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April
10, 2014
A Big Fracking
Deal
Letter to the Editor
Tom and Jane Staley
Dear Editor:
"TOXIC TRUTH," a Town Hall Meeting, presented by the Western Ohio
Fracking Awareness Coalition (WOFAC) comes to Memorial Hall at 215 West
Fourth Street in Greenville Tuesday, April 15 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
And it's still a big fracking deal.
Since our previous Town Hall event last October, the Ohio Department of
Natural Resources (ODNR)- the state agency that is supposed to control
hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas and its related waste - has
decided to cap several old gas wells near Osgood. Why? ODNR will not
comment. However, did you know that any oil/gas well in Ohio can be
turned into an injection well accepting millions of gallons of toxic
waste from the eastern production wells?
Did you know this waste contains quantities of undisclosed highly toxic
chemicals including benzene, xylene, cadmium, mercury, arsenic and
radioactive elements?
Discover more truths at the TOXIC TRUTH Town Hall event presented by
three respected speakers. Donner Carver, a nurse for thirty years,
comes from Morrow County, Ohio which has a multitude of fracking waste
water injection wells, some of them converted from old gas wells, where
residents are exposed to tanker truck traffic tearing up the fracking
brine encrusted roads and noxious fumes emanating from venting pressure
at the injection well sites.
Did you know that radioactivity in oil and gas wastewaters has been
found to exceed the U.S. EPA safe drinking limits by up to 3,600 times
the federal industrial discharge limits set by the Nuclear Regulatory
Agency more than 300 times?
Dr. Uri Gorby, a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy,
New York specializes in uranium science and emerging threats to
freshwater resources. He has a doctorate in microbiology and worked 15
years with the United States Department of Energy.
Did you know that many existing Class II injection wells are old
production wells that do not even meet the current inadequate state
standards for injection?
The third speaker, Joe Curry, a professional well driller registered in
Michigan, is a certified member of the National Groundwater Association
and the nationally accredited Water Systems Council.
TOXIC TRUTH is free and open to the public, everyone is welcome, and
all questions will be heard and answered.
Find out more information at www.WOFAC.org
Tom and Jane Staley
Arcanum, Ohio
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