[Green] Proposed Fracking Offload Facility

[Joe Baker]

VERY WELL DONE, GEORGE! THANK YOU!

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:29 AM gbanz42--- via Green <green at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> Roger:
>
>     I've attached it again. Just to make sure I've copied/pasted it below:
>
>
> May 31, 2020
> To the Editor:
>      I would like to thank Mr. Mike Chadsey, Public Relations Director for
> the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, for trying to cast some light on the
> proposed barge offload facility for waste from hydraulic fracturing to be
> built just south of Marietta. His comments provided in a report which
> appeared in the May 27, 2020 edition of the Marietta Times is the first
> attempt we have seen to explain to the people in this area about this
> proposed facility.
>      We first learned of the application to the U. S. Army Corps of
> Engineers for this facility from a watchdog group. No public notice was
> ever published in the Marietta Times, the major newspaper in this area. The
> comment period for public reaction to the application (Project #
> LRH-2020-293-OHR) ended May 6, a period when everyone's attention was
> focused on the coronavirus pandemic. These actions by the USACE demonstrate
> serious insensitivity to the people in this area who will have to live with
> the severe risks to public health and to the environment associated with
> this facility.
>      In his comments to the Times reporter, Mr. Chadsey mentions three
> types of oil field fluids that will come to Marietta. But what is mentioned
> in the application to the USACE by Deep Rock Disposal Solutions is
> “traditional well waste.” Which type of waste among the three types he
> mentioned is this? The most common of these wastes is brine or salt water,
> which Mr. Chadsey describes as 99% water, but the remaining one per cent is
> composed of chemicals many of them toxic, such as benzene, arsenic, lead,
> cadmium, chlorine, mercury, formaldehyde. Given that the average fracking
> well uses 1 million gallons of water we are not talking about teaspoon
> amounts of these chemicals. Mr Chadsey further asserts that  the brine to
> be offloaded is not radioactive. Can he be  certain of this in light of a
> Pennsylvania study which showed high levels of Radium 226 and 228 in brine
> waste? Furthermore, brine itself  can be harmful to municipal water systems
> and to wildlife.
>      Before this application is approved by the USACE, residents of the
> Marietta need to know the answers to several questions: What exactly is
> contained in the “traditional well waste” to be offloaded? What safety
> precautions are being built into this facility for offloading from river to
> land? What happens if the barge capacity for this waste exceeds the shore
> tank capacity? What safety practices will be followed in the loading of the
> shore tanks into tanker trucks (presumably numbering up to 250 trucks each
> of 5,000-gallon capacity)? What are the destinations of the tanker trucks
> and what routes will they follow? What is the estimated increase in wear
> and tear on state, county, township roads and city streets caused by these
> trucks?
>        The answers to these questions should be posed by the USACE and are
> best provided by Deep Rock Disposal Solutions. In the May 27 Times article
> it was stated, “Wes Mossor, General Manger of Deep Rock Solutions LLC, was
> unable to speak on the record about the permit or offloading facility.”
> There is no good reason that Mr. Mossor or any other official from Deep
> Rock should be unable to comment. The residents of the Marietta area need
> to know answers to these questions. This proposed project is best presented
> to the Marietta area in the form of a public meeting when representatives
> from the USACE and from Deep Rock can be questioned —that is, when public
> meetings can be done safely. Until such time as a public meeting can take
> place and these questions addressed, this project should not be approved.
>      Several of us who are concerned about this issue have expressed our
> views to Ohio U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman.
>      Many people in the Marietta area would like to support the shale gas
> industry because of its importance to the economy., but it is difficult to
> do that when they are not transparent about their projects.
> George Banziger
>
> ---- roger kalter via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote:
> > George, I cant access your letter to the Times. Can please you resend
> it. Roger
> >
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> >
> >
> > On Friday, May 29, 2020, 10:15 AM, gbanz42--- via Green <green at fuusm.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Green Sanctuary Colleagues:
> >
> >   Attached is a draft of my letter to the Marietta Times in response to
> the May 27 Times article where Mr Chadsey of the Ohio Oil & Gas Association
> is quoted. I would like to submit this to the Times Sunday evening (May
> 311).
> >
> >     In my cover note to the Times I would like to mention that the Times
> itself should take an editorial position on this issue and call out the
> Deep Rock and USACE for their lack of transparency as they have called out
> City Council and the County Commissioners for their lack of transparency on
> other issues.
> >
> >
> > --
> > George Banziger
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> > Marietta, OH 45750-1111
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> George Banziger
> 202 Lawton Road
> Marietta, OH 45750-1111
> 740-434-5685
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