<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#0000ff">George,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Thank you! I am so glad to get the letter published. Originally, you wanted me to write letters for four months. But this email suggests you are encouraging others, which I think is a better idea. Someone else would be more likely to get published. Let me know when you want me to write another letter.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#0000ff">Maggie<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 4:47 PM Vic Elam via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Great job Maggie. <div>George, I am willing to do the next LTE. </div><div>Vic</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">When the Earth, its products, its creatures become his concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and live with humility and reverence. - William O. Douglas</div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 11:07 AM gbanz42--- via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Green Sanctuary Committee:<br>
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Maggie Meyer's most excellent LTE on injection wells was published in today's edition of the Marietta Times (attached). Thank you, Maggie!<br>
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I suggest we keep up a drum beat of information about this little-known and highly dangerous practice of injecting brine waste in Washington County. The companies doing this practice are not transparent, have been given a virtual blank check by ODNR, and are exposing our county residents to environmental and health hazards. <br>
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My specific suggestion is that someone else on Green Sanctuary (I am at risk of over-exposure since I just had an LTE in the MTimes) point out in an LTE that the brine waste business contributes almost nothing to the economic development and job growth in our region. Their profits go outside the region (Deep Rock is owned by a Pennsylvania company). The little that they provide in the way of jobs in the form of truckers who transport brine waste to injection wells will be eliminated when they start transporting by barge. As you may recall the USACE approved Deep Rock's request for a permit for a barge off-load facility just outside Marietta. <br>
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In addition to the point about the economy and jobs above, the letter writer can use items from the talking points that I have also attached.<br>
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Please let me know who is willing to submit the next LTE on this topic. <br>
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