Shocked! Now Mayor Sammarone Wants Local Control Of Fracking Y-town!

[Youngstownshrimp]

Youngstown can't even manage its building department having to turn it over to the county.  Now it wants to manage high tech horizontal drilling, when will Youngstown's unqualified leadership come to an end?

[irishbobcat]

When the mayor had a chance for local control of drilling via a call for council to adapt a fracking ban amendment...Sammarone didn't act...

Now that he has Green Party opposition in his November race for council president, Charly turns green.....PRICELESS!

From today's Vindy:

Mayor Charles Sammarone criticized state officials for permitting D&L Energy and other companies owned by Lupo to operate in Ohio after a D&L brine-injection well in the city was found to be the epicenter of 13 earthquakes.
The most serious of the quakes, occurring Dec. 31, 2011, led the state to close that well and suspend four others within a 7-mile radius. But it didn't shut down Lupo's other businesses.

"They should have been tougher on [D&L] the first time," Sammarone said Friday in his first public comments about Hardrock Excavating's decision last week to dump thousands of gallons of drilling waste into a storm drain in the city that empties into the Mahoning River.
"They should have shut him down after the [Dec. 31] earthquake and pulled his permits for all his businesses," Sammarone said. "This guy should not be allowed to open again.
Sammarone said he is "shocked" the state gave permits to D&L, which has at least 120 violations at 32 injection and extraction wells in Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a 2012 investigation by The Vindicator.
"Why would you give the guy a permit in the state of Ohio after all those violations?" Sammarone asked. "How did that happen?"
"This is why I oppose the state controlling drilling," Sammarone said. "The city should control permits and be allowed to shut down businesses. We are at the mercy of the state when it comes to permitting, licensing and inspecting wells. When we were doing it, we didn't have problems. If it's in our city, we should control what happens and what doesn't happen. We have to live with the problem. If we don't have the expertise, we'd ask the state for help."