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Cathy Cowan Becker
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Tell the Ohio Power Siting Board: Don't give Meta another polluting gas plant!
Socrates South is a 200 MW gas combustion plant now operational to power the Meta Prometheus data center in New Albany, Ohio, the world's first 1 gigawatt (1000 MW) data center.This gas "plant" is really 15 simple cycle turbines - the least efficient type -- and 15 reciprocating internal combustion…
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An insane amount of public land is up for fracking on Monday
We have just learned that the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission will meet on Monday, June 29, to decide on a long list of nominations and bids to frack Ohio public land.We’re not going to lie … they are likely to approve most if not all the nominations and award most if not all the bids.That’s…
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I told Ohio lawmakers that a new law would put gas plants in residential areas. Now it’s happening in Hilliard.
This article first appeared in the Ohio Capital JournalLast March during the hearings on Ohio House Bill 15, I was the only representative of an environmental organization in Ohio to testify against it.The reason? It gave the Ohio Power Siting Board just 45 days to consider a major utility facility…
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Save Ohio Parks offers community presentations on the facts about fracking
Haga clic aquí para españolWhatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and the acceleration of climate change, chances are you don’t know enough, say environmental advocates at Save Ohio Parks.The…