Letter to the Editor: Do Not Put Gas Wells in Highland Heights City Park
Resident concerned about carcinogens, danger of drilling.
Please, members of City Council and Mayor Coleman, I do not want gas wells in the city park. I do not want carcinogenic fracking fluid in my backyard. To have these chemicals and wells in a city park is unconscionable.
The drilling companies and ODNR claim that frac drilling is 100 percent safe, but mounting scientific evidence indicates otherwise.
What if an accident happens in our park? You would be forever haunted, if wells go in under your watch. What if there is an explosion or a release of radioactive or toxic fumes while our kids are playing baseball or swimming or attending day camp? What if our groundwater, which runs into Lake Erie – the source of our own drinking water – becomes contaminated and flammable like in Bainbridge and in Medina and in other cities throughout the United States?
How can you even think of putting in gas wells, with all of these known potential risks hanging over your head? I do not believe frac gas wells are safe in urban areas, and I fear for our ground water.
Everyone wants to spin a pretty face on this process but it is not a good thing for our environment and it is not a good thing for Highland Heights.
On behalf of Highland Heights, you must make the right decision and simply say NO – not today, not tomorrow, not ever – to frac gas wells in the Community Park.
Respectfully,
Sam (Sandra) Lees
Highland Heights
Cheryl
7:36 am on Friday, February 3, 2012
I would love to know if these are some of the same people who have criticized Obama from the very beginning. I wonder if they are the people who were screaming "Drill, baby, drill!" That is, until it comes to drilling in their own back yards and affecting their own family's health. I wonder .....
AMA
9:13 am on Friday, February 3, 2012
The same people have no regard for the world in which we live.
Fracking,envirionmental issues,jobs,etc.
They are only in it for themselves, and the hec with everyone or everything else.
If we didn't have advocates and special interest groups fighting for what's right, this country will be destroyed.
The safety should be the first concern when thinking of putting wells in a public park.
For the people,for the water supplies.
marie harmon
3:30 pm on Friday, February 3, 2012
I understand Mayfield Heights and Gates MIlls already have many of these fracking wells in place. We do not need more in our neighborhood. If we have a corporate induced earthquake in Highland Heights how many many current politicians will be reelected? There is no benefit for anyone in this.
Paul Kovalcik
8:08 am on Saturday, February 4, 2012
Can anyone verify if this would be a High Volume Horizontal Fracking operation, or a conventional well? Which park? Was there, or will there be a public meeting/hearing? I live down the hill in Euclid and am very concerned because we all know what flows downhill. Unfortunately, only the state has the power to regulate fracking, but we may be able to simply ban horizontal fracking on a local level.
AMA
9:29 am on Saturday, February 4, 2012
Regardless of the type of fracking,wells don't belong in a family park,and or nestled into neighborhoods. Contaminated water supply and explosions are threatening this quiet city. The park is on Wilson Mills in Highland Hts.
marie harmon
1:40 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012
One of the high points of our regional community has been the Emerald Necklace park system. The levies always pass because so many people of all ages visit and enjoy the activities they provide. Corporate wealth and greed is now admiring them also. There is talk of a deer culling in North Chargrin Reservation by hunters and police rather than Licensed Vets and park employees as some other parks in our country are doing. Now gas wells are considered appropriate for parks. This will rule out many people especially children and the disabled from enjoying the parks. I and others will stop voting for the levies and there will go our park system. When those parks need upkeep the drilling companies and hunters will be no where in sight.
AMA
1:51 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012
The drilling companies also run when they contaminate water supplies for residences and roll in a huge tank of water in the yard for their water supply.
Thank you very much!!! They take no responsibility.
Scott Andrew Mills
6:04 pm on Saturday, February 4, 2012
KEEP THE POLLUTION OUT OF OUR PARK!!!!!