Click the correct button if you are submitting comments as an individual or an organization. You can upload files as attachments if you wish. Put your comments in the box for comments. Hit the Green “Submit a Formal Comment” button at the upper right, and a form will appear. Go to the Federal Register webpage for public comments on Michigan’s Primacy Application to the EPA here: When: Deadline for submitting comments is April 19, 2021. Write a simple “public comment” to the EPA today to stop the handover of these toxic wells to Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy. Just the gas and oil industry did! The industry is ecstatic about the idea of EGLE being totally in charge of injection wells filled with toxic oil and gas wastes! Yet thousands of Michigan residents have shown up at EPA hearings in Michigan cities and townships over injection wells proposed for their community over the years. Consequently, no Michigan residents showed up or wrote in opposition. EPA’s public notice system was inadequate and interested individuals and organizations interested in injection wells in Michigan were not noticed directly. The whole process has not been transparent.
The public, and the EPA, know NOTHING about whether the State is properly enforcing the laws and actually protecting Michigan’s underground drinking sources! Yet, EPA has approved Michigan’s application. Now it’s been revealed that a top-level employee in the Oil, Gas and Minerals division responsible for compliance and enforcement is charged with embezzling-to the tune of over $1.5 million.ĮGLE’s “primacy” application to the EPA completely omitted the required section asking the State of Michigan to detail its history of compliance and enforcement, what violations there have been, contamination reports, well casing failures, and citizen complaints. Michigan’s Oil, Gas and Minerals Division of the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, (EGLE, formerly the DEQ) applied to the EPA for total control over oil and gas injection wells. ACTION ALERT FROM BAN MICHIGAN FRACKING Please write the EPA today!
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