#OccupyYoungstown

Join us! Ohio EPA PUBLIC MEETING Thurs., August 10, 6:00 pm
Eugenia Atkinson Recreation Center
903 Otis Street, Youngstown, OH 44510
regarding the DRAFT PERMIT proposing to allow SOBE to PYROLYZE TIRES RIGHT NEXT TO OUR REVITALIZED DOWNTOWN YOUNGSTOWN.
USE THIS PUBLIC MEETING TO VOICE YOUR CONCERNS to the OHIO EPA - TELL THEM you oppose granting the permit!

Make sure to tell all of your family, friends and neighbors to submit their concerns via email or mail (postmarked by Aug. 24, 2023!)(addresses below)
Email or Mail Comments & Questions to Ohio EPA:

[email protected] [Erik Bewley]

Write the Ohio EPA: "Do NOT issue permit to SOBE!"

Andrew Hall
Permit Review/Development Section
Ohio EPA, DAPC
50 West Town Street Suite 700
PO Box 1049
Columbus, Ohio 43216-1049
and
Ohio EPA DAPC, Northeast District Office
2110 East Aurora Rd.
Twinsburg, OH 44087

We are reaching out as we try to connect the folks and organizations working and/or concerned about stopping SOBE’s pyrolysis plant next to revitalized downtown Youngstown.

You may have seen some of this information but we are compiling it in one place for easier share-ability.

Hope you can attend the meeting and can help to get the word out.

PLEASE, if you know of others who could weigh in on this DRAFT permit, share this Post with them.

Materials to Share:

DRAFT permit from OH EPA for the SOBE plant https://bit.ly/OEPAdraft

For more information about SOBE, citizen’s actions and other info, visit us at:
Sobe Concerned Citizens of Youngstown https://www.stop-sobe.com/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SustainableYoungstown

Submit public Comment to OH EPA using a form: https://youngstownneighbor.wixsite.com/sobepubliccomment

Submit public Comment to PUCO (Public Utilities Commission) using their form - explained here: https://bit.ly/commentPUCOreSOBE

Zoning Petition urging NO industrial variance be granted to this pyrolysis plant: https://bit.ly/zoningpetitionSOBE pdf
Frequently asked questions about the SOBE proposed site via OH EPA: https://bit.ly/phase1FAQ-OHEPA pdf

Join us TODAY - THURSDAY 5 PM, May 18, 2023
221 Belmont Ave. at Rayen Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44502

YOUNGSTOWN – On Thursday May 18, 2023, at 5:00 PM, SOBE Concerned Citizens (SCC) will hold a Press Conference at 221 Belmont Ave. across from SOBE Thermal Energy Solutions. We continue to take action to stop SOBE from being allowed to open a tire gasification plant at 205 North Avenue in Downtown , and a computer waste and plastics gasification plant in , Ohio. We invite the public, elected officials, neighborhood groups and residents of Youngstown and Lowellville to join us.

We will be reviewing the timeline of SCC actions against SOBE, describing the proposed pyrolysis project and process, explaining the designation of Youngstown as an “EPA Environmental Justice Community of Concern”, and sharing recent events including the zoning letter petition that has been signed by more than 550 residents. Council President Tom Hetrick will discuss his letter of concern to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency(OHEPA) on behalf of the Youngstown community and the OHEPA’s recent reply to Hetrick’s letter.

SOBE Thermal Energy Solutions acquired the defunct Youngstown Thermal steam plant, which is located in a mixed-use community zone intended for businesses, restaurants, apartments, churches and schools, and not for industrial uses. The existing thermal plant is “grandfathered in,” as an historic nonconforming use to provide steam heat for downtown businesses, but SOBE seeks to open a factory that will superheat tires to produce synthetic gas, which is an expansion and intensification of industrial uses not permitted in a mixed-use community zone. Furthermore, the synthetic gas is toxic and has been classified by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard as highly explosive hazardous material. Air emissions and dangers of fire and explosions from this type of operation would threaten public health and safety.

At the press conference, residents will voice their concerns and welcome citizens to actively participate in protecting our community. SOBE Energy Solutions of Dublin, Ohio is a consulting firm who seeks to make money with the proposed process of thermolyzing tires next to downtown Youngstown. They have no operating business from which we can obtain air emissions data from the process. We are announcing that Youngstown and Lowellville residents are not Guinea Pigs. SOBE’s business proposal is untested, not proven safe, and not welcome.

For More information: www.stop-sobe.com
Concerned Citizens: 330-333-1264, [email protected]
Youngstown
Read Zoning Letter Petition: https://tinyurl.com/sobepetition

cc: News Radio 570 WKBN WKBN 27 Youngstown OH WYTV Valley Greens Our Revolution Mahoning Valley Mahoning Matters Tribune Chronicle, Warren OH/Vindicator Lowellville, Ohio The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co. The Jambar Mayor Jamael Tito Brown The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown

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Is this safe?! Won't this be highly explosive-prone? In the middle of downtown Youngstown?! NEW fuel tank to hold natural gas or pyrolized truck tires and plastic waste ( ) - old Thermal Heat plant to supposedly run on both natural gas and syngas.

205 North Ave & North Ave, Youngstown, OH 44502

The syngas will supposedly be created in a Lowellville plant and tanker-trucked up to Ytown.
The process is proprietary (i.e. secretive) and no-one in the world has figured out how to do it yet in not only a -free ⚠️ way but also a financially profitable way!

NEWS coverage: (sometimes paywalls) 🙁 :
**VIDEO** via The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co.'s YouTube - 3 minutes video w/ David Ferro owner of SOBE:
https://youtu.be/3QFG96c1vC8

READ MORE BELOW......

Is this safe?! Won't this be highly explosive-prone? In the middle of downtown Youngstown?! NEW fuel tank to hold natural gas or pyrolized truck tires and plastic waste ( ) - old Thermal Heat plant to supposedly run on both natural gas and syngas.

205 North Ave & North Ave, Youngstown, OH 44502

The syngas will supposedly be created in a Lowellville plant and tanker-trucked up to Ytown.
The process is proprietary (i.e. secretive) and no-one in the world has figured out how to do it yet in not only a -free ⚠️ way but also a financially profitable way!

NEWS coverage: (sometimes paywalls) :-( :
**VIDEO** via The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co.'s YouTube - 3 minutes video w/ David Ferro owner of SOBE:
https://youtu.be/3QFG96c1vC8

via WKBN 27 Youngstown OH https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/renovations-at-thermal-heating-complex-in-youngstown/

via The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co. https://businessjournaldaily.com/sobe-energy-steams-ahead-embraces-new-era
⚠️📙⚠️📙⚠️📙⚠️
RESEARCH syngas/pyrolosis and good luck finding any company who has figured out how to do it in not only a -free ⚠️ way but also a financially profitable way!
Can anyone say "Chill plant"?

An attempt at an earlier version of the process was HALTED in 2016 across the border in Crawford Cnty, via GoErie.com | Erie Times-News
💧 https://www.goerie.com/story/news/2016/03/30/plan-abandoned-for-tires-to/25085255007/

⚠️ https://e360.yale.edu/features/in-europe-a-backlash-is-growing-over-incinerating-garbage

⚠️ https://www.biorootenergy.com/alcohol-solutions/gasification-incineration-whats-the-difference/

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The 4 basic gasifier designs. Click the pic for info about this
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⚠️ https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/02/07/transforming-our-trash-into-energy-through-gasification.html

⚠️ https://globalsyngas.org/syngas-technology/syngas-production/waste-to-energy-gasification/

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We're all ears 🐰! Why would state legislature allow waste to be sold without any warning labels? That is exactly what HB 282 and SB 171 bills do. State Representative Jason Stephens, State Senator Tim Schaffer, Michael Rulli, Michele Lepore-Hagan for State Rep.: it is your job to protect Ohioans - Vote NO.

via Ohio Brine Task Force
cc: Bob Hagan

There's not a single reason that the state legislature should kowtow to one man to let him sell his radioactive oil and gas waste without any warning labels. That is exactly what the 'Radiate Ohioans' Bill does. State Representative Jason Stephens and State Senator Tim Schaffer it is your job to protect Ohioans!

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This waste injection well was shut down because of but the company is pushing to have it reopen despite the 90-year-old dam located a mile away.
Background:
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2022/02/northeast-ohio-injection-well-operator-asks-state-board-to-allow-more-powerful-earthquakes-before-required-shutdown.html?outputType=amp
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History of decisions w/ AWMS over the years
🔶 https://www.facebook.com/CAIWHubbard/posts/420401052125834
🔶 https://www.facebook.com/StopFrackingOhio/posts/2378220068864440
🔶 2 American Water Management Services LLC wastewater injection wells:
41.197515,-80.774235, Heaton Blvd SE & Rte 169, Niles, OH 44446 (the wells)
🔶deep well
https://gis.ohiodnr.gov/mapviewer/WellSummaryCard.asp?api=34155240750000
🔶shallow well
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Protest opposes reopening of Wethersfield injection well It's the same well the state ordered to close in 2014 after it cited seismic activity at the site. The deep-injection well is located in Weathersfield Township just off State Route 169.

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There's gold at the end of the rainbow for committee Chairs State Representative Jason Stephens and State Senator Tim Schaffer IF they protect Ohioans! Keep from being radiated and vote NO on HB 282 and SB 171!
☘️
via Ohio Brine Taskforce

waste should not be a "product"! If these bills become law, it will be legal to spread waste. We'll see unprecedented contamination and widespread cancer.

cc: WKBN 27 Youngstown OH
News Radio 570 WKBN
The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co.
21 WFMJ
Friends of the Mahoning River
Guardians of Mill Creek Park
Mahoning River Paddling,Restoration Group
Mahoning County Farm Bureau

There's gold at the end of the rainbow for committee Chairs State Representative Jason Stephens and State Senator Tim Schaffer if they protect Ohioans! Keep Ohio from being radiated and vote NO on HB 282 and SB 171! ☘️

Show us you give a luck! ☘️ - some are lucky to have clean drinking water in but not those exposed to waste!

State Senator Tim Schaffer & State Representative Jason Stephens, pls keep us safe by voting "NO!" on HB 282 & SB 171!


via Ohio Brine Taskforce

These 2 bills are now in the committees of Ohio House Energy and Natural Resources and the Ohio Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources

Find your own legislators here:
https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislators/district-maps

waste!

cc: The Business Journal - Youngstown Publishing Co.
News Radio 570 WKBN
21 WFMJ
News on the Green
cleveland.com

Some of us are lucky to have clean drinking water in Ohio! It's not the case for those who are exposed to radioactive oil and gas waste. Chairs State Representative Jason Stephens and State Senator Tim Schaffer keep Ohio safe and vote no on HB 282 & SB 171. ☘️

If you care about the health and safety of State Senator Tim Schaffer & State Representative Jason Stephens you'll vote "NO" on HB 282 and SB 171 - these bills will make it legal to spread waste which will permanently contaminate farmland and cause widespread cancer.

🍀
waste
via Ohio Brine Taskforce

cc: cleveland.com The Columbus Dispatch Akron Beacon Journal Enquirer - Cincinnati and Kentucky Dayton Daily News
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https://www.facebook.com/OHBrineTaskforce/photos/a.102782925709489/102782915709490/

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Coshocton Environmental and Community Awareness, Inc.
Protect Youngstown
Prohibit Injection Wells - Ohio
Torch CAN DO.
ACFAN - Athens County's Future Action Network - formerly Fracking Network

For the health and saftey of Ohio's citizens, we ask Chair State Senator Tim Schaffer and Chair State Representative Jason Stephens to vote no on HB 282 & SB 179. These bills will make it legal to spread radioactive oil and gas waste which will permanently contaminate farmland and cause widespread cancer. ☘️

New brine taskforce working to protect public health and safety by stopping use of waste
https://www.facebook.com/OHBrineTaskforce/photos/a.102782925709489/102782915709490/

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