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Youngstown
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Kasich:
Bill is tough but fair
Tue, June
12, 2012
By Marc
Kovac
AKRON -
Gov. John Kasich touted energy legislation signed into law Monday as
tough but
fair, protecting the environment while setting the stage for economic
development.
“We were
not going to develop shale gas at the expense of the environment,”
Kasich said.
“And we have contained in this bill the most aggressive, clearest,
fairest and
strongest fracking regulations that you can find anywhere in the
country.”
He added
later, “We have, without any doubt, the toughest law on fracking fluid
in
America.”
The
comments came just before the governor added his signature to Senate
Bill 315,
lengthy legislation that included policy proposals related to advanced
and
renewe-able energy, water conservation and waste- water treatment.
Kasich
signed the bill in Akron at Echogen Power Systems, a company that has
developed
an apparatus that converts waste heat from industrial operations into
energy.
The legislation includes provisions to promote the use of such
technologies.
“You’re
generating this waste heat,” he said. “It goes up into the environment.
...
It’s going up, and now you can capture it, you can clean the
environment and
generate the ability for more power for the companies. They save money,
the
environment is cleaner and we can meet our standards in a way in which
we don’t
have to buy more expensive power.”
Sections of
the bill related to horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,
generated
much public debate in recent months.
The law
changes will require increased disclosure of fracking chemicals and
water
usage, water well sampling within 1,500 feet of proposed horizontal
wells and
so-called “cradle-to-grave” documentation and tracking of oil and gas
wells
from the time they are started until they are capped.
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