Our next organizational meeting:
WHAT: Columbus Community Bill of Rights organizational MEETING
WHEN: Monday, February 25th, 2019 at 7:00pm
WHERE: 88 W. Blake Avenue, Clintonville 43202
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Columbus Community Bill of Rights, with help from Simply Living, have produced a venue for Ed Fallon, of BoldIowa, to have a presentation and a book-signing in Columbus on Tuesday, April 2nd 2019.
Ed will also be available at the Book Loft of German Village on Tuesday, April 2nd, from 3pm to 5pm to autograph copies of his book, 'Marcher, Walker, Pilgrim'. This is located at 631 South Third Street (43206) in German Village.
Click the image below to read about Ed and his book, 'Marcher, Walker, Pilgrim'. This book chronicles a 3,100 mile march in 2014 from LA to Washington D.C. to bring attention to climate action.
Ed is a very active and vocal force in support of the water protectors from Standing Rock.
Click on the image above to visit Bold iowa and to read more
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Working to convince city council to pass our ordinance
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Columbus Community Bill of Rights has been working to persuade city council to enact our ordinance. On February 11th, three of us spoke before city council in an attempt to persuade them. We are visiting individual council members. City Attorney Zach Klein laid out for us that, since Franklin County Board of Elections did not honor the people of Columbus's constitutional right through their 12,000 valid signatures for placement of our ordinance on the November ballot, we have three paths to get our ordinance passed:
- create a new initiative and collect signatures
- city council creates and enacts an ordinance
- city council creates a charter amendment to place on the ballot
We will meet with Council President Shannon Hardin's office on Monday, 2/25/19, and will press him to move forward with his stated interest in ensuring that the city has a water monitoring program in place that warns of oil & gas waste contamination coming from our watershed. |
Statehouse reintroducing dangerous bills from 2018
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Two of the dangerous bills that did not make it to passage during the lame duck session in 2018 are being reintroduced:
SB 33: was 2018 SB 250 - "increased criminal penalties for civil disobedience against oil & gas infrastructure, this democracy-stifling ALEC template is titled 'Critical Infrastructure Protection Act'.
To be introduced shortly: was 2018 SB 165 - "brine as a commodity" - was passed in the house as HB393, however it is tabled in the Ohio Senate.
We must stop these bills from being enacted. You can read more on the Buckeye Environmental Network website under Resources and Issues.
PLEASE consider lobbying your Ohio legislators on Tuesday, March 19th, here in Columbus. JOIN US for the 'MEET YOUR LEGISLATORS DAY'. For more information and to RSVP, click HERE.
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Ohio "brine bill" in question as Aqua Salina
high radium levels come to light
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Will our Ohio state legislators heed to moral common sense and fail to vote for the 2019 version of the "brine-as-a-commodity" bill? Last year, citizens sent much testimony to the house and senate about the dangerous levels of radium-226 and other heavy metals in conventional oil & gas waste brines, including compelling evidence that traces at least two deaths to ingestion through dust in the air.
This year, more damning evidence has come to light that should convince legislators to put a halt to road usage of this unhealthy material. Since ODOT spread more than a million gallons on Ohio roads in 2018, this might be a pipe dream. We MUST, at minimum, halt the allowance of complete deregulation of this substance to be used at the level of retail consumers for household use.
See the attached letter from the Center for Health and Environmental Justice (CHEJ) science director to Teresa Mills.
New ODNR tests using a proper protocol on Aqua Salina, the product that has been sold in a limited market on hardware store shelves, showed that not only does this product off-the-shelf average 346 times the EPA drinking water limit for radium 226 & 228, but it exceeds the EPA environmental discharge limitation by 10 to 13 times!! More damning is that the process used to prepare the oil & gas brine for bottling actually concentrates the radium levels. This means that the product is, under Ohio rules, TENORM (Technically-Enhanced Naturally-Occurring Radioactive Material). It must be closely monitored and disposed of in radioactive disposal sites when above the drinking water limits.
The Ohio brine bill, as written last year, would restrict testing to maximum of 4 times a year, and would disallow any future and more stringent regulation on this material!
You get the picture, I hope. WE DON'T WANT ANY OF THIS MATERIAL TO BE USED IN COLUMBUS CITY LIMITS!!!
Recent Cincinnati TV coverage:
Columbus Free Press:
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Lake Erie Bill of Rights Headed to Feb. 26th Ballot
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WATCH FOR NEWS on what the result is in Toledo on Tuesday!!
The oil & gas industry are funding attack ads from the Ohio Farm Bureau.
Markie Miller, of Toledoans for Safe Water, speaking to the press
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A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry
Click on image above or HERE to read the full article in DeSmog Blog. |
Dimock driller attempts to throw victim in jail
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Ray Kemble od Dimock, Pennsylvania holds up a jug of what he identifies as his contaminated well water as he speaks at a demonstration opposed to hydraulic fracturing, outside a regional office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Monday, Aug. 12, 2013. Photo: Matt Rourke / AP
Gas Driller Seeking to Throw Man in Jail for Contempt
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Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. sued Dimock resdient Ray Kemble and his former lawyers in 2017, claiming they tried to extort the company through a frivolous federal lawsuit that recycled already-settled claims fo environmental contamination. Cabot also claims Kemble violated a 2012 settlement agreement by repeatedly "spouting lies" about the company in public.
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Toxic Radioactive Waste Doesn’t Belong Here
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