For months energy companies have been courting the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, hoping to come to terms on the sale of water to be used in "fracking" oil and gas wells in eastern Ohio.
Each time, the district, which covers 20 percent of Ohio, has said nothing could be done until this summer. But this Friday, leadership is expected to present an emergency plan to provide water access to one company, Gulfport Energy, for its well near Clendening Lake in Harrison County.
Last summer, the district leased its mineral rights at the site of that well to Gulfport in exchange for $15.6 million, as well as a percentage of whatever oil and gas is produced from that well pad.
Mansfield News Journal
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