Ohio Waterways ranked 10th highest in toxic chemicals in US. (Columbus: inspection, safe)

[unusualfire]

Originally Posted by 1watertiger

Was swimming in lake Erie today near bay village. The water was cool clear and looked clean.. The lake is getting better every year...

I hope you did't judge clear water for being clean.

[RiverLover11]

Now there's another Ohio waterway with some deadly chemicals in it, and there are reportedly up to a few miles of dead fish. A fracking well caught on fire last week & it spread to 20 trucks on the drill pad which exploded. Its speculated that when the firefighters put out the fire, the run-off ran into Possum Creek.

20-25 families were evacuated. Its too bad they couldn't evacuate the fish too.

"“It sounds like it was not just smoke and not just fire, but a major fish kill,” he said. “Both the company and state agencies owe the public a full public accounting of what went wrong and how they are going to prevent future occurrences.”"

Fish kill in eastern Ohio might be linked to fire at fracking well | The Columbus Dispatch

[ohioaninsc]

Hence why they need to ban fracking until they can A)Guarentee no accidents liket this...B)Stop causing earth quakes in non earthquake zones from the shooting chemicals deep into the ground.

This is a polluters dream state.

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by ohioaninsc

Hence why they need to ban fracking until they can A)Guarentee no accidents liket this...B)Stop causing earth quakes in non earthquake zones from the shooting chemicals deep into the ground.

This is a polluters dream state.

That seems unrealistic. Oil drilling hasn't been banned for things like the Deepwater disaster. Alternative energies are the best bet, but there's a certain party that can't stand anything but fossil fuels.

[ohazco]

Spent many summers in the waters of the Muddy Maumee near Liberty Center... Guess I'm good as dead

[RiverLover11]

More info on that fracking fire fish kill, and the unknown fracking chemicals in 4 of the trucks which exploded~

Are fracking chemicals from Monroe County fire and spill headed toward the Ohio River?

We need to know what's getting into our water supply. I know in NC before they've even started fracking, Halliburton lobbyists wrote the bill that would ban the disclosure of chemicals used in fracking. (Then they also made it a felony to do so, when the real felony in a civilized society should be risking lives for profit, but I digress.)

Is that what happened here in Ohio? How did it become law that the toxic chemicals could be shielded under the guise of "trade secrets" rather than allowing us to know exactly how worried we should be in accidents like this. Or the fact that ground soil gets contaminated, stays contaminated and spreads. But we don't know how exactly bad that is because we are kept in the dark for sake of oil profits...

[ohioaninsc]

Originally Posted by jbcmh81

That seems unrealistic. Oil drilling hasn't been banned for things like the Deepwater disaster. Alternative energies are the best bet, but there's a certain party that can't stand anything but fossil fuels.

I was living on the Emerald Coast of Florida when the Deepwater Horizon spill happened...while Panama City Beach remained clean (Bay County guarded its beaches w/ floating booms that helped)...if you drover 60 miles west to Navarre Beach and another 20 miles to Pensacola Beach...they were covered in oil...I helped in the cleanup...it was so disgusting...and so sad to watch...and to this day I can't believe Obama didn't issue an executive order to cease all deepwater drilling because of the dangers that showed.

[RiverLover11]

Originally Posted by ohioaninsc

I was living on the Emerald Coast of Florida when the Deepwater Horizon spill happened...they were covered in oil...I helped in the cleanup..

Thank you! I can't even imagine how difficult that was.

[ohioaninsc]

Originally Posted by RiverLover11

Thank you! I can't even imagine how difficult that was.

They made us wear these protective suits....they were hot, and stuck to your body due to the sweat in the hot humid Florida sun.
One of the guys I was with and I tried to rescue a badly struggling dolphin that was oil covered...we held it and poured water from our bottles to try and get some of the oil off it while Fish & Wildlife officers were dispatched...you could see the pain in its eyes...when the officers got there, they took him to a marine park to try and clean him off and get him better, but he died.

[jbcmh81]

Originally Posted by ohioaninsc

I was living on the Emerald Coast of Florida when the Deepwater Horizon spill happened...while Panama City Beach remained clean (Bay County guarded its beaches w/ floating booms that helped)...if you drover 60 miles west to Navarre Beach and another 20 miles to Pensacola Beach...they were covered in oil...I helped in the cleanup...it was so disgusting...and so sad to watch...and to this day I can't believe Obama didn't issue an executive order to cease all deepwater drilling because of the dangers that showed.

No president would have. It's a huge business that employs many thousands of people. Not to mention that the US is still largely dependent on oil (though most of the Gulf stuff gets shipped elsewhere). That's why I say investing in alternatives is the best long-term bet, but until the GOP gets on board with that, it won't matter.