----- The Coshocton Tribune reports that Longaberger has laid off 80 employees.(h/t DailyJobCuts)
----- Strongsville Patch notes the closing of the Franklin Covey Store in Strongsville, Ohio.(h/t DailyJobCuts)
* Residents in northeastern Ohio want answers about the recent earthquakes they've experienced. Even though experts have started to evaluate the cause of the quakes, oil and gas companies appear to be preparing to dismiss their findings, in a statement from a spokesman for D&L Energy, Vince Bevacqua.
FuelFix:
Boos, applause and the occasional outburst marked a gathering of about 500 northeast Ohioans seeking explanations Wednesday for a series of earthquakes that has hit their area since deep injection drilling came to town.
At a news conference after the forum, the company that voluntarily shut down an oil and gas wastewater well to study any links to the quakes urged caution in accepting a seismologist’s finding that their injection well almost certainly caused the quakes....
In a state investigation into 11 earthquakes in the region this year, Columbia University seismologist John Armbruster said that the injection of thousands of gallons of brine wastewater daily into the injection well on Youngstown’s west side almost certainly caused the quakes. State officials said they believed the well activity caused pressure to build near a fault line and led to the seismic activity......
The oil and gas companies will have their own findings.
***** Mitt Romney must be accustomed to the good life, seeing how he gets his shoes shined on the tarmac at the airport (h/t winningourfuture and sayitaintsoalready.com)
