Radioactive Brine Bills - Ohio HB 282 & SB 171 w/ Teresa Mills and Roxanne Groff

Carolyn Harding with Teresa Mills and Roxanne Groff, founders of the Ohio Brine Task Force, educating and organizing the people of Ohio regarding Oil & Gas liquid waste or, “Brine”, which is currently spread on our roadways for dust and ice control, sounding the alarm that this Brine is far more than salty water, in fact it’s dangerous - it’s Radioactive. For almost 30 years Teresa Mills has worked as a grassroots leader to help communities to find their voices, analyze data and develop strategic plans. She began her activism career by shutting down the Columbus trash Incinerator, which was polluting her neighborhood and was later defined as the largest emitter of dioxin in the country. Teresa is the Executive Director of the Buckeye Environmental Network, a statewide coalition of grassroots-focused groups. Today she works with Center for Health and Environmental Justice to train and assist grassroots leaders across the country. Teresa also coordinates CHEJ’s small Grants Program Roxanne Groff graduated from Ohio University and made Athens County her home. In 1978 she co-founded Save Our Rural Environment (S.O.R.E.), a grass roots group protesting the permitting of strip mines in eastern Athens County. Her interest in state law and the lack of implementation of rules by the regulatory agencies, led her to run for and win Bern Township Trustee and then Athens County Commissioner. Recently Roxanne has been working with Athens County Fracking Action Network (ACFAN), and Buckeye Environmental Network, opposing permitting toxic radioactive injection wells in Ohio and opposing the sale of mineral parcels on public lands, especially the Wayne National Forest in Ohio. She has lived off the grid for 45 years on her pastoral homestead in rural Athens County. Two radioactive Brine Bills are before the 134th Ohio General Assembly, as we speak, Ohio House Bill 282 and Senate Bill 171, both written to establish conditions for the sale of Brine as a commodity. One such product, currently marketed under the name AquaSalina,