In a recent public radio interview, an Ohio oil and gas industry spokesperson claimed fracking was safe and environmentally friendly.
The statement raised the interest of Save Ohio Parks steering committee member Jenny Morgan, who filed a records request with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to see if the claim was true. She received thousands of ODNR reports on inspecting and cleaning up Ohio oil and gas accidents over the last nine years.
Morgan was so disturbed by descriptions of methane gas leaks and radioactive fracking wastewater spilled into area waterways that she started a daily accident report on Facebook, summarizing, dissecting and posing questions about cleanup and mitigation.
She found that thousands of fracking-related accidents and cleanups happening nearly every day over the last nine years challenges the Ohio gas and oil industry’s claims that fracking is environmentally friendly.