County Commissioners want to hear from ODNR on Ginsburg injection well violations | Athens County's Future Action Network aka ACFAN and Athens County Fracking Action Network

Athens Messenger, Sept. 19, 2012, by STEVE ROBB Messenger staff journalist:

“Concerns raised about an injection well on Ladd Ridge Road have prompted the Athens County Commissioners to request a meeting with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources about the well.

On Tuesday, the commissioners voted to ask someone from ODNR to come to a future meeting of the commissioners to discuss the well.

The Ladd Ridge Road well was the site of an environmental protest in June in which Madeline Ffitch of Millfield blocked the entrance to the well by locking her arms in barrels filled with concrete. Ffitch has been charged in Athens County Common Pleas Court with inducing panic, a felony.

Injections wells are used to dispose of waste liquids from oil and gas wells.

The commissioners’ vote on Tuesday came after Athens City Councilwoman Michele Papai sent the commissioners a copy of an article that Appalachia Resist posted on its website about the Ginsberg well. Appalachia Resist was formed after Ffitch’s arrest and is supporting her cause. The article states that since 1986 the Ginsberg well has been repeatedly out of compliance with regulations, and asserts there was a lack of followup enforcement by ODNR and that the well was allowed to continue to operate despite violations.” Read more here.

Also see Athens Messenger coverage of Athens Countians’ new call for public hearing on Atha injection well permit.

AND Amy Goodman’s mention of Madeline’s action: Truthdig 9/19/12