[Green] Interesting reading about injection wells

[Rebecca Phillips]

And this just showed up in my news feed.
Fracking linked to surface water quality for first time in new study (msn.com)<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fracking-linked-to-surface-water-quality-for-first-time-in-new-study/ar-AANvF24?ocidctx=hvs%3A1%2Cfdwt%3A34%2Chb%3Afalse%2Ctb%3Afalse%2Cpb%3Afalse%2Ccvc%3A5&ocid=winp1taskbar>
[https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB19DYwt.img?h=315&w=600&m=6&q=60&o=t&l=f&f=jpg]<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fracking-linked-to-surface-water-quality-for-first-time-in-new-study/ar-AANvF24?ocidctx=hvs%3A1%2Cfdwt%3A34%2Chb%3Afalse%2Ctb%3Afalse%2Cpb%3Afalse%2Ccvc%3A5&ocid=winp1taskbar>
Fracking linked to surface water quality for first time in new study<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fracking-linked-to-surface-water-quality-for-first-time-in-new-study/ar-AANvF24?ocidctx=hvs%3A1%2Cfdwt%3A34%2Chb%3Afalse%2Ctb%3Afalse%2Cpb%3Afalse%2Ccvc%3A5&ocid=winp1taskbar>
The effects of fracking on nearby water sources may be worse than previously thought, according to a new study that found hydraulic fracturing can alter the composition of surface water and not just groundwater.The study, published Thursday in Science, is the first to link fracking to small increases in salt concentrations in surface water, particularly during the early stages of production. While the highest salt levels were well below what...
www.msn.com


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Thanks, Dawn, for all these articles. The Rolling Stone piece is pretty comprehensive. It's good to know that we in SE Ohio are somewhat in the national limelight--perhaps for the wrong reasons.

      Just this morning I learned about a meeting called by Bob Lane, who owns natural gas production wells. He is very  upset about the seepage from injection wells into production wells. State Representative, Jay Edwards, will be at this meeting, which is September 14 at 6 p.m. at the Farmers & Daughters & Son LLC location (600 Goose Run Road - just past Broughton's Dairy).


---- Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote:
> George and other Greens,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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>
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> 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/>
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> 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:
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>  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.
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> FYI.
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> —dawn
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