Hey ABC! Liar liar liar and a liar, you lie! I’m putting my fingers in my ears! Fracking is 100% safe, ALWAYS. No one’s health will get be marred by this process. Move along, ABC.
Oh yea, and Ingraffea, shut up about Ingraffea. And Colborn too, and all those endocrine disruptors and carginogens. We can’t have people knowing about that stuff. You should be thankful to risk your health and peaceful enjoyment of your home because a few might get a temporary job. A few from Texas that is.
The state has taken local control away from communities, hence why all our local officials always say "sorry our hands are tied." The charter amendment seeks to bring control back to the local community. It will establish the community's right to decide what happens in the city.
It is the inalienable right of the people to protect their environment, health, safety, welfare and quality of life.
Yellow Springs Ohio banned fracking within their community and their community has approximately 3,000 people, so what evidence do you have UticaShale, that rural towns want their backyards fracked and their towns industrialized with gas infrastructure?
Since fracking is just moving into Ohio, Youngstown has taken the lead in being one of the first towns to try to enact ban (as did Broadview Heights, Yellow Springs, and Mansfield's injection well ban), so I think it is a little premature to say the rural areas are begging to have massive frack pads in their backyards.
As time goes on, we can only expected to see MORE bans being pursued as people start to object to having their neighborhoods converted to industrialized gas fields.
oh13voter stated "The information from blood and urine tests can lie, if you distort the information."
That brings to mind how the PA DEP (PA's version of our ODNR) were found to have developed a specialized computer-code system to manipulate the test results for residents whose water was tested by the DEP over concerns of adverse effects from gas drilling operations.
According to the transcripts, which have been filed as exhibits in a related lawsuit in Washington County Court of Common Pleas (Haney et al. v. Range Resources et al., Case No. 2012-3534), the DEP lab would conduct water tests using an EPA-approved standard, but the DEP employee who requested the testing would use a specially designed ‘Suite Code’that limits the information coming back from the DEP lab to the DEP field office, and ultimately to the property owner.
So homeowners who complained their water had turned bad, were not informed of the chemicals in their water.
And we should invite this industry into Ohio with open arms?!
Vote YES to protect our loved ones and our grandchildren and future generations.
Again, the EPA has no authority to regulate injection of fracking chemicals into the ground as underground injection control (UIC) was specifically exempted under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
oh13voter: You address the property rights of those that you say are denied the right to be fracked, but what about the rights of those property owners that do not want to be fracked?
They have no say, as they are forcefully integrated into drilling units under blatantly un-American laws.
It is eminent domain for private corporations.
And don't give the tired out excuse they get royalities, if they cared about money in the first place, they'd have leased.
@Oh13voter, As an industry apologist it's funny you'd assert that some people believe that the industry has exemptions from provisions of major federal environmental laws permitting criminal discharge into surface waters (Lupo dumping) or most recently the Lowellville dumping incident.
I mean come on, really? Although, since the industry appears to treat the waterways and any random hole in the ground as their toxic frack waste disposal facilities, it's understandable why you'd assert some people think the industry is exempt.
HOWEVER, any industry that injects chemicals into the ground has to have approval from the EPA through the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and underground injection control (UIC). Congress provided the exclusion for hydraulic fracking to UIC and the SDWA under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Aka the Haliburton Loophole).
Disposal of flowback into surface waters of the United States is regulated by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. The Clean Water Act authorizes the NPDES program.
So essentially through NPDES the EPA retains its power and authority to regulate flowback under the SDWA into SURFACE waters (such as the dumping Lupo did), however, the EPA has no authority to regulate injection of fracking chemicals into the ground as underground injection control (UIC) was specifically exempted under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Here is the link from the EPA: http://water.epa.gov/type/groundwater...
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
Carcinogens*
May 2, 2013 at 11:41 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
Let's save Oh13 the time:
Hey ABC! Liar liar liar and a liar, you lie! I’m putting my fingers in my ears! Fracking is 100% safe, ALWAYS. No one’s health will get be marred by this process. Move along, ABC.
Oh yea, and Ingraffea, shut up about Ingraffea. And Colborn too, and all those endocrine disruptors and carginogens. We can’t have people knowing about that stuff. You should be thankful to risk your health and peaceful enjoyment of your home because a few might get a temporary job. A few from Texas that is.
May 2, 2013 at 11:30 p.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
The state has taken local control away from communities, hence why all our local officials always say "sorry our hands are tied." The charter amendment seeks to bring control back to the local community. It will establish the community's right to decide what happens in the city.
It is the inalienable right of the people to protect their environment, health, safety, welfare and quality of life.
May 2, 2013 at 10:02 p.m. permalink suggest removal
We leased 22 acres on the east side of Jacobs Road, just south of McGuffey Road in Youngstown. Is
Yellow Springs Ohio banned fracking within their community and their community has approximately 3,000 people, so what evidence do you have UticaShale, that rural towns want their backyards fracked and their towns industrialized with gas infrastructure?
Since fracking is just moving into Ohio, Youngstown has taken the lead in being one of the first towns to try to enact ban (as did Broadview Heights, Yellow Springs, and Mansfield's injection well ban), so I think it is a little premature to say the rural areas are begging to have massive frack pads in their backyards.
As time goes on, we can only expected to see MORE bans being pursued as people start to object to having their neighborhoods converted to industrialized gas fields.
May 2, 2013 at 10:54 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
The information I provided was proof of manipulated lab reports of drinking water of human beings.
April 30, 2013 at 11:19 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
oh13voter stated "The information from blood and urine tests can lie, if you distort the information."
That brings to mind how the PA DEP (PA's version of our ODNR) were found to have developed a specialized computer-code system to manipulate the test results for residents whose water was tested by the DEP over concerns of adverse effects from gas drilling operations.
According to the transcripts, which have been filed as exhibits in a related lawsuit in Washington County Court of Common Pleas (Haney et al. v. Range Resources et al., Case No. 2012-3534), the DEP lab would conduct water tests using an EPA-approved standard, but the DEP employee who requested the testing would use a specially designed ‘Suite Code’that limits the information coming back from the DEP lab to the DEP field office, and ultimately to the property owner.
So homeowners who complained their water had turned bad, were not informed of the chemicals in their water.
And we should invite this industry into Ohio with open arms?!
Vote YES to protect our loved ones and our grandchildren and future generations.
April 30, 2013 at 9:08 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
Again, the EPA has no authority to regulate injection of fracking chemicals into the ground as underground injection control (UIC) was specifically exempted under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
April 26, 2013 at 9:34 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
oh13voter:
You address the property rights of those that you say are denied the right to be fracked, but what about the rights of those property owners that do not want to be fracked?
They have no say, as they are forcefully integrated into drilling units under blatantly un-American laws.
It is eminent domain for private corporations.
And don't give the tired out excuse they get royalities, if they cared about money in the first place, they'd have leased.
April 26, 2013 at 9:32 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Supporters of anti-fracking amendment unveil 2 billboards
@Oh13voter, As an industry apologist it's funny you'd assert that some people believe that the industry has exemptions from provisions of major federal environmental laws permitting criminal discharge into surface waters (Lupo dumping) or most recently the Lowellville dumping incident.
I mean come on, really? Although, since the industry appears to treat the waterways and any random hole in the ground as their toxic frack waste disposal facilities, it's understandable why you'd assert some people think the industry is exempt.
HOWEVER, any industry that injects chemicals into the ground has to have approval from the EPA through the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and underground injection control (UIC). Congress provided the exclusion for hydraulic fracking to UIC and the SDWA under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Aka the Haliburton Loophole).
Disposal of flowback into surface waters of the United States is regulated by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. The Clean Water Act authorizes the NPDES program.
So essentially through NPDES the EPA retains its power and authority to regulate flowback under the SDWA into SURFACE waters (such as the dumping Lupo did), however, the EPA has no authority to regulate injection of fracking chemicals into the ground as underground injection control (UIC) was specifically exempted under the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Here is the link from the EPA: http://water.epa.gov/type/groundwater...
April 26, 2013 at 8:32 a.m. permalink suggest removal
Ohio at forefront of training for oil & gas emergencies
Ahh regulations.
We have another illegal dumping incident in Lowellville not very far removed from the one million gallon dump into the Mahoning River.
We sure toughened up those regulations since that last incident, that mind you, were already the toughest.
But don't worry, the regulations are going to be even tougher yet since this incident!
Then after the next dump, blowout, spill, leak, etc, they will be super extra tough.
April 25, 2013 at 1:50 p.m. permalink suggest removal