MORE OHIOANS WANT SOME SAY IN SITING DRILLING WASTE INJECTION WELLS

The Allegheny Front: MORE OHIOANS WANT SOME SAY IN SITING DRILLING WASTE INJECTION WELLS. Each well drilled using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and gas production creates tens of millions of gallons of wastewater, called produced water or brine. In Ohio, much of that wastewater is disposed of in underground injection wells, including waste from Pennsylvania and West Virginia. As the number of injection wells grows in Ohio, local communities want some control over where these wells are located.

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