Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, over one hundred protestors from environmental groups around the country convened at the Green Hunter frack waste storage site on the Ohio River in New Matamoras, Ohio. Frack waste from Pennsylvania and other states is stored in three large recently painted bright blue tanks, each with a useless low earthen dike, until it is shipped by truck to Ohio injection wells.  A pending plan to expand the facility and bring the waste by barge has made it a focus by those concerned by the rapidly expanding importation of toxic, radioactive frack waste being dumped in Ohio communities. Each barge can carry up to a half million gallons of liquid industrial chemical waste.

Activists wearing dust masks and hazmat-style suits served donuts to the workers and shut down the site for the day. Nate Ebert sat for five hours atop a pole fastened to a truck that had arrived to unload waste. He and nine others were arrested and have been released on bail. Donations to the legal fund are encouraged. Please donate and see press release and up-to-date coverage and photos at AppalachiaResist.wordpress.com.

Also covered by Logan Daily, Ecowatch, Common Dreams, Democracy Now!, Columbus Dispatch  and WNBC News.  Note typo correction to original AR! release: The barges will bring frack waste up and down the Ohio. 

And letter of appreciation in Marietta Times, 3-1-13