BuckeyeForestCouncil.org http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org Sat, 25 May 2013 15:34:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org/images/M_images/rss.png http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org BuckeyeForestCouncil.org http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151 Benefit for Buckeye Forest Council (BFC) BFC Board Member and all around super woman, Donna Carver, is known far and wide for wearing high heels -- everywhere. Including when she is taking on Big Oil and Gas bullies and stomping through fields to photograph leaking toxic waste wells threatening to pollute Ohio's drinking water and harm her community. Donna will be climbing a tree, yes in high heels, to raise money to benefit BFC so we may continue our work to protect Ohio's native forests and their inhabitants. We address the broader threats to climate, ecological and human health from dirty energy. Please make a donation to help Donna reach her goal of $7,500 and be able to come down from her perch. http://gogetfunding.com/project/ruby-slippers-protecting-the-earth News - General Tue, 14 May 2013 12:40:37 +0100 http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=132&Itemid=54 Ohio Community Groups Join Growing Number Calling “Fracking Peace Deal” Bogus Columbus, Ohio- A growing movement of grassroots community groups in Ohio released a statement today, which accompanied a letter sent directly to the Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD), calling the “peace” reached by the Oil and Gas industry and environmental groups a complete fabrication. The letter, sent by hundreds of citizens and community groups, stated, “We are in fact quite insulted that you (CSSD), presume to speak for Ohio citizens and Ohio environmental organizations. To date we have not found even one organization in our state that had any knowledge of this agreement, even though you have been working on it for the past two years. If indeed you have been working or communicating with environmental organizations in Ohio, please provide us with the name(s) of these organizations.” athens_march_18_rally_press_release (images/stories/fracking/athens_march_18_rally_press_release.pdf) Youngstown Press Release 2013_m18_youngstown_press_release (images/stories/fracking/2013_m18_youngstown_press_release.pdf) Portage Co. Press Release press_release-portagesistercitiessuspendprimacyoverpermitting (images/stories/fracking/press_release-portagesistercitiessuspendprimacyoverpermitting.pdf) Fracking - Fracking Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129 BFC Supports Save our Shawnee Forest GOVERNOR KASICH'S OFFICE PRESENTED WITH THOUSANDS OF PETITIONS CALLING FOR END TO STATE CLEAR-CUTS Video link to NBC4 (http://www.nbc4i.com/video?autoStart=true topVideoCatNo=default clipId=8442348) Columbus, Ohio— On Wednesday, February 20th, local advocacy group Save Our Shawnee Forest (SOS) presented the Office of Governor John Kasich with more than 3,300 surveys calling for a stop to the state's clear cut logging of Shawnee State Forest. Shawnee has nearly 70,000 acres of the last, largest remnant of the imperiled temperate forest in public ownership. It's being seriously fragmented and degraded with logging activities. The state will never have another contiguous, native forest property as large. Save it now while we can, said SOS member Barbara Lund as the surveys were delivered to the governor's office. SAVE OUR SHAWNEE FOREST! (http://www.saveourshawneeforest.org/) News - General Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=52 Today – 13,000 sq./mi. Forest remaining in Ohio. 3 years – 11,127 sq./mi.Forest remaining in Ohio. 6 years – 9,151 sq./mi.Forest remaining in Ohio. 9 years – 7,065 sq./mi.Forest remaining in Ohio. 12 years – 4,866 sq./mi.Forest Remaining in Ohio. 15 years – 2,545 sq./mi.Forest Remaining in Ohio. 18 years – 98 sq./mi.Forest Remaining in Ohio. 19 years – 0 sq./mi.Forest Remaining in Ohio. 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. Biomass Project - Biomass Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.buckeyeforestcouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=54 Green Groups Call on Wayne National Forest to Study Fracking Before Leasing Eight Ohio and national environmental organizations submitted a position letter regarding high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing (HVHHF), or “fracking,” in the Wayne National Forest to Forest Supervisor Anne Carey yesterday, June 4, 2012. Read the Letter Here. (https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7zrAtQjLhBGYTdQRVlrV2xmWjQ) Read the Press Release Here. (index.php?option=com_content task=blogcategory id=20 Itemid=34) Fracking - Fracking Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:00:00 +0100