Under the agreement, Amazon gets 15 years of 100% tax breaks and an additional 15 years of a 75% discount on taxes. But the company does have to pay the city at least $352,000 a year with that price increasing over time.
The pro-Issue 1 side had sued over the language approved by Republicans on the Ohio Ballot Board, but this Supreme Court ruling was not exactly what they wanted.
Oil and gas companies flocked to the eastern hills of Ohio, setting up extraction operations in some of the most impoverished areas of Appalachia, and promising profits and jobs. Has fracking delivered?