CCBOR Newsletter - January 14th, 2020

https://www.columbusbillofrights.org/

Markie Miller of Toledoans for Safe Water, during initiative to get

Lake Erie Bill of Rights on the ballot in 2019

January signature opportunities ...

... for Columbus Community Bill of Rights!

Let's kick off the New Year,

As We Push toward Getting our Signatures!

We have over 7,500 signatures to get the Columbus Community Bill of Rights on the ballot, and

we want 18,000 by JUNE 1!

Come join the final push!

We have a great event next Monday, and Primary day, March 17, is a MAJOR focus!

Next Monday, come and invite your friends and family to Lineage Brewery!

Clean Water for Columbus Craft Beer @Lineage Brewery

Monday, January 20, 2020, 6:00 - 9:00PM.

Join us, the Columbus Community Bill of Rights, in exploring the singular and diverse world of Columbus Craft Beer. In this monthly series, we'll talk with the brewers and guests who know a lot about Clean water and how important it is for our people and this phenomenal burgeoning industry! FREE EVENT/CASH BAR. Our first guests will be Will Falk and Tish O'Dell from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, celdf.org. They will talk and share some great film clips of upcoming movies and the hilarious Lake Erie Bill of Rights episode on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Location: Lineage Brewing, 2971 N. High St., Columbus 43202. Facebook.

For more upcoming opportunities to gather signatures, click HERE to visit our 'Event Details' page on our website

Contact Bill Lyons at wmlyons@gmail.com for petitions and tips!

Consider taking your petition to events you normally attend, to get signatures from friends and neighbors.

Help out the effort by donating!

We need to print petitions and cards.

Send a check, made out to "CCBOR PAC", and mail it to CCBOR at

P.O. Box 14741, Columbus OH 43214.

Thank you!

'Russian Roulette'?

EPA weighs release of drilling wastes

A gas drilling rig sits just off the road in Pennsylvania's Moreland Township.

Ruhrfisch/Wikimedia Commons

[Excerpts:]Broadening the amount of wastewater released into rivers and streams would increase the danger of pollution, Hill and environmentalists who oppose the idea say.

The Delaware River Basin Commission, which oversees water quality in the river that forms Pennsylvania's eastern basin, has banned hydraulic fracturing since 2010. But two years ago, the commission floated the idea of maintaining the ban on gas production, but allowing disposal of produced water within the river's watershed (Energywire, Sept. 13, 2017).

Click HERE or on above image to read full article in E&W News.

Florida Legislature Seeks to Obstruct Rights

of Nature; Ohio Partners Respond

Click HERE or above to read Statement of support

Volunteers needed for

Ohio presentation on Rolling Stone story about radioactive aspect of fracking soon to be published

Radioactive Risks Posed by the Oli and Gas industry

A Presentation by Justin Nobel, Science Journalist with the Rolling Stone Magazine

(St. Clairsville, Ohio)—On Friday, January 24, 2020, Justin Nobel, Science Journalist writing for the Rolling Stone Magazine will hold an informational meeting regarding the radioactive risks associated with the oil and gas industry at Ohio University Eastern in Belmont County, Ohio. Justin has spent the past 20 months reporting on the issue of the radioactivity brought to the surface in oil and gas production, and the many different pathways of contamination posed to the industry's workers, the public and communities, and the environment. Justin's story is due out in the February issue of Rolling Stone magazine, and he is also writing a book on the topic to be published with Simon & Schuster and tentatively titled: "Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It."

This is important information, and it is information all should hear -- We ask that concerned residents, industry workers and their families, policy makers and anyone else in the community please feel free to attend. Also, on hand will be Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice, an environmental scientist who has been studying oil and gas waste for over 40 years.

Please join us for this important presentation on Friday January 24, 2020 from 5:30-7:30 PM, at Ohio University Eastern, Shannon Hall Theater, 45425 National Road West, St. Clairsville, OH 43950.

For additional information contact: Jill Hunkler, j, (740) 238-1256, jahhunkler@gmail.com

IF there are individuals you think would be interested in helping to volunteer to distribute information, please share this text with them:

We are building a task force to distribute the information. Justin wants to get the information in the hands of industry workers, their families, and impacted community members. Our plan is to leave the information in restaurants, gas stations, man camps, and other places where the workers might visit frequently, Including the rest areas on interstate 70, and giving them to friends and family who work in the industry. We will coordinate the effort and have individuals lined up to do the distribution on January 22nd.

The flyer for this event is attached to this newsletter email. PLEASE share!

Revealed: US listed climate activist group as

'extremists' alongside mass killers

Pipes for the proposed Dakota Access oil pipeline, that would traverse North and

South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. Photograph: Nati Harnik/AP

[Excerpt:]

Foster said even though the action involved a high level of legal risk, it was a small price to pay in light of the cascading impacts of climate change.

“The only way to force society to change fast enough is to refuse to participate and fill the jails,” Foster said.

Both he and Jessup were convicted on felony conspiracy charges and Foster spent six months in jail. During closing arguments the prosecutor compared Foster to the Unabomber and the 9/11 hijackers. He is now on probation and barred from engaging in direct action protest for another two years.

In the more than three years since the action , several states have passed legislation making it a crime to trespass on property containing critical infrastructure.The Trump administration has advocated for stiffer penalties against activists who engage in non-violent direct action targeting fossil fuel infrastructure.

Click on the image above to read the full article in 'The Guardian'.

The Hidden Inefficiencies and Environmental

Costs of Fracking in Ohio