Mountaineer NGL Storage Facility Community Meeting
Thu, Jan 21
|Zoom Community Meeting
The Mountaineer NGL storage facility threatens our health, our safety, our environment, and our economy. Join us on January 21st at 6:30 p.m. to learn about the risks this facility poses to Ohio River Valley residents and what you can do to stop its construction.
Time & Location
Jan 21, 2021, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Zoom Community Meeting
About The Event
The Mountaineer NGL Storage Facility, located 2.5 miles north of Clarington along Rt. 7 in Salem Township, poses a serious threat to our health, our safety, our environment, and our economy. If constructed, the facility would develop underground caverns for the storage of natural gas liquids (NGLs), highly flammable, explosive chemical compounds used in petrochemical production. Up to 3.25 million barrels of these hazardous liquids would be stored adjacent to and potentially beneath the Ohio River, endangering a source of drinking water for five million people.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is currently considering Mountaineer's sister company, Powhatan Salt Company's application for three injection well permits associated with the Mountaineer NGL storage facility. We believe the existing application materials for these wells do not contain enough information for anyone to evaluate the safety of these operations. The applications do not fully consider the possibility of contaminants migrating to underground…