Cincinnati City Council Wants to Ban OH Wastewater Injection Wells

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Agitated for by the odious anti-drilling group Food & Water Watch and supported by elected Democrats, the Cincinnati City Council yesterday passed a resolution calling for a statewide ban on disposing shale wastewater and brine via injection wells. City Council disingenuously says the substances being disposed of (injected in the wells) is hazardous to human health, which is true enough in high concentrations, but they fail to also call for the banning of all such injection wells throughout the state. Other injection wells in Ohio dispose of far more toxic substances than fracking wastewater. Injection wells are made to hold such substances--yet, no resolution to ban these far more "dangerous" injection wells. How come Cincy? Sauce for the goose...

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