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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA company is going to search for oil around the Indiana State University campus.
Terre Haute's public works board voted Monday to give permission for a Michigan company to begin seismic testing at several locations on university-owned property near the city's downtown.
University vice president Diann McKee said the testing will be done after the school's homecoming activities the first weekend of October, The Tribune-Star reported.
A city zoning board earlier this month approved the university's request for oil exploration at a former industrial site on campus near a site that yielded large amounts of oil more than a century ago.
Numerous other oil wells are in operation around Terre Haute and a large discovery last year contributed to Indiana's oil production hitting a 10-year high in 2011.
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