ELLSWORTH Township, Ohio – Heavy dump trucks arrive every five minutes or so;
about lunchtime, they’re lined up five-deep, waiting to deposit their limestone
loads where Consol Energy is building its first shale well pad in Mahoning
County.
It’s the first day of the trucks traveling back and forth from the limestone quarries in Petersburg to the Hendricks farm off Western Reserve Road here. A guard at the gate checks each truck in and out as men from a sign-making company work off to one side of the gravel-road entrance, posting identifying signs and preparing safety warnings they’ll hang 2,000 feet from the entrance, where the well pad is being built.
“This stone is coming right here from the good old USA,” says one of the truck drivers with a wide, satisfied grin.
“This is my fifth load today,” says another. “I’ll probably bring three more.”
Consol received a drilling permit for the Hendricks well in November from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The company dug a six-million gallon pond at the site – but construction of the well pad did not begin until last week, one day after Consol held an open house, inviting neighbors and elected officials to an informal Q&A session at the Holiday Inn Boardman.
It’s the first day of the trucks traveling back and forth from the limestone quarries in Petersburg to the Hendricks farm off Western Reserve Road here. A guard at the gate checks each truck in and out as men from a sign-making company work off to one side of the gravel-road entrance, posting identifying signs and preparing safety warnings they’ll hang 2,000 feet from the entrance, where the well pad is being built.
“This stone is coming right here from the good old USA,” says one of the truck drivers with a wide, satisfied grin.
“This is my fifth load today,” says another. “I’ll probably bring three more.”
Consol received a drilling permit for the Hendricks well in November from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The company dug a six-million gallon pond at the site – but construction of the well pad did not begin until last week, one day after Consol held an open house, inviting neighbors and elected officials to an informal Q&A session at the Holiday Inn Boardman.
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