[Green] Oil & Gas Land Management Commission

[George Banziger]

Green Sanctuary Committee:

     Below is the message I sent to the Oil & Gas Land Management
Commission about three "nominations" for fracking sites near Salt Fork
State Park.  If you send a similar message just mix up the items I listed.
Also put in the subject line:

               23-DNR-0005,0006,0007

Commission Clerk:

    I respectfully wish to express my opposition to the nominations for the
above-referenced parcels in the vicinity of Salt Fork State Park. I have
been fishing, hiking, picnicking, boating and other activities at this
State Park, which I regard as the "gem" of our state park system. I oppose
the nominations submitted for hydraulic fracturing for the following
reasons:

           -methane emissions which will contribute to climate change

          -building of access roads and their environmental impact in the
vicinity of the park

           -water pollution

           -water withdrawal (each fracking well will have to take about a
1 million gallons of water/year). These will be drawn from the Muskingum
Watershed, which cannot tolerate this loss.

            -flaring of natural gas

            -huge amounts of brine waste which will probably come to
Washington County (my home county), which already leads the state in volume
of brine waste injected.

     I would urge the Commission to seek the advice  of scientific experts
before approving these nominations (I don't see any science experts in the
current Commission membership).

George & Gwen Banziger; 740-434-5685; 740-434-3354 (mobile)
George & Gwen Banziger; 740-434-5685; 740-434-3354 (mobile)
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