<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">George-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">great letter.. My only concern regarding reaching your readers are your "big words" in the first sentence of second paragraph. "Pernicious" is not in my vocabulary - I get the idea but don't hear or use that word regularly or the word "despoilment".. Again, I can figure it out.. but not words we use every day. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"> I looked up Pernicious in Mirriam webster online dict. and syn. choice and saw this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(48,51,54);letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">Pernicious</span><span style="color:rgb(48,51,54);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>has largely stayed true to its etymological root, the Latin noun<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(48,51,54);letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">pernicies</span><span style="color:rgb(48,51,54);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">“ruin, destruction.” Its original meaning in English, “highly<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/injurious" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;color:rgb(38,86,103);text-decoration:none;background-image:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(151,190,206) 100%,transparent 0px);background-size:3px 1px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px;background-position:0px 1.15em">injurious</a><span style="color:rgb(48,51,54);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>or destructive,” usually applies to things (“pernicious apathy,” “pernicious effects”) and medical conditions (“pernicious fever,”<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pernicious+anemia" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;color:rgb(38,86,103);text-decoration:none;background-image:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(151,190,206) 100%,transparent 0px);background-size:3px 1px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px;background-position:0px 1.15em">“pernicious anemia”</a><span style="color:rgb(48,51,54);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">). When applied to people,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-style:italic;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(48,51,54);letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">pernicious</span><span style="color:rgb(48,51,54);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>means “wicked.”</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(48,51,54);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">And, yes, George, it is the perfect word! so keep it if you like.. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#303336" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">Wondering if you'd want to me more straight forward and start with the issue Injecting brine waste is ....highly </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#303336" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#303336" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">Just a thought. Please don't feel you need to change anything- It's great. So glad you're writing this. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#303336" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="letter-spacing:0.20000000298023224px">Cindy</span></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 9:51 AM gbanz42--- 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">GSC,<br>
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I have composed the attached draft letter to the editor about the public meeting scheduled for June 2 about the proposed new injection well in Little Hocking.<br>
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I would welcome any comments/edits. Please send suggestions for changes to me by Wednesday this week. <br>
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If you make changes in the document itself, please rename, let me know the changes you made, it and return to me. <br>
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Thanks.<br>
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George Banziger<br>
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Marietta, OH 45750-1111<br>
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