[Green] Proposed Fracking Offload Facility

Sun May 31 13:38:32 CDT 2020

Excellent letter George!  Thank you!

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:55 AM Joe Baker via Green <green at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> 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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