waste – Columbus Community Bill of Rights https://columbusbillofrights.org Protect Columbus water, soil, and air from oil and gas waste Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:05:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/columbusbillofrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-NewBlackLogoNoBG-01-e1629507437846.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 waste – Columbus Community Bill of Rights https://columbusbillofrights.org 32 32 163692153 Rolling Stone: ‘America’s Radioactive Secret’ https://columbusbillofrights.org/rolling-stone-americas-radioactive-secret/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 00:03:47 +0000 https://columbusbillofrights.org/?p=1080

Alot of people in Ohio have been waiting for this story to become public!   Oil and gas brines that are waste products of wells are hundreds of times more radioactive than has been previously known to the public. It is time to ban the use of these materials anywhere on the surface environment.

  Click HERE to read the full story in Rolling Stone Magazine.

Featured image:  Brine trucks at injection well in Cambridge, Ohio.
George Etheridge for Rolling Stone.

]]> 1080 Ohio Environmental Council PRESS RELEASE https://columbusbillofrights.org/ohio-environmental-council-press-release/ Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:50:44 +0000 https://columbusbillofrights.org/?p=885

Statement on the Use of Brine to Treat Roadways

Emily Bacha, Communications Director, November 2, 2019

The following statement can be attributed in full or in part to Heather Taylor-Miesle, Executive Director of the Ohio Environmental Council:

At the Ohio Environmental Council, we pride ourselves on achieving environmental protection through forward-thinking, science-based, pragmatic solutions. We conduct our advocacy on principles of transparency, accuracy, and honesty. However, our comment in the October 23rd article regarding the use of oil and gas wastewater (“brine”) to treat roadways was not accurate. We made a mistake and we apologize.

After the article ran, we became aware of powerful new scientific evidence uncovered by advocates who are leading on this issue. We have now had the chance to examine it and the evidence is deeply troubling. Testing by the State of Ohio shows that brine is, as a general matter, highly radioactive. Of 151 samples taken from 150 different sources of Ohio brine, 148 samples exceeded environmental discharge limits, and all 151 exceeded federal safe drinking water standards. In short, this evidence shows that oil and gas wastewater is a danger to the public and the environment and it should not be spread on Ohio’s roadways.

Ohio is lucky to have a group of passionate advocates leading on this issue who are bringing to light the true threats of allowing unchecked brine wastewater to be spread on roads.

Statement on the Use of Brine to Treat Roadways

]]> 885 The Dangers of Fracking Waste: Is There Any Safe Way to Dispose of It? https://columbusbillofrights.org/the-dangers-of-fracking-waste-is-there-any-safe-way-to-dispose-of-it/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:33:55 +0000 http://localhost/wp_ccbor/?p=318 December 8, 2017 | By: Wendell G. Bradley
Excerpt from ‘Chemical & Engineering News’
Landfills and land spreads apparently have been relying on the measurements of Operators, who, in turn, justify their releases per a COGCC 2014 study (4). That study, however, used a discreditedmeasuring/testing protocol (5). As a result, Operators are typically under measuring by at least factors of 100.
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]]> 318 Radium Watersheds a Risk https://columbusbillofrights.org/radium-watersheds-a-risk/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 21:23:19 +0000 https://columbusbillofrights.org/?p=489 Click HERE to read this article on FracTracker.org that highlights the Columbus public watershed’s exposure to radioactive oil & gas wastes.

Local oil/gas brine tanker disposing of frack waste at an injection well in Morrow County, OH.
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