Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anti-fracking activists put up signs outside the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management meeting on Aug. 12 (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio ...

An Ohio commission approved land in an eastern Ohio wildlife area for fracking at its meeting on Monday, over shouts of "boo" and "shame" from protesters in the audience. The Oil and Gas Land ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – State officials on Friday selected Houston-based Encino Energy as the winning bidder to frack for oil and gas beneath 62.5 acres of Leesville Wildlife Area. Encino will pay a $219,000 ...

A Texas-based company was chosen as the highest and best bid to frack about 170 acres of Leesville Wildlife Area during this month’s Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission meeting.

A Texas-based company was chosen as the “highest and best” to lease land in Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County for fracking at Friday’s Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management meeting. Encino Energy ...

MWCD's board of directors is expected to consider an oil and gas lease agreement with Encino Energy's Ohio affiliate at its meeting Friday. MWCD director Craig Butler says the lease will have ...

NEW PHILADELPHIA ‒ The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District will begin leasing its lands at Leesville Lake for oil and gas fracking. Conservancy district staff is still negotiating terms of the ...

Texas-based Encino Energy wants to establish new oil and gas wells on Leesville Lake lands owned by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District in Carroll County. The conservancy district's board of ...