[Green] Interesting reading about injection wells

[Dawn Hewitt]

George and other Greens,

While preparing to send a message to the new local news source, Marietta Daily Patch,  I was attempting to provide some information on the Red Bird leak and the Mile Run spill. 

I happened upon this, published just a few days ago in the Marcellus Drilling News:  https://marcellusdrilling.com/2021/08/leaking-ohio-injection-well-not-contaminating-nearby-water-wells/ <https://marcellusdrilling.com/2021/08/leaking-ohio-injection-well-not-contaminating-nearby-water-wells/>  (about the Red Bird leak in Washington County). Note this quote: While the state agency has said it’s “unlikely that wastewater will migrate farther — including into underground sources of drinking water due to the composition of the rock layers and other factors,” an expert says it’s possible.

This is based on the July 2021 update on the Red Bird leak from ODNR: https://ohiodnr.gov/wps/portal/gov/odnr/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/about-odnr/oil-gas/oil-gas-resources/washington-county-investigation <https://ohiodnr.gov/wps/portal/gov/odnr/discover-and-learn/safety-conservation/about-odnr/oil-gas/oil-gas-resources/washington-county-investigation>

The Columbus Dispatch also picked up on that ODNR report, and published the story on August 10: https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2021/08/10/ohio-oil-and-gas-waste-migrated-but-drinking-water-safe-state-says/5498911001/ <https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2021/08/10/ohio-oil-and-gas-waste-migrated-but-drinking-water-safe-state-says/5498911001/>

And also, I don’t know how I missed this LOCAL story, published in Rolling Stone in January 2020, but HOLY CRAP. Maybe you read it back then, but maybe I was traveling at the time or something. Holy crap: 

 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/ <https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/>  Read it and weep. Not kidding. At the time, even the Marietta Times picked up the story that Rolling Stone had published a story that prominently features local injection wells. They still don’t cover local injection well leaks and spills, but when a big-name magazine covers local injection well leaks and spills, Marietta Times covers the coverage. Go figure. 

FYI.

—dawn

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