"In the Hills & Hollows" Documentary to show how fracking has affected WV residents

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2. I am less than a mile from an Injection (fracking sewage) well.

I am in SE Ohio, but just west of Athens and most of the actual gas wells. Bus about 8 tenths of a mile from me is an Injection well where all of the leftover liquid waste from wells in OH, PA, and WV are brought and pumped into the earth. I call it a sewage well instead of an injection well because that is what it really is.

No one in this area I have mentioned it to even know the thing exists. I did not know it was there when I bought this place 12 years ago either. I keep wondering how much of this wast (that included radioactive elements as well as volatile hydrocarbons and all of the secret poisonous materials they put into fracking fluid) can be shoved down into that one hole. I used to see a few "brine" tankers a week. Now I see dozens a day from several companies passing by on the highway.

I think it is just a matter of time until some unknown fissure or crack now or in the future has this stuff bubble up into my well, or the city water wells a couple of miles further up.


A separate issue for fracked wells is that they have a very short lived production life. Old style gas wells could produce for over 20 years. From what I have read, fracked well have a very high initial production but are played out in less than 5 years. This is boom times for frackers right now, but the gold-rush could be gone in a few years, and they will be all gone except for the permanently polluted aquifers.