On average, 160,000 gallons of waste is produced each day in just the first five days after a gas well is hydraulicly fractured. The gas wells and petrochemical plants themselves also create enormous quantities of solid and liquid waste that have to be put somewhere. By current law, operators are not required to disclose many of these chemicals to the public, and plant workers are often not informed about potential exposure to these toxic substances. Once the gas is delivered to the petrochemical plant, additional toxic chemicals are required to make the process work. The drilling of these additional wells will require somewhere between 4 and 6 million diesel truck trips to haul equipment and material, sometimes in the form of toxic chemicals, to the well sites. In the case of the Shell plant, for example, it has been estimated that 1,000 new wells will be needed every five to 10 years.
This means that a large number of gas wells will have to be drilled to fill the need.
TRAIN VALLEY 2 ENOUGH STARS TO GET A NEW TRAIN CRACKER
Petrochemical plants like the Shell plastics cracker plant in Beaver County and the hydrogen hub now proposed in the region all require considerable amounts of gas feedstock. It’s clear that the building of more industrial plants using fossil fuels in the Ohio River Valley will raise the risk that many more families in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia will be exposed to toxic chemicals, taxing the region with higher health care costs and lowering the quality of life for virtually everyone. Tightening lax standards on the transportation of hazardous chemicals is certainly needed to protect public health, but we also need to look at where those chemicals are going. Similar train derailments have occurred in other states since that time.
Since pollution knows no borders, this polluted air was carried to communities in Pennsylvania as well. The recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, spewed toxic chemicals into surrounding neighborhoods.
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