[Green] County Commissioners Meeting re Injection well Permit

[Roxanne Groff]

Excellent !!! Thank you all for doing this and for the GSC for pushing out
the action alert. I was told yesterday that IDNR was receiving comments.
I think the chief will hold the meeting and yes HE needs to be there.

I think we can pack a full house !

Together we are stronger!

Roxanne
On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM George Banziger <gbanziger497 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> GSC & Roxanne:
>
>    The meeting with the county commissioners went very well. I let Bob
> Lane and Bob Wilson do most of the talking (we were the only three there).
> They talked about all the money that they have lost on their damaged oil &
> gas wells from brine waste and generally about the risks of the excessive
> brine waste. They also talked about how the brine waste is migrating along
> geological faults and how fresh water is pushed up from high-pressure
> injection before brine waste. The Bobs described their lawsuit against the
> disposal well companies, which is in a Washington County Court (sent there
> by the Ohio Supreme Court).
>
>     I spoke briefly but since I had written remarks (attached), I gave
> those to the secretary.
>
>      The Marietta Times reporter was not there--I'll send my remarks to
> the editor.
>
>       The commissioners will ask the Division for a public meeting and
> insist that a decision maker like Eric Vendel be there. The latter is
> because we want to avoid a recurrence of the fiasco two and a half years
> ago at the ODNR public meeting at St. Ambrose Church in Little Hocking
> where there were two underlings from ODNR who were instructed not to answer
> any questions.
>
>      Bob Lane has already got the support of the three Warren Township
> Trustees to request a public meeting. One of them has already sent his
> request to the Division (he copied me).
>
> Roxanne,
>
>      Please spread the word to BEN members. The information they provided
> in their action plan was very helpful.
>
> George & Gwen Banziger; 740-434-5685; 740-434-3354 (mobile)
>
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