Brine trucks at an Injection well in Cambridge, OH.
George Etheredge for Rolling Stone
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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 7,600 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!
Collect signatures this Sunday, at the Family Missionary Baptist Church service and march
Sunday, February 2, 2020, 10:00am, march at 3:00pm.
Join us, the Columbus Community Bill of Rights, as we collect signatures for our initiative from parishioners before and after the 10am service.
Come join the march starting at the church at 3pm, and collect signatures!
Family Missionary Baptist Church
996 Oakwood Avenue
Columbus, OH 43206
For more upcoming opportunities to gather signatures, click HERE to visit our 'Event Details' page on our website
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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Lake Erie Bill of Rights
back in court on Tuesday
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More at stake than water with Lake Erie Bill of Rights court decision
[Excerpt:]
In what will likely be the final case filing before the hearing, Judge Zouhary laid out in writing eight legal questions he wants lawyers from both sides to be prepared to answer in court.
They include such questions as to whether they believe LEBOR could be applied to polluters located outside of Toledo; whether the state of Ohio meets the "injury-in-fact" requirement for standing; whether or not the case could proceed if the state has standing but Drewes Farm does not, and other legal matters.
One of his questions ofr attorneys poses this: "LEBOR became part of Toledo's charter through ballot initiative, not legislative enactment. Does this circumstance affect standing or the merits?"
Click HEREor on above image to read full article in 'The Blade'.
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Rolling Stone:
'America's Radioactive Secret'
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Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America
Click HERE or above to read the full story in Rolling Stone Magazine
Follow this tweet from Sandra Steingraber, scientist/author/mother/cancer survivor:
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Brine Fact Sheet attached
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The Buckeye Environmental Network “Brine Fact Sheet” is attached to this newsletter email. This is a compilation of results from ODNR-sanctioned testing of conventional oil and gas production brines in Ohio. This testing has been done over the past two years, and now shows how the levels of radionuclides, radium in particular, water-soluble, bone-seeking, and with a half-life of 1600 years, are hundreds of times higher than previously shown to the public. Road spreading of these brines on Ohio road must be banned, as they are highly-toxic and carcinogenic. As geologist/consultant Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice says, “they are the gift that keeps on giving”.
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Ohio Valley Residents Respond to
Oil & Gas Documentary
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[Excerpt:]
A panel discussion was held in the theater following the film.
Dr. Randi Pokladnik, a local retired environmental scientist/research chemist spoke about the impacts that plastics - especially single-use plastics - and petrochemicals have on health, and the cracker plant's potential impact on the Ohio River.
Upon her introduction to the crowd, Pokladnik quickly noted how disappointing it was not to have one local politician in attendance.
Click on the image above to read the full article in 'The Intelligencer. Wheeling News-Register'.
Click HERE to listen to Dr. Randi Pokladnik and Dustin White on the WGRN radio show, GrassRootsOhio with Carolyn Harding, both working to raise awareness and build coalitions to fight the huge plastics petrochemical hub build-up along the Ohio River, euphemistically referred to as the #AppalachianStorageHub.
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Big Oil Wants to Dump More Wastewater into Rivers. What Could Go Wrong?
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Pennsylvania has seen unprecedented levels of extraction thanks to the Marcellus shale,
but it has few options to dispose of wastewater from fracking. Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images
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The Schweitzers' property is surrounded by highly-pressurized under ground injection wells that store wastewater from oil and gas drilling. After tests confirmed that the saltwater had a similar chemical profile to wastewater dumped in the area, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission shut down eight disposal wells and reduced pumping rates for several more in November. The agency, which regulates the oil and gas industry in the state, has also banned new wells in a 14,000-square-mile area near the Schweitzers' field.
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full article in 'The Grist'.
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Click on the image above to watch our video 'We're All Downstream'
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Remember, this is OUR
Participatory Representative Democracy
If we don't use it, we lose it
Toxic Radioactive Waste Doesn’t Belong Here
Protect our Home, our Families, our Rights!
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