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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| State says it’s waiting for report on possible connection between quakes and wells. |
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By Karen Kasler - January 13, 2012 |
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The state is joining the oil and gas drilling industry in calling on the public to be cautious in making a connection between earthquakes in northeast Ohio and injection wells that hold wastewater from drilling operations. Representatives from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources met with hundreds of residents this week in Youngstown – an area that’s been rocked by 11 earthquakes since March. ODNR director Jim Zehringer says the state has ordered five deep injection wells in the area shut down for now while they investigate whether there’s a correlation between the quakes and the wells – especially one that’s near a fault line. |
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Jim Zehringer (:15) 
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| There are 177 injection wells in Ohio, and drilling operators are required by state law to dispose of their waste fluids in those wells. Zehringer says it would be devastating to the oil and gas industry if all these wells were shut down, and he says there have been no problems with injection wells in Ohio for more than 30 years. You can hear more of this interview this weekend on “The State of Ohio” on PBS stations around the state or at the link on the left. |
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