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Event: NE Ohio Farmers Union Members to Hold Fracking Information Meeting

September 23, 2011 By Ron Sylvester Leave a Comment

What Fracking will Mean to Us

Monday, September 26, 2011

7-9pm

Colebrook Community Center

Colebrook (northeast corner of state routes 322 and 46)

Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake Counties Farmers Union and Trumbull County Farmers Union are presenting a joint educational meeting: What Fracking will Mean to Us? Fracking is short for hydraulic fracturing – a drilling method employed to extract natural gas or oil from wells in hard rock strata thousands of feet below the ground. Fracking will be used during the drilling of the Marcellus and Utica shales in Eastern Ohio for natural gas extraction.

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Ashtabula, Fracking, Geauga, Joe Logan, Lake Counties Farmers Union, Mardy Townsend, Natural Gas, NEOGAP, Ohio Farmers Union, Trumbull County Farmers Union, Vanessa Pesec

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