Muskingum Watershed Taken to Court by Anti-Frackers (Yawn)
MDN has long chronicled the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District's (MWCD) challenges with selling a relative thimble-full of its vast water supplies to Utica Shale drillers. Not only are they now selling water, they've leased a good number of acres for drilling--some of it under lakes and reservoirs. That really ticks off the eco-nuts.
Anti-frackers have thrown tantrums and have done their darnedest to stop the MWCD from allowing drilling and from selling water to frackers--for a time they even bullied them into a retreat (see Muskingum Watershed Reverses Decision to Sell Water to Drillers)--but ultimately the anti-frackers have failed. So now it's off to court to see if they can convince a liberal judge somewhere to put the breaks on progress in Ohio...
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