Gov. Kasich tells Bob Black: Pennsylvania should pay Ohio for br - 21 News Now, More Local News for Youngstown, Ohio -

21 News anchor Bob Black recently sat down with Ohio Governor John Kasich to discuss the importance of the shale boom in Ohio and the Mahoning Valley. One of the pressing concerns on the governor's mind is the disposal of the so-called "brine," a waste product of drilling.

Right now, Pennsylvania trucks 90% of its brine waste water into Ohio which is better suited geologically to accommodate it.

Ohio cannot stop Pennsylvania for sending its brine waste to the Buckeye state, but Kasich says he intends to make Pennsylvania pay for it.

The governor says he's "aggravated" by the fact that Pennsylvania can dispose of brine in Ohio, but interstate commerce laws make it legal.

Still, Kasich thinks "there are certain costs imposed on the state of Ohio by their activity" and says he'll "make them pay for that."

The governor says he's unsure right now what form his effort to make Pennsylvania pay will take, but says his administration is looking at ideas and adds, "they're going to pay for what they make us do."

Another by-product of deep well injection drilling appears to be a series of earthquakes experienced by the Youngstown area last year.

Earlier this month, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources put the cause of a New Year's Eve earthquake at the doorstep of a Youngstown well.

While the company operating well says it's doing its own study and the ODNR's conclusions are premature, the governor believes the well should be permanently shutdown, saying, "it was drilled too deep and ended up probably being on a fault line. We shut all the wells down within a five mile radius and we're saying to people, you're going to operate where we believe the land is stable."

With strict regulations and close monitoring, Governor Kasich says he is not as concerned with the impact of deep injection brine disposal wells. His greater fear is older abandoned wells.

The governor says the so-called "orphan wells" have been in the ground for decades and "were not constructed right and were abandoned." Kasich says he worries "about those wells contaminating the ground water." He says he's asked ODNR to plug them.

Bob will continue his interview with the Governor Kasich this week on 21 News at 6 & 11. Check back here for updates.