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Senate panel hears widespread testimony urging ban on spreading oil-and-gas brine on roads
Summary
Supporters told the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that conventional oil-and-gas well brine used as a road deicer or dust suppressant contains elevated radium and other contaminants and urged passage of SB 329 to prohibit spreading it on public roads; the bill was set for a second hearing on 03/29.
The Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee heard hours of proponent testimony on SB 329, a bill that would prohibit spreading conventional oil-and-gas well brine on roadways, after witnesses and experts told the committee that the material contains elevated levels of radium and other hazardous contaminants.
Anton Krieger, executive director of Buckeye Environmental Network, opened proponent testimony by citing a 2017–2018 Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) study that, he said, found radium-226 and radium-228 concentrations in conventional well brine above administrative effluent limits. "Every single conventional well sampled from the study has exceeded the Ohio Administrative Code's effluent concentration of 60 picocuries per liter for either radium-226 or radium-228," Krieger said,…
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