[Green] Fwd: Save the Date! Mountaineer Underground NGL Storage Hub Meeting

Wed Aug 5 13:38:31 CDT 2020

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Subject: 	Save the Date! Mountaineer Underground NGL Storage Hub Meeting
Date: 	Wed, 05 Aug 2020 16:55:12 +0000 (UTC)
From: 	Concerned Ohio River Residents via ActionNetwork.org 
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Reply-To: 	concernedohioriverresidents at yahoo.com
To: 	annie at bluerockstation.com

Dear neighbor and Concerned Ohio River Resident,

This email is to invite you to an upcoming virtual meeting regarding the 
Mountaineer underground natural gas liquid storage project proposed for 
Monroe County, OH. Read on to learn when the meeting is and why it is 
important.

Communities in Appalachia are at risk due to the planned development of 
the petrochemical and plastic production industry. The Mountaineer NGL 
storage project would develop underground caverns for the storage of 
natural gas liquids (“NGLs”) in the Salina formation. The liquids would 
be stored adjacent to and potentially beneath the Ohio River in Salem 
Township, Monroe County, Ohio. The approximately 200-acre site is one 
mile north of Clarington, OH, whose groundwater wells are only a mile 
away from the proposed storage site. The three solution mining wells are 
proposed to be built on the narrow strip of land between Route 7 and the 
Ohio River, which formerly consisted of coal washing ponds that have 
since been filled. The project would have a working storage capacity of 
3.25 million barrels for storing ethane, butane, and propane. We know 
that at least one of the three pipelines connected to the facility would 
have to go under the Ohio River. Risks to the project involve 
explosions, sinkholes, fires, air pollution, and groundwater contamination.

Join us for a virtual informational meeting to learn more. Save the date!

*Wednesday, August 12th
6:30 - 8pm

Link to access meeting (just type into browser at time of meeting):
bit.ly/MountaineerMeeting 
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Dial-in by phone: 1 (646) 558-8656
Meeting ID: 811 1237 9657
*
*The meeting will be recorded and available for future playback on our 
website 
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**Presented by Concerned Ohio River Residents and Ohio Valley 
Environmental Coalition. Our exert attorney, as well as some advocates 
who have spent a considerable amount of time at the site and researching 
these topics will be on hand to present and answer questions. We will 
discuss the status of the project as well as what we can do as community 
to protect the Ohio River Valley from these threats. If you have been 
following our website, you know that we have good sources to back the 
reasoning behind why these projects are a non-starter. We must, however, 
continue to educate the public on these threats.

To create the first storage cavern, Mountaineer would need to withdraw 
1,728,000 gallons of water from the Ohio River each day for use in 
dissolving salt in the Salina formation. An enormous reservoir is also 
included in the project plans to hold the brine that would be used to 
offset the pressure from the natural gas liquids removed from the 
caverns. There would also be three pipelines- at least one would be 
going underneath the Ohio River from the storage facility. According to 
radioactivity experts, NGL storage facilities and associated 
infrastructure such as pipelines and storage equipment, concentrate 
radioactive material. Migration of radioactive toxins from this storage 
facility and other toxic elements into the air and water are of great 
concern.

NGLs are highly flammable and costly to manage, store, and transport. A 
plume of NGLs poses a particular risk because the vapor is heavier than 
air, and hence, releases from the storage facility would hover in the 
Valley and could impact communities along the Ohio River. The Mont 
Belvieu NGL storage hub in Texas has been plagued with evacuations, 
industrial accidents, repeated chemical leaks and drinking water 
contamination issues and explosions, with one occurring*as recently as 
last week, July 29th, 2020.* Hazardous conditions have been so severe 
that they have caused fatalities and forced the evacuation and even 
permanent relocation of local residents.

NGL storage facilities and related petrochemical processing plants can 
have significant flaring episodes with excessive emissions that can 
cause negative health impacts. In many petrochemical plants and storage 
systems, flaring is used to burn off gases released by pressure relief 
valves when over-pressuring conditions occur in plant equipment. 
Researchers note that gas flaring is a prominent source” of carbon 
monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, polycyclic aromatic 
hydrocarbons, smog-forming volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”), nitrogen 
oxides and soot. Appalachians must look carefully at the history of the 
Mont Belvieu storage complex before they support a similarly dangerous 
project, the Mountaineer planned for their region.

Here are some photos for the proposed location along with some maps that 
we will discuss at the meeting:

Reach out to us with questions!

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