Ohio landowners say fracking wastewater is leaking underground

Ohio landowners say fracking wastewater is leaking underground

There’s a grimy saltwater seeping into their oil wells, and the Bobs are furious about it.  The Bobs – two landowners from Washington County named Bob Lane, 79, and Bob Wilson, 65 – own about 240 old-fashioned vertical oil wells over a few thousand acres across Southeast Ohio.  Between them, they said in interviews, at least 55 of their wells have “flooded” since about 2019. Instead of oil, they are now producing only a salty, sludgy, translucen…