Ohio Soil Recycling facility adjacent to Alum Creek in South Columbus.
In 2013, OH EPA authorized them to accept radioactive drill cuttings
 
We are in the home stretch ...
... but we need more help getting the signatures for Columbus Community Bill of Rights!
 
 All available people connected to the Columbus Community Bill of Rights are needed to collect signatures during the next 4 months!

Please ask friends to help!
 
Plan now to gather signatures at early voting and
on election day, Tuesday, March 17th.
 
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 Barley's Brewing Company!

Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice will briefly present on the radioactive threat in frack brines
 
You can sign up to help out during the election process
from our website.  Just click HERE to visit our 'Help Out' page where the links are to the volunteer sign-up sheets.
 
For more upcoming opportunities to gather signatures, click HERE to visit our 'Event Details' page on our website.
 
Contact Bill Lyons at wmlyons@gmail.com for petitions and tips!
 
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!
   
 
Join the webinar on radioactive fracking wastewater presented by Physicians for Social Responsibility
 
 
 
A chilling investigative article in the January 21 Rolling stone magazine has found that wastewater from many oil and gas wells is dangerously radioactive.  The local environment, nearby residents, and especially the oil and gas industry's own employees may be exposed to toxic levels of radiation - but most people are totally unaware.
 
Click HERE or on the above image to register for the PSR webinar with Justin Nobel, the reporter whose two-year investigation culminated in these explosive revelations.
        
 
'Lake Erie Bill of Rights' Heads into Federal Court
    
 
[Excerpt:]
Ahead of the court date, Toledoans for Safe Water (TSW) organized supporters of LEBOR and Rights of Nature to sign a public statement of support.  Over 900 (and counting) individuals and organizations have signed on, with messages of support coming from across the United States, and around the world, including Canada, Mexico, Chile, Romania, Australia, Sweden, Italy, France, and England.
 
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full article at Ohio Community Rights Network.
 
 
The bill to turn radioactive frack brine
into a commodity may be back
 
 
Ohio state representative Adam Holmes (R - dist. 97 - Muskingum & Guernsey Counties) is proposing a new bill to loosen restrictions on "recycling" frack brines.  We don't know yet if this means it will be a new form of previous bills that attempted to allow this radioactive liquid to be sold directly to the public.  Rep. Holmes distributed a memorandum to house members ahead of presentation of the bill.
 
You can read the bill by clicking HERE.
 
 
Please contact your state representative AND Rep. Holmes to tell them how "forever-toxic" these brines are.  You can send them the Brine Fact Sheet (here and attached to this email).  If you email, please send them the link to the Rolling Stone article as well:
 
 
 
 
Utilities Back Anti-Protest Bills in Ohio and Other States
 
 
[Excerpt:]
Public records by Documented, a corporate watchdog group, also show that the calendar for state senator Frank Hoagland, the primary sponsor of SB 33, included a meeting last April to discuss "critical infrastructure" with John Keaton, the director of state and regulatory affairs for Duke Energy in Ohio.
 
Lobbyists for fossil fuel interests also lobbied on the bill last quarter, including the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, American Petroleum Institute, BP America, ExxonMobil, Marathon Petroleum, the Ohio Coal Association, and Ohio Oil and Gas Association.  Others lobbying on the bill earlier last year included the Alliance for Energy Choice, Energy Transfer Partners, Enbridge, Murray Energy, and TransCanada.
 
 
Click HERE or on the image above to read the full article from Energy and Policy Institute.
 
Dispatch: Don't chase cracker-plant jobs
at cost of health, environment
 
 
 
[Excerpt:]
No pollution controls can mitigate the enormous impact a cracker plant, not to mention a built-out petrochemical hub, would have on climate change. One estimate holds that the cracker plant being built in Pennsylvania will essentially replace all the carbon reduction the city of Pittsburgh hopes to achieve by 2030.
 
Click on the image above to read the editorial in Columbus Dispatch.
 
 
JobsOhio puts $20 million toward possible petrochemical site

Click HERE to read the article in CantonRep.com
 
 
Please visit our new website pages
 
 
Visit our new page under 'Our Issues', about 'Radioactive Landfills'.
 
Our Blog section now includes a past CCBOR newsletter archive.
 
 
 
 
Click on the image above to watch our video 'We're All Downstream'
 
 
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Toxic Radioactive Waste Doesn’t Belong Here
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