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Friday, 28 January 2011 |
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Above Projection: Proposals from Ohio power plants would require the clear-cutting of all forests in Ohio in just over 15 years.
Coal fired power plants want to burn trees as “biomass” on a huge scale to make energy and call it “green and clean.” The Ohio Public Utilities Commission has approved this practice to receive renewable energy credits. Old coal power plants prefer not to use agricultural crops for fuel because they cause corrosion and high emissions. Chipped trees will be the fuel of choice to burn with coal in a practice called co-firing. |
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Tuesday, 08 November 2011 |
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Buckeye Forest Council & 50 Environmental, Health & Safety Groups call for Shale Drilling Moratorium
Click here for the latest updates and press coverage on this issue.
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COLUMBUS, OH – A consortium of dozens of environmental and health and safety groups, representing tens of thousands of members throughout Ohio, today presented a letter to each member of the Ohio General Assembly asking that body to immediately issue a moratorium ordering the Ohio Department of Natural resources (ODNR) to withhold approval of well permits involving high volume, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, exploration, or extraction until such time as these drilling practices are demonstrated to be safe for the environment and human health and are properly and effectively regulated.
Buckeye Forest Council and 23 Groups Oppose Drilling in State Parks and Nature Preserves
Buckeye Forest Council, and our partners send the Ohio General Assembly in opposition to legislation introduced to allow drilling for oil and gas on state lands. We believe that our state parks, state forests, state nature preserves, Lake Erie, and other state properties should be off limits to oil and gas extraction. Our state parks attract 50 million visitors each year, and the State of Ohio has a solemn duty to honor its promise to perpetually care for—and not exploit—its public lands, to forever protect the last remaining vestiges of our natural heritage for generations to come.
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Monday, 26 September 2011 |
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BLM Planning To
Lease Wayne National Forest For Oil And Gas Drilling
ATHENS,
OHIO – The Bureau of Land Management plans to lease 3,302 acres of the Wayne
National Forest for oil and gas development.
The BLM will be auctioning off five parcels of the Wayne on December 7,
2011 at their offices in Springfield, Virginia.
For those wishing to protest the sales, formal protest letters must be
faxed to the BLM office at (703) 440-1551. by close of business on Friday, October
7.
BLM
documents show that three of the five parcels, totaling 2623 acres, are in
Athens County along the Hocking River and closeby tributaries. Another, in
Perry County, is over 528 acres and one in Gallia County about 151 acres. The Athens County and Perry County parcels sit
atop the Utica shale, which the oil and gas industry is currently developing
using high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.”
Government
officials, local residents and community organizations are concerned that
fracking on the Wayne along the Hocking River could result in significant
environmental damage to the local water supplies as well as the forest itself. “The aquifer that feeds Athens, the Burr Oak
Water District, and the Le-Ax Water District appears to underlie several of the
parcels,” said Heather Cantino, Athens City resident and Board Chair of the Buckeye
Forest Council. “Local officials and residents
are concerned that water withdrawals of millions of gallons of water per well from
the Hocking and our aquifer and pollution from spills, leaks, and chemical
injections will threaten our drinking water. Our cities do not have the
resources to monitor or remediate radioactive and toxic pollution,” Cantino added.
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