"City
officials and citizens of Mansfield Ohio continue to move forward in
protecting communities against the inundation of hydraulic fracturing
waste disposal. In a unanimous vote, Mansfield City Council passed
resolution 13-343 which strongly supports the passage of Ohio House Bill
148. HB 148 proposes prohibiting the disposal of brine by deep well
injection and land application in the state of Ohio. Ohio is targeted as
a toxic dumping ground by the oil and gas industry and Ohio residents
are seeing an increasing amount of waste flowing into their communities.
As local municipalities fight to prevent the influx of toxic waste, the
Ohio Department of Natural Resources continues to permit Class II
injection wells and welcome millions of gallons of hazardous waste from
inside and outside the state. In 2012 almost six hundred million gallons
of toxic fracking waste was dumped on Ohio communities via injection
and almost sixty percent of that came from out of state."
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