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Wheeling Water Warriors: Awareness Rally
This Saturday, 6/15/13, from noon to 4:00 pm in Garden Park in Warwood the Wheeling Water Warriors are having an awareness rally.
There will be free music provided by Joe Zelek, Cabin Fever Strings Band, and Uncle Eddie and Robin.
Dr. Ben Stout, Professor of Biology at Wheeling Jesuit University, will be speaking on the six (6) reasons Greenhunter should not open their proposed facility in Warwood. Lots of information and handouts will be available.
There will be free children’s activities as well. We hope to see you all there!!!!
Erin Bowers, Wheeling Water Warriors
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Opposition to GreenHunter Frack Water Plant Persists
From Article By Ian Hicks, Wheeling Intelligencer, June 4, 2013
As GreenHunter Water officials prepare to present their site plan for a proposed frack wastewater recycling facility in Warwood to the Wheeling Planning Commission, residents who fear for the safety of their drinking water again brought their concerns to City Council.
“You’re sitting in those chairs because the good people of Wheeling elected you to them. … The decisions you make or don’t make will impact many other people than in just Wheeling,” Warwood resident Robin Mahonen told council members during their meeting Tuesday.
Mozart Road resident Erin Bowers also presented council members with copies of a 2011 U.S. Geological Survey study on the presence of radium in fracking wastewater. The study states radium levels are higher in produced water from the Marcellus Shale compared with other shale formations in the Appalachian Basin.
Although drilling waste set off radiation alarms more than 1,000 times at Pennsylvania landfills during 2012, neither the Nuclear Regulatory Commission nor the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection consider radioactive material in that waste to be dangerous.
The company has an easement it believes gives it the right to use an existing pipe that runs beneath the trail to load water onto barges for transport, but city officials contend GreenHunter Water would need a zone change to use the docks, which would require council’s approval.
But barge loading isn’t yet part of GreenHunter’s site plan because the Coast Guard and other federal agencies have yet to decide whether to allow transport of fracking wastewater on inland waterways. Company officials have said they will proceed with the Wheeling facility regardless of that decision and simply move the water by truck if necessary.
Councilwoman Gloria Delbrugge said city officials have been invited to tour GreenHunter Water’s plant in New Matamoras, Ohio, on Thursday morning, and the Wheeling Planning Commission will meet to review the company’s Warwood site plan at 6 p.m. Monday.
Delbrugge, who represents Warwood, has been an outspoken opponent of the planned facility since the company announced its acquisition of the former Seidler’s Oil Service Property on North 28th Street in March.
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