The eastern Ohio city of Steubenville accepted a $1.1 million bid to lease about 157 acres of its own land for fracking during Tuesday’s city council meeting. Steubenville City Council voted to lease 19 parcels to Oklahoma-based Ascent Resources – Utica, said Steubenville resident Greg Burrier, who was at the city council meeting. This is the first time Save Ohio Parks has heard of an Ohio city seeking bids to frack its own public land. “The state is very, I guess, determined to lease out its state public lands for fracking, it’s probably not a surprise that some cities are looking at that as well.” The Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission recently approved bids to frack more than 15,000 acres of Ohio’s public land — including nearly 13,000 acres in Egypt Valley Wildlife Area, which is about an hour from Steubenville.