MEDINA COUNTY PETITION - “NOT TO PURCHASE OIL AND GAS DRILLING WASTE”
Ohio may allow radioactive drilling waste to be used as a road deicer.
We, the undersigned, request that drilling waste in any form not be purchased or used for any purpose in our community.
The Ohio Legislature last year considered allowing fossil fuel companies to sell drilling biproducts to be spread on roadways as a deicer (H.B. 393 and S.B. 165). They are likely to do so again this year.
Drilling waste is known to be radioactive and to contain unknown chemicals.
Thousands of chemicals may be used during the drilling process and the a names of those chemicals are considered “trade secrets”. Research suggests that the chemicals in the waste may interact and make it difficult to treat waste for safe reuse(1).
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has found that a waste product (called “AquaSalina”) is radioactive(2). The AquaSalina product is currently for sale in home improvement stores. A recent Duke University study in Pennsylvania found that “disposal of treated conventional (oil and gas waste) is the source of high (radium concentrations) in stream sediments,” which caused radioactivity levels in the streams to spike(3).
Since radioactivity cannot be removed and the chemicals are unknown, the waste cannot be made safe for our roads, our vehicles, our pets, our children, or us.
Ohio may allow radioactive drilling waste to be used as a road deicer.
We, the undersigned, request that drilling waste in any form not be purchased or used for any purpose in our community.
The Ohio Legislature last year considered allowing fossil fuel companies to sell drilling biproducts to be spread on roadways as a deicer (H.B. 393 and S.B. 165). They are likely to do so again this year.
Drilling waste is known to be radioactive and to contain unknown chemicals.
Thousands of chemicals may be used during the drilling process and the a names of those chemicals are considered “trade secrets”. Research suggests that the chemicals in the waste may interact and make it difficult to treat waste for safe reuse(1).
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has found that a waste product (called “AquaSalina”) is radioactive(2). The AquaSalina product is currently for sale in home improvement stores. A recent Duke University study in Pennsylvania found that “disposal of treated conventional (oil and gas waste) is the source of high (radium concentrations) in stream sediments,” which caused radioactivity levels in the streams to spike(3).
Since radioactivity cannot be removed and the chemicals are unknown, the waste cannot be made safe for our roads, our vehicles, our pets, our children, or us.
- http://documents.latimes.com/study-hydraulic-fracking/
- Ohio Department of Natural Resources July 26, 2017 Internal Memo concerning AquaSalina.
- https://stateimpact.npr.org/…/study-conventional-drilling-…/