WHAT: Columbus Community Bill of Rights organizational MEETING

WHEN: Monday, January 21st, 2019 at 7:00pm

WHERE: 88 W. Blake Avenue, Clintonville 43202

 

 

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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 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

 

 

 

 

 

Click HERE or on the image below to read the letter to the editor published in the Columbus Dispatch on December 26th.

 

 

 

[excerpts:]

Daniel Sheehan of the Lakota Law Project, which provided legal defense to Standing Rock protesters, likened modern cries of domestic terrorism to anti-communist rhetoric in U.S. history.  "Instead of communist, they now call you a terrorist, anybody who's opposing the capitalist system," says Sheehan.  "What you get is this thing called industrial terrorism, these statutes that say if you do anything which is a direct action to attempt to impede a corporation from being able to pursue its business and to make its profit, that is terrorism."

 

 

 

 

Click on image above or HERE to read the full article.

 

 

[excerpts:]

"Most people have no clue how much more damage is coming if it doesn't stop," Morgan says.  At a meeting, a gas company representative divulged that around 6,000 shale wells would be required to extract the desired natural gas in Belmont County alone.  "The industry doesn't want people to know about this," he says.

 

And what about jobs?  Plant operations, which are heavily automated, will create an estimated 350 to 1,200 permanent jobs.  For pipelines, the number of permanent jobs will likely be smaller.  The Brookings Institution found that the Dakota Acess Pipeline will provide only 40 full-time post-construction positions.

 

Meanwhile, the renewable energy industry already provides five times more jobs than coal, oil, and natural gas combined in the United states.

 

 

 

Click on image above or HERE to read the full article in Blue Ridge Outdoors.

 

 

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In the summer of 2015, Bowles accepted eight shipments of waste from Hoskins, who had contracts not only with Fairmont but also with a least eight other oil and gas wastewater companies, including six from Ohio.  Through a different broker, Bowles also accepted 36 loads of potentially radioactive waste from Ohio's Pressure Tech, Inc., described as "a dewatering facility that accepts various slurry from the oil and gas industry."  All of the manifests signed by Bowles describe the shipments along the lines of "Exploration and Production Waste Solids and Debris" or "Exploration and Production Soil and Filter Socks."

 

Avner Vengosh, professor of earth and ocean sciences at duke University, calls facilities like Fairmont "enrichment factories for the radioactive element."  In the past, Fairmont may have just disposed of its TENORM in a West Virginia landfill - but in 2015, the state began requiring radiation monitors for all of its solid waste landfills.  The new law made it harder for any "drill cuttings and drilling waste" above the state's radiation limit to be sneaked into landfills not equipped to handle it.

 

 

Click on image above or HERE to read the full article on NRDC's website.

 

 

 

 

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According to the report, natural gas campaign donations to politicians in states where fracking is taking off have risen by 231% in the last eight years.  But the industry is also hedging its bets in non-fracking states, as donations to politicians in those areas saw an increase in donations of 131%.

 

... "Like many industries under increasing scrutiny, the fracking industry has responded by ratcheting up campaign donations to help make new friends in Congress...As CREW's report shows, the fracking boom isn't just good for the industry, but also for congressional candidates in fracking districts."

Click on image above or HERE to read the full article on NRDC's website.