04/22/2024

How Fracking around Ohio’s Salt Fork State Park is Changing the Area

Some ask, 'who's going to want to move here?'

Terri Sabo has a breathtaking view of Salt Fork State Park from her dining room window in Guernsey County. She and her husband Rick Sabo have lived in their ranch home since 1983 — three years after they moved to Cambridge from Canton.

Sabo loves the dark night skies the park provides, but more recently she sees the occasion flare from a fracking injection well about 14 miles away while standing on her front porch.

"We thought we would always have beauty, but Cambridge is so different then the '80s," Sabo said. "I mean, it's so industrialized now and every, every other pickup truck has an Oklahoma or Texas plate. And it's, it's very, very different than it used to be."

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