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An Ohio court recently ruled that the earthquake-causing AWMS injection well on Rte. 169 in Weathersfield, only 3 miles from the already cracked Meander Reservoir Dam, can open up again after ODNR closed it due to the danger. (remember injection well earthquakes start small, keep happening, then get BIG, like the 4.0 at Northstar 1 Dec. 31, 2011) Thank the protestors, and GET INVOLVED in protecting our communities!
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NEW BOOK: Death By Democracy
Protecting Water and Life: Frontline Stories from Ohioans fighting corporate and state power The stakes are high in Death by Democracy. Communities face down and organize to oppose oil/gas fracking, fracking waste injection wells, industrial agriculture, water privatization and corporate control of elections.
This new book is written by the local organizers who engaged in these fights. With CELDF’s help, they took on the State of Ohio, the American Petroleum Institute and other powerful corporate lobbies in Ohio. Their organizing shifted local political dynamics, advanced rights of ecosystems and inspired campaigns and lawmaking in other states and countries, like Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and France. In this book, Ohioans share the lessons they learned from being on the receiving end of coordinated repression. Eventually, filing a federal civil rights lawsuit, arguing the systemic obstruction and tactics by local boards of elections and the State of Ohio – at the behest of corporate lobbies – amounted to civil rights violations resulting in censoring of local ballots and direct democracy by the people. In reality it was “death” by the democratic institutions they once believed in. |
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Rolling Stone Journalist Exposed the Harms of Radioactive Oil/Gas Waste at Youngstown, OH Jan 25 presentation
Watch video of Nobel's February 20 presentation: https://youtu.be/zaeZCHyamw4 |
Read the Feb 2020 Rolling Stone article by Justin Nobel "America’s Radioactive Secret; Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America" here |