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Tod
12-20-2011, 01:54 AM
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20111219/NEWS01/112190323/Fracking-opponents-organize


MANSFIELD -- Local opponents of a proposed Mansfield facility to accept fracking waste from Pennsylvania -- along with people concerned about hydraulic fracturing in general -- have stepped up efforts to organize.

Preferred Fluids Management, a Texas based company, plans to drill two 5,000-foot-deep injection wells on five acres southwest of Knight Parkway on Mansfield's north side. The company received permit approval in April from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
But fracking itself may become a reality in parts of Richland County. Dozens of oil and gas leases have been filed in the Richland County recorder's office, allowing other companies -- ones involved in fossil fuel exploration -- the legal right to drill wells that would use fracking technology on private land around Richland County, recorder Sarah Davis said. While some leases involve just one landowner, some include as many as 80 landowners' names.
Area residents concerned about either industry -- fracking or the underground storage of its waste -- have begun networking, chiefly through Occupy Mansfield.

A Son of Liberty
12-20-2011, 04:58 AM
Property. Rights.

Tod
12-20-2011, 08:07 PM
Assume for a minute that the following happens:

the property owners are free to decide for themselves that they want to lease their property for these injection wells. They get paid X dollars. The company that leases does the injecting and twenty years from now is no longer in business, the property owner has died, and toxic chemicals start showing up all over the area from contaminated groundwater.

Injured neighbors are up a creek without a paddle. No one to sue.

Would it have been better for government to disallow the injection wells in the first place? (the current thing happening is very different: the ODNR is allowing it without any say-so from the neighbors who would be affected should groundwater contamination occur, but that is a different scenario)