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Suburbs Being Converted to Industrial Zones for Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio

Suburbs Being Converted to Industrial Zones for Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio

Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods By Tish O’Dell and Michelle Aini Gas and oil companies are operating in Broadview Heights with disregard for public health, as seen on this public playground. Why are Broadview Heights, Ohio residents accepting the loss of their rights? Is it because many of them don’t even realize that their […]

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    Suburbs Being Converted to Industrial Zones for Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio

    Suburbs Being Converted to Industrial Zones for Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio

    Mothers Against Drilling in Our Neighborhoods By Tish O’Dell and Michelle Aini Gas and oil companies are operating in Broadview Heights with disregard for public health, as seen on this public playground. Why are Broadview Heights, Ohio residents accepting the loss of their rights? Is it because many of them don’t even realize that their […]

    Ohio Woman Arrested for Blocking Gate to Wastewater Injection Well Site

    Ohio Woman Arrested for Blocking Gate to Wastewater Injection Well Site

    Frack Free Ohio Madeline ffitch, a 31-year-old Millfield, Ohio woman who is outraged at the impact fracking wastewater is having on her community, blocked the gates to the Ginsburg wastewater injection well site on Ladd Ridge Road, west of Athens, Ohio. ffitch was arrested this morning for trespassing while locked to two 50-gallon cement filled […]

    Chesapeake Energy Settles Contaminated Water Well Lawsuit for $1.6M

    Chesapeake Energy Settles Contaminated Water Well Lawsuit for $1.6M

    Frack Check WV Kevin Begos writing for the Associated Press, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 23, describes an open legal settlement in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, involving three families who experienced contaminated water wells as a result of Marcellus drilling by Chesapeake Energy. Jared McMicken of Wyalusing said the agreement reached Thursday provides […]

    Why EPA Should Create New Rules for Oil and Gas Waste in 2012

    Why EPA Should Create New Rules for Oil and Gas Waste in 2012

    Natural Resources Defense Council By Amy Mall Used with permission of NRDC – Switchboard With the void of federal protection from toxic oil and gas waste, states can and should create better rules. As I mentioned in a recent blog post, a new West Virginia law takes one tiny step in that direction. From now […]