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Thursday, 27 December 2012 |
Economic analysis reveals state forest timber sales unfairly compete with private sector and are a “loss leader” for taxpayers.
The Shawnee State Forest Economic Study, released today by the Buckeye Forest Council, the Ohio Environmental Council the Sierra Club Ohio Chapter, and Voices for the Forest details how the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Forestry (DOF) management of our state forests is a loss leader for Ohio taxpayers. The 192-page report analyzes DOF practices such as producing goods and services, like timber, that could be provided by the private sector, verses the economic benefits of managing state forests for intact forest ecosystems services, which would require comparatively little management.
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Monday, 01 October 2012 |
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Buckeye
Forest Council & 50 Environmental, Health & Safety Groups call for
Shale Drilling Moratorium
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.
The recent New York
Times investigative report on hydraulic fracturing was only the latest expose
detailing the harms to human health and water quality in Marcellus shale- rich
Pennsylvania. The Times series described incidents such as flowback waste water
from Marcellus shale natural gas wells in Pennsylvania that contaminated sewage
treatment plants and sources of drinking water with radioactive elements; and
pollution of the Monongahela River from drilling in late 2008 that was so
serious that residents of Pittsburgh were advised not to drink their tap water.
While hydraulic
fracturing has been used to develop oil and gas for years in Ohio’s shallow
wells, the volume of water and of chemicals that must be used to extract oil
and gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale formations, is unprecedented, and
the horizontal wells extending thousands of feet in several directions compound
the risks.
"Ohio is clearly
not ready to deal with the relatively new high volume hydraulic fracturing
techniques that must be used in exploiting tight shale formations in the
state,” explained Cheryl Johncox, Executive Director of Buckeye Forest Council.
"We have only to look to our neighbor to the east, Pennsylvania, to see
what can happen when this new technology is used in an environment without
adequate government regulation.”
Read the letter sent to the Ohio
Legislature: deepshaledrilling
Read
the NY Times article
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
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Tell Senators Brown and Voinovich To Vote Against Dirty Energy That Could Destroy Our Forests And Our Health. Buckeye Forest Council as part of the Anti-Biomass Incineration – Forest Protection Campaign delivered a letter to Congress signed by public health, social justice, and environmental organizations opposing any legislation that further subsidizes tree and trash burning dirty incinerators. WE NEED YOUR HELP!Add your voice to the campaign and send a letter to our U.S. Senators TODAY! Industry groups are pushing hard to get large-scale tree and garbage incineration into a mix as “renewable biomass” energy. Think that sounds too bad to be true? Ohio’s renewable energy standards already count trees as “renewable biomass.” Several Ohio utilities are seeking permits under these regulations to cut and burn millions of tree's for energy. Tell your U.S. Senators to resist industry pressure and keep garbage and trees out of any proposed federal definition of renewable biomass.
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