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Residents complain injection wells causing a stink in Southington [Video]

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Some folks in Southington, have a problem with the injection wells that accept brine water from the fracking process to extract natural gas from the shale deep underground.

An injection well in Southington Ohio is stirring up complaints. 

While some folks enjoyed the nice weather, some residents there say they couldn’t, adding the stench is so bad you could smell the odor as you drove closer to the site, even with your windows up.

The NAACP and FracTracker Alliance are teaming up to identify problems and lack of testing about this environmental justice issue.

Some folks in Southington, have a problem with the injection wells that accept brine water from the fracking process to extract natural gas from the shale deep underground.

“In 2018 we started with various elected officials to see what we could do to have this location shut down because of the fumes,” Annett McCoy, NAACP 2nd …

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