Owner of Mineral Rights Could Decide Future of Gas Well on Church Property
Fracking appears to have started at a well at the Church of New Hope and the city is looking at options to stop the operation.
Stow City Council decided in August that it would not accept a contract to lease mineral rights for eight-tenths of a piece of city land needed to make a PEP Drilling hydraulic fracturing well deeper at the Church of New Hope. But the current well that was already dug prior to council's decision remained on the property and it seems as if the drilling company has decided to begin fracking despite council's decision in August. Law Director Brian Reali said he found out last week that the state of Ohio approved a new application for the driller. He said it was obtained because the company got leases from property owners on Ritchie Road. The application was also obtained because PEP Drilling is now claiming that the city merely owns the …
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Melissa Bysura
10:52 am on Sunday, November 18, 2012
All the people who fought so hard against the well being drilled in the first place have been vindicated. This is a black eye for the city council. more ›