Two state parks and two wildlife areas could be opened to oil and gas exploration.
a $115 million signing bonus and 20% royalty payments worth a projected additional $1.8 billion by 2041 to access the gas under Salt Fork. State records show a whopping 95 lobbyists are registered to lobby the OGLMC on behalf of companies including Encino, EQT Corp., Ascent Resources, Calpine Energy Solutions, Marathon Petroleum, TC Energy, Shell, BP, Gulfport Energy Corp, the Ohio Association of Realtors, and more.
Others have fought to stop the drilling before it starts. The Ohio Environmental Council filed a lawsuit in April seeking to stop the new law from taking effect. The case is pending, but a Franklin County judgeMeanwhile, Save Ohio Parks, a grassroots organization comprised of several environmental activists, has waged a public relations and letter-writing campaign seeking to stop or slow the leasing process.
While the new law allows for surface interruptions on state lands, DeWine has pledged his administration would not allow as much in any state parks. At a practical level, this means that if the commission allows fracking in state parks to move forward, drilling would happen on private property around the parks. From there, drillers would drill thousands of feet underground before turning horizontally to free oil and gas through the process of hydraulic fracturing, better known as “fracking.
Daniel Sherwood is an editor with The Capitol Forum Upstream, which tracks and analyzes gas production in the Appalachian Basin. He noticed two geologic trends in the lease applications.
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