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Tell your House Rep: Don’t speed up fracking our state parks!
On March 18, the House Natural Resources Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 219, which purports to revise the law on oil and gas wells in Ohio. In reality, it’s 87 pages of favors for the oil and gas industry – starting with fracking of Ohio’s state parks and public lands.If SB 219 passes,…
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Save Ohio Parks and environmental advocates warn against expanding frack leases under Ohio state parks and public lands
Environmental advocates and Ohioans converged in Columbus on Monday to call out the environmental havoc that extending lease terms to frack Ohio’s state parks and public lands will cause Ohio’s air, water, soils, biodiversity—and future generations.Save Ohio Parks; Freshwater Accountability Project…
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Tell the Commission: Fracking hands off Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area
An unnamed oil and gas company has submitted a “nomination” to the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission to frack 1,460 acres of Jockey Hollow Wildlife Area in Harrison County.If approved, it would be the third-largest tract of Ohio public land for oil and gas extraction. But before that…
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Save Ohio Parks statement on Gulfport Appalachia fracking well pad explosion, evacuation near Salt Fork State Park
Last night at 5:49 p.m., the Antrim, Ohio, volunteer fire department chief posted the first of four videos on its Facebook page of a raging fire at a well pad just off State Route 22. The location is a 5.7 miles – a seven-minute drive along SR 22 – from the entrance to Salt Fork…