonary/ respiratory/examinations, 24-hour occupational nursing, on-site nursing,

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fter several months of trying to set up a face-to-face meeting with state representatives in regards to questions about Ohio Revised Code 1509.022, Kathi Albertson of Guernsey County finally succeeded in a electronic person-to-person meeting via Skype, between attendees at a meeting at the Cambridge campus of Zane State College and State Reps. David Hall and Andy Thompson at the Statehouse in Columbus. Joining Albertson and several local residents and Farm Bureau members were Dale Arnold, director of energy policy at the Ohio Farm Bureau, and State Rep. Brian Hill. The point of contention by Albertson is ORC Section 1509.022 , which refers to the location of wells using directional drilling — more commonly referred to as horizontal drilling — and states, “Except as provided in 1509.021 of the Revised Code, the surface location of a new well that will be drilled using directional drilling, may be located on a parcel of land not in the drilling unit of the well.” Albertson said she did not understand an email sent to her from Thompson on behalf of Hall’s explanation as to how this could be beneficial to land owners who own property adjacent to state parks or the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. Albertson noted that with her original lease with Enverest the assumed intent was that any well drilled [on her property] would be

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nyone who has ever smelled freshly popped popcorn knows the scent brings back memories of movie theaters. Now, thanks to Rex Energy, residents at Great Trail Care Center can experience those memories with freshly popped popcorn. Rex Energy stepped in to assist Great Trail Care Center after its popcorn popper broke and could not be replaced because of the center’s small activities budget. “Friday was our first in-house movie day with the new popper and it smelled just like a theater,” said Tonya Howell, Great Trail referral manager. “Our residents loved it. Special thanks to Debbie Herrington, Rex’s office manager, for always being so willing to help out. We will be using the popper for in-house and marketing activities.” The center delivered 62 bags of popcorn to the residents at Carroll County Apartments in Carrollton for its movie night and plans to do the same at the Minerva Senior Apartments. “The residents told me they felt like they were actually at the movies and it was so nice as they haven’t been there in years. They said they could smell the popcorn down the halls and it made them want to come out and watch the movie with the

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he composition of the raw natural gas extracted from producing wells depends on the type, depth, and location of the underground deposit and the geology of the area. Oil and natural gas are often found together in the same reservoir, or natural gas may be found separately. Before natural gas can be sold commercially, it requires processing to clean the raw natural gas by separating impurities and various nonmethane hydrocarbons and fluids to produce pipeline quality dry natu-

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It’s not easy being ‘techno Amish’

describe myself as being techno Amish. Not that I will not cross over and use new things, but having to be instructed on how to use it, and gaining some kind of mastery of it really gives me a lot of consternation. Thank God my daughter graduated from that I.T. program. I put her to work for me and let her upgrade, fix, and teach Don Gadd me all the nuances of the personal Landman computer. Now, I find out that we will all be working on a Pad and connected by a cloud somewhere. No wonder it has been raining and snowing so much. One thing that hasn’t changed is the relationship that needs to be forged between the landowner and the oil and gas company. As I have explained over the last several months, we have come a long way since I rode around with my dad and took right of ways for a quarter a rod. Today there are guys showing up to sign groups at meetings offering more money than most of us have seen in our lives. They drive Mitsubishi cars, have ear rings, and enough papers for you to sign that you thing you are taking out a new loan on a car.

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“ADJACENT LANDS MAY BE DRILLED” from pg. 20 and cannot be changed by law. “One of the easiest ways to address the ORC 1509.022 issue would be to create a rule that required a surface rights agreement before a drilling rig is placed on a parcel of land for the purpose of extracting resources from under state or federal lands,” said Arnold. Albertson said that she had spoken to other land downers with property adjacent to Salt Fork State Park and the Muskingum Conservancy lands and that they, the landowners, are not opposed to drilling, they just want to be treated fairly. Reps. Hall and Thompson said that given the feedback at the meeting, adjustments might need to made on this issue and that House Bill 133 needs more work. House Bill 133 Summary • Creates the Oil and Gas Leasing Commission to oversee and facilitate the leasing of land that is owned or controlled by a state agency, including a state university, for the purpose of the exploration for, development of, and production of oil and natural gas resources. • Repeals prior authority for certain state agencies to enter into oil and natural gas leases. • Establishes four classifications for all property that is owned or controlled by a state agency, and requires each state agency to inventory and classify each parcel of land that is owned or controlled by the agency. • Prohibits a state nature preserve from being nominated or leased under the act for the purpose of exploring for and developing and pro-

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ducing oil and natural gas. • Authorizes a state agency, beginning on the act’s effective date (Sept. 11. 2011) and ending on the effective date of the rules adopted by the Commission under the act, and in consultation with the Commission, to lease a formation within a parcel of land that is owned or controlled by the state agency for oil and gas drilling.

“NUMBER OF PATIENTS INCREASING” from pg. 18 consolidated field office. “Mercy Medical Center is a preferred provider for the Utica Shale oil and gas industry,” said Frustaci. “The biggest push has been in Carroll County, so far. But, oil and gas activity is also picking up in Tuscarawas county, so patient numbers are also growing there too.” Richard Regula, director of market outreach for Mercy Medical Center, said he reached out to people in the gas and oil industry to make them feel welcome in the area and to let them know their needs will be accommodated. “The people I talked to told me since they are not welcome in New York and there was a lot of prejudice against them in Pennsylvania, they were relieved to receive a welcome in Ohio,” said Regula. “And, once I started to research and learn more about the needs of the industry, I was surprised. I had thought more emergency room facilities would be needed. But, since these companies take such good safety measures — they have good safety records. What I found that they will need more of, is family medicine. These workers are moving their whole families here and are happy to be doing so, and they intend to stay here for a long time.”

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s part of its continuing effort to aid regional businesses in gaining access to the economic opportunities presented by the Marcellus and Utica shale, the leadership of the Ohio Valley Oil & Gas Association has added two staff members. Lisa Duvall has been named as industry and community relations director, and Tricia Zaccagnini has been named as membership renewal and event manager. “The impact of the Marcellus and Utica shale drilling is enormous in this region,” said Matt Steele, OVOGA board president. “The mission of the OVOGA is to educate our members, provide networking opportunities and help businesses grow. Lisa and Tricia will play integral roles in this.” “The OVOGA is pleased to have professionals of this caliber join our team and help position our members in the forefront of the shale gas revolution,” said Josh Gasber, vice president of the OVOGA board of directors. “The shale industry represents a tremendous opportunity for this area,” Duvall said, “and I look forward to helping members of the OVOGA make the connections that lead to growth.” “With the influx of oil- and gas-related companies and people in the Ohio Valley, I am proud to be a part of the OVOGA which promotes Valley businesses and organizations to those new residents,” Zaccagnini said. “I find it an admirable concept

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Rost. Together with classmate Parker Black and seventh-grader, Will Ford, the boys began working on the project last summer as one of the teams in a STEM competition. (STEM is an acronym for “science, technology, engineering, mathematics.”) If they win, they each will receive a week at Disney World and a $2,000 scholarship. They are keeping the details of their project a little close to the vest because they may be aiming even higher than the competition. “They’re considering [patenting the process],” said Jeanette Rost, the group’s adviser and Derek’s mother. A teacher at Brook Elementary School, Mrs. Rost had learned of the competition while watching the Today Show during a snow day last year. Although she and the other parents encouraged the boys, they were the ones who took the idea and ran with it. When they were brainstorming ideas for a project, the boys were

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t was a busy night for Bethesda Village Council members recently as members signed a contract with LBG Water Services LLC to sell water from the village reservoir to be sold to local fracking companies. Jim Harber from LBG Land Services LLC of New Philadelphia, Ohio presented council with a oneyear contract for the village to sell Cathryn Stanley water from the reservoir at a price Barnesville Bureau of $5 per one thousand gallons. The contract states that there is a one-year minimum of 10,000,000 gallons to be purchased and a $500 per month fee to be paid to Bethesda for each month LBG does not purchase water after the staging area pumping station is set up. Council and Mayor Marty Lucas had various suggestions and questions. They agreed on the following changes to the contract: LBG will repair or replace roads that have been torn up

by the water transport trucks; LBG will install their staging area for pumping by March 1st 2013, and LBG will pay for the staging area dirt work to be completed. Davis suggested a local person to dig the dirt for the staging area. Davis said that person was already providing that service for water service companies. Mayor Lucas asked Harber to look at the staging area (below the reservoir) with the street committee to discuss options for the best ingress and egress of the staging area. “I need you guys to tell me what will work and I will work around that,” Harber said. “This is your community. I want to buy water and you want to sell water. I want to respect your community and cause as little headaches as possible.” He said the staging area will contain four frack tanks (40 feet long by 8 feet wide) side by side. Each tank holds 25,000 gallons of water. He estimated that 10 to 30 trucks would come in and out of the area each day, Monday through Saturday. He said they operated

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he Cambridge Alumni and Friends Educational Fund received a considerable boost in the dollar amount it was able to award to four Cambridge schools through the organization’s annual grant program. A check for $1,000 from EQT Corporation was presented to Tim Evancho, Cambridge Alumni and Friends trustee, by Jessica Baker, EQT community advisor, at Rea & Associates in Cambridge, office of Alumni and Friends Trustee Maribeth Wright. This is the third donation EQT has made to Guernsey County entities this month. “EQT Corp. places heavy emphasis on literacy and education. We are pleased to partner with Cambridge Alumni and Friends to provide new books for Cambridge area schools,” said Baker. “The donation is from the company’s local giving program.” Recipients of the 2013 awards are: • Marguerite Younker, Cambridge Middle School and South Elementary, $1,000 for current books for school libraries • Alisha Colon, South Elementary School, laptops for learning,

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everance taxes, the Ohio Turnpike and agriculture nutrient pollution are among the policy initiatives in the spotlight for The Ohio Farmers Union, a 5,000 member family farm and consumer advocacy group. New state and federal level public policy positions are made by OFU each year at its annual convention. Gone from last year’s policy list is a call for a moratorium on fracking in Ohio until the U.S. EPA issues a report on horizontal drilling’s effects on the environment. “We’ve removed our moratorium request due to the fact that the EPA report is still not complete. We have members in shale counties who stand to benefit from responsible welldrilling, but we also have members greatly concerned about what we don’t know about what fracking will do to water supplies,” said Roger Wise, OFU president. “We will continue to urge lawmakers to protect farmers and rural landowners and our air and water first. Our new policy position requests that the U.S. EPA include water quality in its ongoing study.” At the state level, OFU is supporting Gov. John Kasich’s Ohio Turnpike plan with two caveats: First, that northern

Ohio be defined as territory north of U.S. 224 and second that the Ohio General Assembly codify Administration pledges to keep 90 percent or more of Turnpike bond and other revenue in northern Ohio. OFU is also supportive of raising severance taxes in the state, but differs with Kasich on where new revenue should go. “Shale counties should see some of that severance tax revenue. Keep some of the revenue where it’s collected for public education and infrastructure. We know from other states that roads are going to be torn up in drilling areas, let’s make sure we rebuild them,” Wise said. OFU is also calling for some severance tax revenue to be set aside for environmental mitigation. Wise also said the group will ask Kasich and legislators to add so-called Natural Gas Liquids to the list of items taxed. “Conspicuously absent from the governor’s first severance tax proposal were Natural Gas Liquids – the most valuable resource coming out of the well. Why Ohio would tax silver, but not gold, that’s a question for the governor and the Ohio General Assembly. It appears to be a gift to ‘Big Oil & Gas’,” Continued on pg. 57

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“OHIO FARMERS UNION” from pg. 56 Wise said. OFU will also advocate this year for updates to Ohio’s grain indemnity law. The Grain Indemnity Fund is a producer-funded Ohio Dept. of Agriculture program that keeps farmers whole in the event of a grain elevator failure. No tax dollars or general revenue funds are used to maintain the inspection program or emergency fund. “FRACKING SECRECY ILLEGAL” from pg. 48 ment. “However, ODNR maintains that we have the most stringent chemical reporting requirements in the nation.” Environmental groups have long voiced concern about the lack of public disclosure of the specific chemicals used in fracking. The issue has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, after an incident in Youngstown involving the illegal dumping of oilfield waste into a storm sewer and subsequent federal criminal charges filed against the business owner involved. State Rep. Bob Hagan, a Democrat from Youngstown, has complained publicly about the lack of information about the chemical composition of the dumped fluids and has introduced legislation that would require increased disclosure. Teresa Mills, field director for the Ohio office of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, who filed the petition with the U.S. EPA, said oil and gas companies, under federal law, already

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Energy revolution a ‘game changer’

he Ohio Petroleum Council (OPC) applauded Governor Kasich’s third State of the State address and said that Ohio’s burgeoning oil and natural gas industry is well positioned to advance the administration’s goals of continued economic growth and job creation. “Ohio’s oil and natural gas industry is a proven game-changer in the state’s economic resurgence,” said OPC Legislative Analyst Robert Eshenbaugh. “The arrival of shale energy development and production in Ohio has brought tens of thousands of new high paying jobs and the promise of a bright economic future for hard working Ohio families. Our industry not only shares the governor’s desire for progress, we are leading the way.” In 2012, more than 38,380 high paying Ohio jobs were directly attributed to oil and natural gas activity. These jobs are expected to increase to 143,595 by 2020 and to 266,624 by 2035, according to a recent study by the global information and research firm IHS. “We are encouraged by the governor’s focus on shale energy,” said Eshenbaugh. “We will continue to work closely with the ad-

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Proponents urge lawmakers to expand natural undreds of members of the Ohio Petroleum Council, gas development Ohio Oil and Gas Association and Ohio Shale Coalition

urged state legislators to expand natural gas development in the state. “Investments in oil and natural gas are refueling Ohio’s economy,” said OPC Legislative Director Robert Eshenbaugh. “Ohio’s energy revolution took off because lawmakers matched prudent fiscal policies with smart and effective regulation. The legislature should build on recent success by allowing greater development of Ohio’s vast natural gas reserves.”

Eshenbaugh addressed more than 200 oil and natural gas advocates, workers, employers and representatives from Ohio’s growing oil and natural gas industry in the Capitol Atrium, as part of the industry’s Oil and Gas Lobby Day on Jan. 23. The event focused on the expanding development of Ohio’s vast natural gas reserves that is revitalizing the state’s economically distressed eastern region and creating thousands of good paying jobs across the state.

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A USB flash (thumb) drive is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. “Mapping will help us find any residence and evacuation routes. This thumb drive will be extremely helpful. Hopefully, we will never have to use it,” said Deeks. EQT Corp. is one of the largest and oldest natural gas producers in the Appalachian Basin operating in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio.

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Petroleum Council says pipeline will create Ohio jobs

he Ohio Petroleum Council (OPC) has applauded the Ohio House of Representatives’ passage of HCR 9, a resolution urging the federal government to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The resolution now moves to the Ohio Senate for approval. “Today’s vote shows the growing understanding about the game changing opportunity the oil and gas industry can have on Ohio’s working families,” OPC Executive Director Chris Zeigler said. “The White House has an opportunity to approve the pipeline and create thousands of jobs today. This investment in America will also go a long way to generating government revenue in the state while enhancing the nation’s energy security.” “The combined economic benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline and our state’s emerging shale energy industry will provide millions of Ohioans with a real opportunity for long-term job security and economic prosperity,” Zeigler said.

The OPC applauded the resolution to approve the pipeline, sponsored by Rep. John Adams and supported by Chairman Mike Dovilla, as a step forward in helping fuel job and economic growth in the state. It also noted that the pipeline will increase Ohio’s GDP by $9.6 billion over the next 25 years, according to Canadian Economic Research Institute. Last year alone, Ohio’s oil and gas industry created more than 38,000 new jobs and projections indicate the industry will create over 266,000 additional jobs by 2035. OPC is an arm of API, which represents all segments of America’s technology-driven oil and natural gas industry. Its more than 500 members provide most of the nation’s energy. The industry also supports 9.2 million U.S. jobs and 7.7 percent of the U.S. economy, delivers $85 million a day in revenue to our government, and since 2000, has invested over $2 trillion in U.S. capital projects to advance all forms of energy, including alternatives.

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hris Zeigler, former chief of staff to Congressman Pat Tiberi, is the Ohio Petroleum Council’s new executive director, the American Petroleum Institute announced. “Zeigler joins the council at one of the most exciting times in Ohio’s energy history,” said API Senior Director of State Relations Rolf Hanson. “Ohio is poised to become one of the nation’s leading energy producers, which can be an enormous economic benefit for the state. Zeigler will be focused on fostering smart regulations and fiscal policies to sustain the economic prosperity that shale energy development offers hard working Ohio families.” Zeigler, who brings over 20 years of experience in successfully bringing together diverse groups of government, civic and business stakeholders, will lead OPC’s advocacy efforts and serve as principal spokesperson. In addition to serving as Congressman Tiberi’s chief of staff since 2001, Zeigler has worked for several Ohio legislators, including former Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson.

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