Fracking under the Ohio River (22 miles of it)

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Thirsty wells: Fracking consumes billions of gallons of water - News - The CantonRep - Canton, OH

• Thirsty wells: Fracking consumes billions of gallons of water
• Drillers in Ohio have used more than 4 billion gallons of water to frack horizontal shale wells since 2011. That's a lot of water. Enough to fill one two-liter soda bottle for every person on the planet; or in terms that motorists in shale country can relate to, 800,000 tanker-loads of water.
  

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FEDERAL REPORT SINGLES OUT OHIO FOR FLAWED FRACKING WASTE DISPOSAL PROGRAM

Only Ohio allows fracking waste disposal without
advance disclosure of chemical contaminants

COLUMBUS, OHIO: "The federal Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a new report (U.S. GAO - Drinking Water: Characterization of Injected Fluids Associated with Oil and Gas Production) disclosing that Ohio alone of eight states studied allows contaminated waste fluids from oil and gas wells to be disposed without advance disclosure of the contaminants it contains.

The report had been requested by members of U.S. Senate and House environment committees to disclose the level of disclosure on the nature and toxicity of such wastes since “fracking” of deep shale rock layers to unlock oil and natural gas deposits has become common.

The report concluded that of the eight states studied (California, Colorado, Kentucky, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas), each state - with the sole exception of Ohio - required waste disposal companies to provide information on the characteristics of the waste to be disposed before they could receive a permit to “inject” the waste.

...R.C. 1509.10(I), was based on an industry-drafted bill distributed by the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (“ALEC”), a group with close ties to the Koch Brothers and numerous Ohio legislators. “Chemical secrecy has been the oil and gas industry’s goal from the beginning and they’ve achieved more secrecy in Ohio than any other state,” Groff added."

Ohio is cited in GAO report for fracking waste disposal - Drilling - Ohio

(Koch Bros investment in purchasing our state govt has definitely paid off. This must be the reason they want to barge fracking waste all the way from TX on the Ohio River, it's cheaper & we don't ask Qs, so they don't have to lie.)

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Petition~

https://www.change.org/p/randy-c-huf...the-ohio-river

The Wheeling Water Warriors and multiple other concerned groups call on you to stop plans to drill under the Ohio River.

The Ohio River provides drinking water to over 3 million people, and 10% of the population of the United States lives in the Ohio River Valley. The Ohio River is 981 miles long, and runs through six states: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, and is the largest source of water for the Mississippi River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. This intracoastal waterway needs to be kept safe from hydraulic fracturing, which has caused the contamination of numerous water sources in our region, and which is also implicated in increased seismic activity and earthquakes.