Marietta, OH Officials Ask ODNR to Deny Permit for Injection Well

The war of words continues. Two weeks ago, a county Republican meeting in Washington County, Ohio, where the City of Marietta is located, turned into a shouting match over a potential fifth shale wastewater injection well proposed by DeepRock Disposal Solutions (see OH Republican Officials Squabble in Public Over Injection Wells). The open hostility continues with Marietta officials, including the city’s mayor, law director, water superintendent, and a majority of city council members, asking the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Oil and Gas Chief Eric Vendel to deny a permit application from DeepRock for the Stephan #1 injection well.

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