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A citizen's guide to the well, the law, and what is coming · Fairfield County, OH

What is actually happening with the well in Amanda Township, and the law behind it.

Fairfield Grounded is a nonpartisan citizen education and advocacy organization serving Fairfield County, Ohio. We are residents, landowners, farmers, and neighbors, unaffiliated with any political party, campaign, or commercial interest. We work so that decisions about this county's land, water, safety, and economic future are made in the open, with adequate notice, and with the informed participation of the people who live here. That work covers carbon storage wells, injection wells, data centers, behind-the-meter power plants, and the pipelines that connect them.

We do not ask you to take our word for it. Every claim on this site is linked to the document it came from. We research the issues and bring the receipts. You decide.

That is not a slogan. It is the regulatory chain now moving through Fairfield County. A 2025 state law lets data centers build gas-fired power plants directly on their own property through a fast-tracked approval process. A separate 2026 law, HB 170, gives Ohio its first legal framework for injecting the resulting CO₂ permanently underground. A stratigraphic test well near Amanda Township, the kind of well drilled to determine whether deep rock can hold CO₂, is being drilled now.

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Lets data centers build “behind the meter” gas-fired generation on their own land, with a fast-tracked approval process that largely bypasses local zoning. This is why gas plant proposals are appearing next to data center projects statewide. Signed June 24, 2026; effective September 23, 2026. Creates Ohio's first legal framework for carbon storage (Class VI wells), including the 70% forced-pooling rule for underground “pore space.” HB 170 governs pore space and consolidation. It does not give Ohio the power to issue the well permit itself: Class VI permits for Ohio wells are issued by U.S. EPA unless and until EPA grants Ohio primacy.

Everything else on this site is the record, presented so you can reach your own conclusion. This is the one page where we state ours. We oppose Class VI CO₂ injection wells on three grounds, and the three converge on one point: each removes the public's ability to know what is happening and to choose.

Fairfield Grounded is nonpartisan and unaffiliated with any political party, campaign, or commercial interest. We are not here to tell you what to think about data centers, gas plants, or carbon storage. We are here so that no one in this county learns about a project after the decisions are already made. This is the period in which residents can act, not the period in which they will be told. What you do with that information is your decision.

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