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Big Lagoons Could Hold Ohio Fracking Waste
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: Spencer Hunt on October 11th, 2013
Columbus Dispatch: Fracking wastewater lagoons the size of football fields could dot eastern Ohio as state officials draft rules for the storage sites. Oil and gas drillers use the lagoons to store millions of gallons of water contaminated with fracking chemicals, toxic metals and radium that come up from shale wells. Companies clean the water of pollutants so it can be recycled to frack new wells. “We are putting in a process to outline their standards of construction and their length of use,” said Mark Bruce, spokesman...
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Shale Drillers Must Report Chemicals in Ohio
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: Spencer Hunt on October 1st, 2013
Columbus Dispatch: Oil and gas companies are being told for the first time to give county officials and local fire departments information about the toxic chemicals drillers use to fracture shale. Ohio officials sent a memo this month notifying companies that a federal right-to-know law trumps a 2001 state law that allowed them to send the information exclusively to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The memo “puts oil and gas companies on notice that they will have to comply with the federal requirements,”...
Extremes in weather more likely
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: Spencer Hunt on April 18th, 2013
Columbus Dispatch: Weather experts and climatologists say people nationwide should not be surprised by more-extreme weather and warmer weather.
In central Ohio, climate-change models show that strong spring storms and hotter, dry summers will be the norm, said Jeff Rogers, state climatologist and a professor of geography and atmospheric sciences at Ohio State University.
“With climate change, there is going to be losers, and there is going to be winners,” Rogers said. “Currently, Ohio is a winner in that we’re...