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Ohio Looks to 'Do It Right' as Shale Boom Revives Steel Originally published on Environment & Energy Publishing - http://www.eenews.net/Peter Behr, E&E reporter March, 13, 2012 CANTON, Ohio -- In an eruption of flame and smoke, 90 tons of scrap steel drops into a furnace at Timken Co.'s Faircrest steel plant here, the start of its transformation into rows of seamless steel tubing that will be thrust below ground to deliver natural gas…See More

Ohio Looks to 'Do It Right' as Shale Boom Revives Steel Originally published on Environment & Energy Publishing - http://www.eenews.net/Peter Behr, E&E reporter March, 13, 2012CANTON, Ohio -- In an eruption of flame and smoke, 90 tons of scrap steel drops into a furnace at Timken Co.'s Faircrest steel plant here, the start of its transformation into rows of seamless steel tubing that will be thrust below ground to deliver natural gas…See More

Towns See Crime, Carousing Surge Amid Gas BoomOctober 26, 2011 — TOWANDA, Pa. (AP) — In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work.Authorities in Pennsylvania and other states are quick to point out that the vast majority of…See More

Towns See crime, Carousing Surge Amid Gas BoomOctober 26, 2011 — TOWANDA, Pa. (AP) — In a modern-day echo of the raucous Old West, small towns enjoying a boom in oil and gas drilling are seeing a sharp increase in drunken driving, bar fights and other hell-raising, blamed largely on an influx of young men who find themselves with lots of money in their pockets and nothing to do after they get off work.Authorities in Pennsylvania and other states are quick to point out that the vast majority of…See More

October 5, 2011 10:33 pm US Shale Gas Bonanza: New Wells to Draw OnBy Ed CrooksNow the technology exists to extract the reserves, the promise is of an industrial renaissanceIn eastern Ohio, brand-new tractors have been zooming off the dealers’ lots, snapped up by local farmers. Suddenly cash-rich after being showered with bonuses for leasing oil and gas drilling rights on their land, typically worth $1,500-$4,000 an acre, they have been quick to invest their windfalls in new equipment.A few…See More