What rights do local governmental leaders and citizens have when it comes to potentially toxic waste being dumped in proximity to their homes?
Say Goodbye to Your Rights?
According to a report in the Mansfield News Journal, an attorney for the company (Preferred Fluids Management of Austin, Texas) that has proposed two injection sites in Mansfield, Ohio's industrial park, citizens and city leaders have absolutely no rights.
Who Gets to Decide for You?
The PFM attorney states that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Mineral Resources Management has sole jurisdiction and the city can neither limit nor prohibit the injection sites if the state's ODNR opts to allow the sites.
Zoning
It is also stated that the industrial park's zoning (general impact industrial use) allows the injection wells - further depleting rights of Mansfield, Ohio citizens.
Is the Brine Toxic?
The News Journal report also notes that the sites would be accepting up to 150,000 barrels of non-toxic fluid per month. The non-toxic part of the claim is interesting in light of the EPA's recent findings of contaminated groundwater from monitoring wells the agency set near hydro-fractured wells.
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Fracking Jobs in North Dakota
Another not-Ohio-centric post, but interesting.
According to one recent report, a small town in North Dakota has more jobs than it can be filled thanks to a frac-drilling boom. The report says for every job filled, another 1.5 jobs open up. The town's unemployment rate is less than 1% compared to over 9% for the rest of the US. The comments at the end of the article are almost more interesting than the article.
I can't and wouldn't argue the benefit of bringing jobs to any community, as mentioned before, my concerns are related to the environmental impact.
I still believe it is unethical to take fracking to the large scale it is rapidly reaching when it is so fraught with risk - but that is just my personal view and obviously a different view than the one held by big oil and the government, and apparently, the majority of those reading the linked report.
According to one recent report, a small town in North Dakota has more jobs than it can be filled thanks to a frac-drilling boom. The report says for every job filled, another 1.5 jobs open up. The town's unemployment rate is less than 1% compared to over 9% for the rest of the US. The comments at the end of the article are almost more interesting than the article.
I can't and wouldn't argue the benefit of bringing jobs to any community, as mentioned before, my concerns are related to the environmental impact.
I still believe it is unethical to take fracking to the large scale it is rapidly reaching when it is so fraught with risk - but that is just my personal view and obviously a different view than the one held by big oil and the government, and apparently, the majority of those reading the linked report.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Pennsylvania Fracking Brine Dumped in Ohio
Awareness of brine dumping in Ohio is growing, but getting citizens to comprehend the severity of the problem is a challenge. Dumping brine into wells dug in the 1960's and 1970's, that contaminated the water by breaking through the water table when drilled, are unproven as secure brine containment vessels.
June 20th newspaper article about the issue.
Ohio taking in flood of Pennsylvania's toxic brine for disposal
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