A second nomination for Egypt Valley needs our comments
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Egypt Valley Wildlife Area, in Belmont and Guernsey counties, is now being sought by a second oil and gas company for fracking.... Read More
Keen Wildlife Area in oil and gas crosshairs
Keen Wildlife Area is made up of 84 acres situated in eastern Ohio in western Harrison County 2 1/2 miles south of... Read More
Fracking industry targets Egypt Valley Wildlife Area
For 70 years, the land that makes up Egypt Valley Wildlife Area in Belmont and Guernsey counties was subjected to surface mining.... Read More
Salt Fork town hall to discuss fracking and more
The town hall will be conducted open meeting/open forum style and any person who desires to speak may do so for a reasonable amount of time.
Activists are just citizens who care about Ohio’s parks
We’ve been called tree-huggers, hippies, snowflakes, and protestors. The fossil fuel industry is especially fond of the label “activists.” The definition of an activist is a person who engages in social or political actions to make the world a better place.
Eastern Ohio must fight to preserve natural resources, stop Salt Fork fracking
You don’t have to believe in climate change or anti-frack science to oppose the plans to frack Salt Fork. This is about more than the environment. This is about eastern Ohio standing its ground and protecting its precious resources.
Ohioans are on the fence about fracking. Why is the state pushing for more drilling on public lands?
There’s clear dissonance between the state’s political agenda and the concerns of its residents. While proponents of state park leasing point to prospective revenue, Ohioans share broad and resolute concern about the documented threats of fracking, like air and water pollution and rampant carbon emissions that worsen climate change.
Letter to the editor: We can’t trust oil and gas to police itself
The Ohio legislature at the end of December 2022 signed a law that allowed fracking underneath state lands. Currently there are several nominations up for fracking around Salt Fork State Park.
Salt Fork State Park, Zepernick Wildlife Area, and Valley Run Wildlife Area in Ohio on list to be fracked
As of May 30th, oil and gas companies can “nominate” land parcels within citizen-owned state parks and forests to obtain fracking leases. Parcel leases need approval from the four-member Oil and Gas Land Management Commission, a group which lacks any scientific expertise.
Save Ohio Parks and allies rally to fight against fracking at Salt Fork State Park
About 65 people from Save Ohio Parks, Ohio Environmental Council, Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action, Third Act Ohio, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Leave No Child Inside, and Ohio Sierra Club picnicked and rallied against fracking on Ohio public lands.