Tag: ohio

  • Conservation Groups to Sue Over Wind Turbine Project in Key Bird Migration Corridor

    The Ohio National Guard facility at Camp Perry, near Port Clinton in northern Ohio, is the focus of possible legal action by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading national bird conservation organization, and Ohio’s Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO), which yesterday announced the intention to sue the Ohio National Guard in connection with violations of…

  • Fracking Pipeline Stirs Controversy in Bluegrass State

    By Natasha Khan The land agent first came knocking on Vivian and Dean House’s door in July. They sat on the patio of the retired couple’s 85-acre farm in this Central Kentucky town and chatted. The guy was friendly, the kind of guy Dean could talk to about fishing. He put the couple at ease…

  • Two Arrested Protesting Fracking Wastewater Injection Well

    Two Youngstown, OH community members were arrested today at a nonviolent protest and rally at a fracking wastewater injection well site in Niles, OH. The two protesters were arrested for blocking trucks from entering the well site while holding a “Fracking Hurts Communities” banner. More than 50 people from Ohio and Pennsylvania attended the rally. [caption id=”attachment_313230″…

  • Six-State Study Confirms Job Numbers Exaggerated by Fracking Industry

    Drilling in the six states that span the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations has produced far fewer new jobs than the industry and its supporters claim, according to a report released today by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative, a group of state-level research organizations tracking the impacts of shale drilling. [caption id="attachment_312918" align="alignnone" width="531"] The oil…

  • Fact Checking ALEC’s Attacks on Ohio’s Renewable Energy Standards

    Members of the Ohio Senate Public Utilities Committee heard testimony this week on two bills that would roll back Ohio’s renewable energy and energy efficiency standards. Backed by fossil-fuel funded …