Concerns aired about test site
By LEE MORRISON
The Times-Reporter
PORT WASHINGTON - Questions poured in from about 100 area residents wanting to know more about a proposed deep-well research project near Port Washington.
The Ohio Borehole Project was the topic of a public information session Thursday at Tuscarawas Campus of Kent State University at New Philadelphia. The session lasted more than 2 1/2 hours.
Sean Logan, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, was among the speakers. In March, ODNR announced the project which calls for drilling a 9,000-foot-deep well at a site north of Rt. 36 between Gnadenhutten and Port Washington. The test well would determine if carbon dioxide could be stored there far beneath the 750-acre site owned by Holmes Limestone Co. of Berlin. However, officials stressed that there are no plans to permanently store carbon dioxide at the site during the research....Read more.
The Times-Reporter
PORT WASHINGTON - Questions poured in from about 100 area residents wanting to know more about a proposed deep-well research project near Port Washington.
The Ohio Borehole Project was the topic of a public information session Thursday at Tuscarawas Campus of Kent State University at New Philadelphia. The session lasted more than 2 1/2 hours.
Sean Logan, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, was among the speakers. In March, ODNR announced the project which calls for drilling a 9,000-foot-deep well at a site north of Rt. 36 between Gnadenhutten and Port Washington. The test well would determine if carbon dioxide could be stored there far beneath the 750-acre site owned by Holmes Limestone Co. of Berlin. However, officials stressed that there are no plans to permanently store carbon dioxide at the site during the research....Read more.
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