[Green] Injection Wells

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Thanks, Maggie

I wanted to give a chance for others to submit their own letters and spread out the participation I think after a few weeks, it might be good for you to submit another letter--if you're willing. 


---- Maggie & Steve Meyer via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> George,
> Thank you! I am so glad to get the letter published. Originally, you wanted
> me to write letters for four months. But this email suggests you are
> encouraging others, which I think is a better idea. Someone else would be
> more likely to get published. Let me know when you want me to write another
> letter.
> Maggie
> 
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 4:47 PM 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.
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