Governor Halts Brine Injection Near Youngstown

Well, since normal person has had nearly a month to rebut my last post, I suspect his well water has done him in. To paraphrase K, "With the frackers in town, we'll check the morgues."

Here's a link to a Reuters story published 06Jan2012: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-usa-fracking-epa-idUSTRE8041YE20120106 . "Only a month after declaring water in Dimock (PA) safe to drink, the Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering action after residents supplied the EPA with hundreds of pages of data that link water pollution to fracking." This has been a problem there since 2008.

We need to fight the lies of these ignorant tree huggers that keep saying fracing contaminates drinking water! It never has, and never will. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT! Guess what you enviro-freaks!? The oil is already in the ground. Since you don't like oil, you should want it to be removed, right? Just do us all a favor and do your homework on two questions: 1) How deep is a water well and how is it drilled? 2) How deep is a shale well and how is it drilled? Now get a pencil and do subtraction (distance). The real world with real people in it are sick of your complaining about things you know nothing about and can't support with any facts at all. For pete's sake, if you had your way 100 years ago, we'd have no electricity, no gas lines coming into our homes, no ovens, no nothing. I mean, if we follow your way of thinking, why should we risk having a pipe coming into our house full of gas that can explode, or a metal panel with switches in it that can kill us if we touch it? Just go away already and do something meaningful with your life.

Funny how rare quakes were prior to injection wells. Hydraulic fluids don't compress so they're injected at extremely high pressures into the ground. If nothing else it increases the likelihood that SOMETHING will have to give since a static condition has been changed. OK, otoh, say it's a natural phenomenon. Can we really take the chance of poisoning our aquifers if the area is so seismically active? Not the aquifers? Then it'll eventually find its way into our rivers. In any case it's sheer stupidity to inject.

Good one Cord,,I suppose they're behind all the earthquakes too!!!!!! LMAO

M 4.0, Youngstown-Akron urban area, Ohio Saturday, December 31, 2011 03:05:01 PM at epicenter Depth: 5.00 km (3.11 mi). The depth precludes any possibility of the fracturing fluids having anything to do with the quake. This is total scare mongering propaganda from the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.

My question is, why not ban all of that type of drilling in your entire state if you are concerned about the safety of your constituants? Big step, halt drilling within a 5 mile radius?????? Halt all drilling until it is proven safe. I'm sure there is a bigger concern of losing campaign contributions from the Energy sector.

Governor Kasich is concerned with that well, but not concerned with all wells of residents who can have their water poisoned? The impact of fracking can and will poison wells and fields producing food for people and animals thus poisoning and impacting the lives of all. This in addition to the fact that fracking has been blamed on creating many earthquakes in Ohio and other states.