[Green] Oil & Gas Land Management Commission

[Dawn Hewitt]

Done!  Thanks, George!  --dawn

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:25 PM George Banziger via Green <green at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> 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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