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Editor, News-Register:
For landowners, farmers and community members who rely on the land, every day is Earth Day. We hope others use the recent holiday to celebrate energy coming from right under our feet in Ohio.
Right now, many in the world are focused on the energy crisis unfolding in front of us. Those who have never before wondered where the gasoline at the pump comes from, or how our homes are heated in the winter, are now paying attention to the natural gas industry.
This essential energy is not new to Ohio, which had a front row seat to the Utica Shale boom and has seen first hand the benefits it's brought to our region. Just between the years of 2016 and 2026, the industry is expected to pay more than $200 million in property taxes, 70% of which goes into local schools.
Ohioans have seen how the producers of natural gas balance caring for the land we all call home and reaching the critical resources that are contained within it. The Utica Shale region has become one of the largest natural gas producers in the nation, at the same time carbon dioxide emissions of Ohio's electric generation have been reduced 38 percent. The industry is heavily regulated, allowing for clean, reliable energy that serves us locally and throughout the nation.
For many of us, natural gas is a business, but we ask that people look at the resources Ohio's land holds and the numerous ways everyone uses them in our everyday lives.
Adrienne Robbins
Spokesperson, The Utica Energy Alliance