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Is Ohio Violating the Great Lakes Compact?

Thompson, Justin Evan
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4664-0017
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1670878927692629

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2022, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography.
The question this paper addresses is whether or not the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and the State of Ohio are in violation of the Great Lakes Compact for allowing unapproved water to be depleted from the Great Lakes Basin Watershed. This project used two distinct study designs: a legal analysis of the Great Lakes Compact was conducted to interpret the binational agreement as written. Additionally, secondary data analysis was used to extract, extrapolate, aggregate, analyze and then interpret data from the ODNR to investigate whether or not this accord has indeed been violated by examining the quantities of water used to drill and stimulate oil and gas wells in Ohio permitted after December of 2008 when the Compact went into effect. 450 wells were found to have been permitted in the Lake Erie Watershed between December of 2008 and December of 2021. This study has shown that the use of injection wells as a means of disposal for hydraulic fracturing wastewater originally derived from the Lake Erie Watershed is in violation of the spirit of the Great Lakes Compact. There are potentially implications for future litigation to address this violation pending further research.
Katherine Amey, Ph.D. (Advisor)
David Singer, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Richard Adams, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Aimee Ward, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
49 p.
Environmental Law; Environmental Management; Environmental Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; International Law; Law; Legal Studies; Mining; Petroleum Production; Political Science; Public Policy; Regional Studies; Sustainability; Water Resource Management
Great Lakes Compact; injection wells; hydraulic fracturing; fracking; environmental law; transnational environmental policy; international treaty

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  • Thompson, J. E. (2022). Is Ohio Violating the Great Lakes Compact? [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1670878927692629

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Thompson, Justin. Is Ohio Violating the Great Lakes Compact? 2022. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1670878927692629.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Thompson, Justin. "Is Ohio Violating the Great Lakes Compact?" Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1670878927692629

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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