Steubenville may lease mineral rights beneath landfill
Thursday, February 23, 2012
by Matt Warnock
Steubenville city council members met on Tuesday to discuss legislation that would lease the mineral rights of a formal city landfill to the Hess Corporation for oil and gas drilling, news station WTOV9 reports. If realized, the five-year lease deal would net the city $5,400 per acre of the 117-acre property as well as 19 percent of the royalties, the article said. For more read the full story here.