Bill Lyons interviewed by CBS local TV in Pittsburgh on 10/4/2019,
following court hearing in support of Grant Township
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... for Columbus Community Bill of Rights!
Some opportunities this week and weekend:
Saturday, 10/12/19, from 1-5. Linden Community Art Day and Festival
Linden Community Arts Festival is a free single day community arts festival event being held in Ama Vera’s Garden at the corner of Cleveland and Myrtle Ave on Saturday October 12, 2019 from 1pm to 7pm.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Central Ohio Community Action Night & Cons. Committee Meeting. Join us to get updates on local environmental issues, take simple actions to support Ohio's transition to a renewable energy future, and learn about upcoming volunteer opportunities! Hosted by Beyond Coal, Sierra Club Central Ohio Group, and Sierra Club Ohio Chapter. Location: Columbus Public Library – Main, 95 S. Grant Ave., Columbus 43215. Facebook.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 6:00 PM. Otterbein University Debate Support Rally. Organized by Ohio for Bernie. Come out and hold signs, canvass and support Bernie Sanders at the next Democratic Debate in Westerville, Ohio. Though details are not worked out such as time and rallying locations, this event will happen. The event was created for everyone to plan accordingly, make signs and have conversations. Stay tuned! Location: Westerville Sports Complex. Westerville, Ohio. Facebook.
Tuesday, October 15, 2019, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM. Unions For All March and Rally at DNC Debate in Westerville. 4:00 PM Gather @ Alum Creek Park North. (Alum Park Dr. Westerville, OH 43081). 4:30 PM March to the Democratic Debate and Rally Outside. Organized by SEIU District 1199. Facebook.
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!
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Grant Township has their day in court
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Carloads of people from Ohio and Pennsylvania packed the courtroom on October 4th in support of Grant Township fighting a lawsuit brought on them by the PA DEP. Carolyn Harding, Bill Lyons, and Greg Pace attended from Columbus Community Bill of Rights.
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“We’re not saying home rule is an unfettered authority, the basis for this particular charter is the Pennsylvania Environmental Rights Amendment, which is enshrined in Article 1, which is the source of all the fundamental rights in the Constitution and cannot be limited by any other sections of the Constitution,” Hoffman said. “The Constitutional claims that Judge Leadbetter has already has allowed to proceed are that the charter is a valid enactment of the township authority under the Environmental Rights Amendment, and DEP is unconstitutionally applying the statues, the Oil and Gas Act and the Solid Waste Management Act, because they are failing in their duty to protect under the Environmental Rights amendment.”
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full article in the Indiana Gazette. |
Freep Heroes - Bill Lyons
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Bill Lyons was recently commended by the Columbus Free Press for his initiative in uncovering a hidden link between Ohio Chamber of Commerce and Ohio Rep. James Hoops, that resulted in a rushed and unorthodox presentation of a bill that makes it illegal in Ohio to consider nature or the environment to have legal standing, after Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
Click on image to read the Free Press article
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Violation of the Sacred: Episode 8
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For three years, residents of Lancaster County had opposed the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. Then the Williams gas company sent a brief letter to FERC asking that a decision be made seven weeks early. We all know how this story goes.
The decision was so premature that the commissioners themselves had to include a 100-page addendum of issues that had yet to be resolved.They were compelled by a moral imperative to use nonviolent civil disobedience to change this fatally broken system.
Click here or on the image above to watch the five-minute video produced by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
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An Ohio Family Suffers as Enforcement Stalls
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Jill Hunkler walks along through the meadow in front of her cottage, which she rarely visits anymore due to oil and gas production nearby. Corbin Hiar/E&E News
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Their cottage is less than a mile from Gulfport's Wesley well pad, one of 16 the Obama EPA accused of violating the Clean Air Act. The violations can cause lung-scarring smog as well as "eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches, loss of coordination, nausea and damage to liver, kidney and the central nervous system," the agency said at the time.
Three more allegedly faulty Gulfport pads are about a mile and half from Jill Hunkler's home, which experts say is too close for comfort.
Click HERE or on image above to read the full E&E News article.
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Theodore Decker: Pipeline protection bill
stomps on civil rights
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This photo shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction in 2016. The pipeline drew high-profile protests at the time that have since sparked some states to outlaw such demonstrations. [Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune]
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The wording of SB 33 is as murky as that gray sludge the pipeline companies spilled all over the landscape back when they were assembling their lines with all the care of a sugar-addled toddler cramming and jamming his way through a bucket of giant Legos.
SB 33 supporters and sponsor Sen. Frank Hoagland, a Republican from Mingo Junction, didn’t seem especially eager to clarify things when pressed by Schladen. Curiously, for instance, no one involved wanted to define “tampering.”
Click HERE or on image above to read the full Columbus Dispatch article.
Several activists testified at the Ohio House Public Utilities Committee hearing on SB 33 on 10-9-2019. You can watch the video of the testimonies on the Ohio Channel by clicking HERE or on the image above.
Timeline to watch specific testimonies on the video:
Anne Caruso (Cleveland) 1:38:05
Randy Cunningham 1:42:30
Sandy Bolzenius (Columbus) 1:54:30
Kathie Jones (Medina) 2:02:05
Jacie Jones (student) 2:07:30
Greg Pace (Columbus) 2:11:22
Nick Teti (Coshocton) 2:15:25
2:26:00 Marsha from Meigs County
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