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Senate committee hears sponsor testimony on bill to ban oil-and-gas brine on roads
Summary
Senators Paula Hicks Hudson and Kenneth Smith testified in favor of Senate Bill 3 29 at a first hearing before the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, citing state studies they say show radium levels in oil-and-gas brine far above the 60 picocuries-per-liter threshold; no vote was taken.
The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a first hearing on Senate Bill 3 29, with sponsors Sen. Paula Hicks Hudson and Sen. Kenneth Smith urging lawmakers to ban the surface application of oil-and-gas wastewater brine on public roads, saying state testing shows the material can contain high levels of radioactive radium.
"We should expressly prohibit the surface application of brine from oil and gas wells on roads," Paula Hicks Hudson said in sponsor testimony, citing concerns about contamination of the Great Lakes and other Ohio waterways and the public-health implications of radioactive runoff.
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