CCBOR May 11, 2020 Press Release |
City government is not complying with our requests to keep our initiative alive during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Click HERE to read our May 11, 2020 press release.
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Ohio communities federal lawsuit dismissed
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Supporters at August 24th, 2018 Franklin County Board of Elections after
CCBOR initiative was unanimously voted off the November 2018 ballot
The federal lawsuit that was filed by plaintiffs from seven Ohio communities, whose community bill of rights initiatives were kept off of their local ballots in 2018 by their respective county boards of elections, was dismissed on April 30th, 2020 - federal judge Pearson is an Obama appointee. Franklin County Board of Elections was one of the defendants, as two members of the Columbus Community Bill of Rights group, Bill Lyons and Greg Pace, were included in the group of plaintiffs who filed against the Franklin County BOE.
With the support of the Ohio Community Rights Network and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, the federal lawsuit was filed after the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the August 2018 BOE decision to disallow CCBOR's initiative to be put on the November 2018 Columbus ballot. The judicial rulings were all based on the unconstitutional law, HB 463, that was put into effect in 2016. This controversial Ohio law puts the decision of whether a citizen initiative's content is "sufficient" to be placed on the ballot, from the judicial branch into the hands of the boards of election. It over-extended the role of BOE's well beyond their job, which is to ensure that administrative structure of the language is sufficient, as well as the required number of valid signatures exist.
Plaintiffs are considering an appeal. Stay tuned!!
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Morrow County Injection Wells
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Baughman Unit near Marengo, OH. Accepted 1,095,491 barrels
(46,010,622) gallons of oil & gas waste before it was plugged recently
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ANATOMY OF A STATE AND CORPORATE ATTACK
ON A PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT
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Since its inception, a state-wide movement in Ohio has faced a state and corporate attack that amounts to concerted opposition from all branches of state government, corporate lobbies, private law firms, and both political parties. The entire repressive apparatus has revealed itself in 2019, for all to see.
Click HERE or on the image above or to read the full CELDF article.
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Developers Put a Plastics Plant in Ohio on Indefinite Hold, Citing the COVID-19 Pandemic
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A collaboration between Thailand’s PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea’s Daelim Industrial has been planning to construct a $5.7 billion plastics manufacturing plant at this site, as it was in February 2019, in Belmont County, Ohio. The project has been delayed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Credit: James Bruggers/InsideClimate News
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In March, financial analysts with IHS Markit, a global information and data company, and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), a nonprofit think tank, agreed the project was in trouble even before the coronavirus began to shrink the global economy. A global backlash against plastics, low prices and an oversupply of polyethylene, were all signs of troubling economic headwinds before Covid-19 sent world oil prices tumbling, disrupting the petrochemicals industry.
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full article in Inside Climate News.
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Pennsylvania Bet Its Future on Fracking, Plastics.
Was it All a Giant Scam?
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[Excerpt:]
 s Credit: Keith SraKocic/AP
Image above: October 2019 construction on the Shell Pennsylvania
Petrochemicals Complex located in Pottter Township, PA
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full article in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Think of the Biggest Secret of the Past Century
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The radioactive dirty secret of the oil industry
Click HERE or on the image above to watch the Facebook video of journalist Justin Nobel.
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GrassRootOhio - Every Friday
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Listen to Carolyn Harding interview guests about Ohio issues that affect all of us in the state.
The show appears on Columbus local radio station WGRN 94.1FM, every Friday at 5:00pm.
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