Time to step up on injection wells
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By George Banziger Last fall I received a phone call from someone in Parkersburg who reported that she witnessed brine waste (production... Read More
Public lands need protection
By Randi Pokladnik For the first eight years of my life, our family lived in a small rented house in Steubenville, Ohio.... Read More
Expendable Ohio
By Randy Cunningham While researching my book Where We Live, on grassroots environmental organizing, I broke down the question of the environment into an... Read More
It’s not Groundhog Day. It’s a total takeover of Egypt Valley
Didn’t we just do this? Seriously. Last week, the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved fracking across thousands of acres in... Read More
Two bad bills would speed up fracking of Ohio parks, squash renewable energy
By Cathy Cowan Becker The Ohio legislature has a long history of kowtowing to oil and gas interests — and no pair... Read More
Action Needed: Recent Nominations put Piedmont Lake in danger.
Two new fracking nominations – 26-DNR-0004 and 26-DNR-0005 – will open another 1,600 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area to oil and gas extraction. These nominations... Read More
Enough is enough: Salt Fork up for fracking after last year’s blast
After a massive explosion about five miles away from Salt Fork State Park last year, an unknown oil and gas company has nominated 513 acres... Read More
Fracking of Appalachian Ohio is just more sickening plunder by outsiders
By Thomas Suddes Dig, drill, saw or blast, then take the money and run back to Wall Street: That’s been Appalachian Ohio’s... Read More
Two new nominations. One imminent threat to Ohio wildlife.
You may remember our previous emails about an unnamed oil and gas company that applied to frack Egypt Valley Wildlife Area. Well,... Read More
Fracking is toxic. We can’t lose more land to it
By Randi Pokladnik In 2024, 62 acres of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County were opened up for fracking by Ohio’s Oil and... Read More