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To the Editor:
This thought of having CO2 disposal coming to Christian County has landowners and farmers taking a negative attitude toward this project with good reason. This is good farming ground that has been in families for a long time, and they don’t want it disrupted with well head and roads. I farm several fields here at Mt. Auburn that has oil wells to farm around. The roads going to these wells are usually blocking drainage after a big rain event. The roads are never straight with the planter rows and you seem to always have point rows around the pumping unit and the aggravation of farming around them.
When and if they drill deep wells for CO2 the rigs will take almost 3 weeks to drill that deep with mud being packed out on roads. There will also be a lot compaction to fields. Once the drilling starts they run 24 hours a day with supplies being taken in, mud or not. Township roads could be damaged from all the heavy traffic. Some rigs have contained water tanks for their water supply, while others will dig pits to hold water that they need for drilling. Sometimes when drilling pits, they hit tile. When pits are filled it takes several years for the ground to settle, and then you get stuck when farming this area.
The area that this group wants is top of the line farming ground, not for disposal waste!!!
If you haven’t read the contract, I’m not sure that you don’t have to contact them to set a fence post let alone other language that you or your lawyer might have trouble interpreting. I’m not sure, but the CO2 Company might own the mineral rights. They will also have to be contacted for any project that might happen on your property.
I don’t see any reason Christian County would want to have this project with over 90% of landowners and farmers against it for some very good reasons.
If for some reason this project goes ahead, I see expansion for more things down the road taking good farm land for other things.
With landowners and farmers saying “We Don’t Want This”, what is the problem with the county board? Who will pay for all the destruction to the roads when the townships now have a hard time oiling and rocking roads because of shortage of funds? Check out some of the township roads or maybe take a trip up the Mt. Auburn road, County Highway 22, to the proposed drilling area.
Kenneth Hohenstein, Mt. Auburn
