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Fracking in Ohio State Parks :Enough is Enough !

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The Ohio State House Wants to Open Your Parks to Fracking
Stop The Bill in the Senate
(A letter from food & Water watch to me today Please sign Ohio our water & our parks are now in grave danger and all Americans who would be on our Lakes,rivers ,tributaries, in our rest areas drinking our water that means YOU! Just look at the water coming out of Penn. yea kinda gross and its flammable yummy . I don't have to tell you where the Ohio river flows (into the ole Miss,) talk about disaster I recommend you watch the movie Gasland its free and will explain Fracking in all its depravity)-figgdimension

June 1, 2011

Dear Gregory ,

Enough is Enough



Tell your state senator to protect your water today!
Last week the Ohio House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", in our state parks. This risky drilling process will turn our pristine state parks into industrial parks, but we've got a chance to stop it in the state Senate. Can you contact your state senator today?

What will drilling in state parks mean for you? It could be devastating for Ohio's drinking water. Fracking is a type of gas drilling that injects millions of gallons of fracking fluids – a mixture of up to 600 chemicals, water and sand – into a well to create pressure that cracks open rocks underground, allowing gas to escape and flow into wells.

The process could have disastrous consequences if any of these contaminants make their way into the water supply through leaks, spills or careless injection. Residents in neighboring Pennsylvania have already experienced the negative effects of fracking on the environment, public health and their own water – houses have even exploded in residential areas due to the pressurized gas! Despite all this, the Ohio state legislature is poised to give the oil and gas industry free rein to drill in our public lands.

Ohio's legislators must put our drinking water ahead of the oil and gas industry's millions of dollars.

Tell your legislators to keep our parks safe from drilling today!
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6946

Thanks for taking action,

Alex Beauchamp
Midwest Region Director
Food & Water Watch
abeauchamp(at)fwwatch(dot)org

Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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16 comments // Fracking in Ohio State Parks :Enough is Enough !

  • coldsweat
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      coldsweat  

    • Finally!!! Naiomi Judd has been trying to tell the world about it for years...but gets very little press. How come. MUst be big $$$$ has crossed into the pockets of the local politicians and shut their mouths and ears

    • 12 months ago
  • lazloman
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      lazloman  

    • A taste of things to come, if the rethuglicans get their agenda in place. So, you say your water's flammable? Well, then you best keep an extinguisher nearby.

    • 12 months ago
  • Dick_Cheney
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  

    • What will it take for them to realize, they are killing us one catastrophy at a time? What will they say when they destroy our environment? I'm sorry? Hell no! They haven't said they are sorry for what they did during the Bush years. We are left to deal with the pain of their bad judgement.

      Look at the Gulf Coast. Drill baby drill, didn't work out so well, did it? Frack baby frack, hasn't proven to be safe. Quite the contrary, people are lighting their water on fire.

      Trust is earned. Have they earned our trust? No! Then why should they be able to abuse our State Parks? They shouldn't! Keep their hands off our State Parks! Will they leave us with irreparable damage, then they walk off into the sunset, like George W.? Just say NO!

      We can't keep moving along to the wrongs! The price is too high!

    • 12 months ago
  • chief_longhair
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      chief_longhair  
    • Conniepae:

      the common people and our environment is acceptable collateral damage in the name of big corporate profits , look at the devastation from mountaintop removal,, look at oil spills,, this fracking crap is dangerous and must be stopped!!

    • 12 months ago
  • squarethecircle
  • Dailydummie1
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      Dailydummie1  
    • Conniepae:

      It will take us, send the letters, sign the petitions, and then, when the time is right, drop the computer, and pick up the bullhorn, and make our presence known. We need good leaders though.....The bought individual on the right is most likely worse then the bought individual on the left. Campaign reform, filibuster reform, reform in the practices of Lobbyists. Until these things happen, our politicians will always be bought and paid for, with a few exceptions.

    • 12 months ago
  • ArchDruid
  • figgdimension
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  

    • Keep Ohio's State Parks Safe from Fracking

      The State House of Representatives just voted to allow fracking and other drilling in Ohio's state parks, but there's still time to stop this bill in the Senate. Fracking is a type of gas drilling that injects millions of gallons of hydraulic fluids — a mixture of chemicals, water and sand — into a well to create pressure that cracks open underground rock and releases natural gas. This process can deplete and contaminate local water, damage the environment and threaten public health.

      We need a ban on fracking across the state, but right now the natural gas industry and their allies in the state legislature want to allow drilling even in the state's most pristine areas. That's why it's crucial for us to stand up for Ohio's state parks.

      Please contact your state senator today.

    • 12 months ago
  • Dailydummie1
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      Dailydummie1  
    • figgdimension:

      Thank you very much for posting this. This subject gets little attention and deserves to be at the forefront of our consciousness. Beohner should have to swill 50 gallons of flammable water before he moves forward with his $$$ first agenda. Bobby Kennedy's son was on Colbert last night talking about strip mining in the Appalachian Mountains, and the total corruption of the local and state officials. At the cost of leveling an area the size of Delaware. This is a common theme surrounding all forms of energy production, and it's influencing every facet of our society.

    • 12 months ago
  • dudefromtherock
  • figgdimension
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