Columbus Community Bill of Rights/
Columbus Community Rights Coalition
June 12th, 2023 Newsletter
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Above image: Cover page to Columbus Community Rights Coalition White Paper
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This is our first newsletter in almost two years.
We have been very busy since 2021, with our water testing project and our white paper that is being published on our website today. |
Our long-awaited white paper is now available
to the public
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Our white paper, 'The Risks to the Greater Columbus Water Supply from Oil & Gas Production', is now available to download and read. This report is the culmination of two years of our work, with special accolades to local geologist/consultant, Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice, who worked with us to offer her knowledge for much of the information on the paper.
READ our June 12th 2023 press release HERE.
You can access the report from our website by clicking HERE. |
Results of our ongoing water testing initiative
is almost here
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In 2021, Carolyn Harding reached out to Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX), which is a branch of American Geophysical Union (AGU) and obtained a grant with this national non-profit organization that pairs concerned citizen groups with established scientists to initiate citizen science projects.
Bill Lyons and Kathy McGlone, along with Carolyn Harding, made up the citizen science team from CCBOR. TEX connected the group with Megan Duffy, who earned her PhD in Oceanography from the University of Washington in early 2022, as our Project Manager.
CCBOR reached out to Dr. Chris Spiese, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Ohio Northern University, who designed the site locations for the water monitoring, and to Dr. John Stolz, Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Education and Professor of Environmental Microbiology, Duquesne University, who provided quarterly detailed analysis of water samples.
Bi-weekly data collection was performed by various members of CCBOR from August 2021 until August 2022. Karen L. Knee, associate professor in the Environmental Science department at American University in Washington, DC, advised our team and helped with data analysis and presentation.
The immediate goal of this water testing initiative is to motivate the need for long-term water quality monitoring by the City of Columbus near the injection wells. Ultimately, the goal is to ensure a ban on injection well permits, solid frack waste (drill cuttings) disposal in landfills within the watershed, and spreading oil and gas brine for dust and ice control. CCBOR is finalizing a report of their results which will be made public soon.
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Watch our recent interview on GrassRoots Ohio radio
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You can watch our recent Columbus Community Rights Coalition interview with Sandy Bolzenius, Bob Krasen, and Will Perkins, on the GrassRootsOhio radio show by clicking below:
Click HERE to listen to the interview on SoundCloud.
Click HERE to watch the interview on YouTube.
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Understanding the Ohio Special Election in August
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Vote NO on Aug. 8, and please commit to voting, as the goal of the Republicans in the legislature is to slide this one by the citizens! Early in-person voting starts July 11, and you can send in an application for a mail-in ballot, get the ballot, and vote by mail.
As admitted by Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose, the intent of the issue is to cause the defeat of the reproductive rights amendment in November, but its effect is even much worse: it will essentially destroy the ability of grassroots citizens to ever again get a constitutional amendment on the ballot, a right we have had since 1912.
The requirement that has gotten the most attention is quite undemocratic, raising the level for adoption of a constitutional amendment to 60%, and hence giving 40.1% the power to defeat the will of the majority. However, the biggest obstacle is for getting future amendments on the ballot, by requiring 5% signatures, not just in the current 44 counties, but in all 88 counties.
For a great review of the threat caused by this issue, click HERE to read David DeWitt’s article in the Ohio Capital Journal.
You can also read an article in Common Cause by clicking HERE. |
Success in Grant Township, PA in stopping injection well
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After a fight that took nearly a decade that included a lawsuit against the community from the State of Pennsylvania, the residents of Grant Township PA have won their battle to prevent an injection well from being commissioned in their small rural community.
You can read the CELDF press release by clicking HERE.
You can read an article from the local newspaper HERE.
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