Breaking: Ohio Residents Shut Down Fracking Waste Storage Facility

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2. Dispatch - Fracking protest at Ohio River storage site

The Columbus Dispatch - February 19, 2013 12:25 PM

Protesters shut down a business this morning that wants to use Ohio River barges to take "fracking" wastes from Pennsylvania.

Members of a group called Appalachia Resist descended on GreenHunter Water's storage facility and terminal in New Matamoras this morning. The Grapevine, Texas-based company is taking truckload deliveries of the liquid wastes, which bubble out of shale wells along with oil and gas, while it awaits a Coast Guard decision that could allow it to uses barges.

The wastes, a mixture of fracking chemicals, naturally occuring metals, radium and high concentrations of salt are sent to Ohio disposal wells where they are injected underground. The fracking process pumps millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals underground to shatter shale and release trapped oil and gas.

A press release from the group claimed more than 100 protesters. It said the group is concerned that a barge collision or mishap would release toxic wastes into the Ohio River...
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/science-environment/2013/02/fracking-protest.html