If you’re one of the hundreds of people in Cuyahoga County who have decided to drill a natural gas well in your backyard, you may want to read this. When Scene ran a story recently chronicling the new suburban oil and gas boom (“The Gates Millbillies”, the guys in the drilling business boasted that putting in a well was 100 percent safe. The chance of your house exploding because of a nearby well, they said, was next to nothing. …
This article appears in Dec 12-18, 2007.