[Green] Injection Wells

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Thanks, Vic.  Let me know if you need any more information.

Also please let me know when you submit the LTE.


---- Vic Elam via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> Great job Maggie.
> George, I am willing to do the next LTE.
> Vic
> When the Earth, its products, its creatures become his concern, man is
> caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more meaningful. Only
> when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude does he walk and
> live with humility and reverence.   - William O. Douglas
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 11:07 AM gbanz42--- via Green <green at fuusm.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Green Sanctuary Committee:
> >
> >     Maggie Meyer's most excellent LTE on injection wells was published in
> > today's edition of the Marietta Times (attached). Thank you, Maggie!
> >
> >      I suggest we keep up a drum beat of information about this
> > little-known and highly dangerous practice of injecting brine waste in
> > Washington County. The companies doing this practice are not transparent,
> > have been given a virtual blank check by ODNR, and are exposing our county
> > residents to environmental and health hazards.
> >
> >      My specific suggestion is that someone else on Green Sanctuary (I am
> > at risk of over-exposure since I just had an LTE in the MTimes) point out
> > in an LTE that the brine waste business contributes almost nothing to the
> > economic development and job growth in our region. Their profits go outside
> > the region (Deep Rock is owned by a Pennsylvania company). The little that
> > they provide in the way of jobs in the form of truckers who transport brine
> > waste to injection wells will be eliminated when they start transporting by
> > barge. As you may recall the USACE approved Deep Rock's request for a
> > permit for a barge off-load facility just outside Marietta.
> >
> >      In addition to the point about the economy and jobs above, the letter
> > writer can use  items from the talking points that I have also attached.
> >
> >      Please let me know who is willing to submit the next LTE on this
> > topic.
> > --
> > George Banziger
> > 202 Lawton Road
> > Marietta, OH 45750-1111
> > 740-434-5685
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George Banziger
202 Lawton Road
Marietta, OH 45750-1111
740-434-5685
cell: 740-434-3354