Mountaineer NGL Storage Hub- Alex Cole & Megan Hunter

Carolyn Harding with Alex Cole and Megan Hunter, activist/advocates protecting the Ohio River and supporting communities fighting an ODNR (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) permit to allow the Colorado-based Powhatan Salt Co., (New York private equity funded), to drill into natural salt caverns along and under the Ohio River to store highly flammable and explosive natural gas liquids. Alex Cole is a native of Fraziers Bottom WV on the Kanawha River. He has lived his whole life in the Chemical Valley and knows first hand what it is like to live on a river that is polluted beyond repair. Alex now works as a community organizer for The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition fighting the proposed Appalachian Storage Hub, trying to prevent what happened to the Kanawha from happening to the Ohio River, and protect the drinking water source for 5 million people from the petrochemical industry. Here is the link to the letter writing campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/.../tell-the-odnr-to-reject... Megan Hunter is a staff attorney with Earthjustice. Her work focuses on challenging new oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley. Before joining Earthjustice, Megan was staff attorney and outreach director at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services and partner at her own firm, Hunter & Hunter LLC. In this capacity, she worked with communities in Ohio living with the ills of rapidly expanding oil and gas development, proposed petrochemical buildout, and legacy coal and steel mill pollution. She has represented individuals in defending their land and health from pipeline and well pad development, and she successfully litigated a Clean Water Act citizen suit that ended the practice of oil and gas produced water discharge to the Mahoning River. Megan graduated with honors from Vermont Law School, where she served as senior managing editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and she holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Cornell University and Bachelor of Arts in Environmenta