Tag: ODNR

Ohio business owner ordered to pay $200K for ‘mishandling oil field waste’

Judge Thomas Harris of Ashtabula common pleas court ordered Richard Morrow, who owns RWC Properties and Circle M Oilfield Transportation, to pay $200,000 for polluting the environment by illegally burning and mishandling oil field waste, according to Farm and Dairy. In 2017, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency reported seeing Morrow burning waste in large storage

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ODNR issues 17 permits for Ohio’s Utica Shale

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources approved 17 permits for wells in Ohio’s Utica Shale during the week ended May 25, according to The Youngstown Business Journal. The permit breakdown is as follows: Ascent Resources Utica LLC received eight permits for six wells in Jefferson County and two in Belmont County, Rice Drilling LLC received

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