Protect our water - end fracking and dumping of frack waste in Ohio!
Governor Kasich and all Ohio Legislators
Ohio's water is a critical resource. Water is life, and it is an economic, social, and human health imperative to protect it.
No longer will frack waste be injected into our ground to pollute our clean water, our groundwater, our surface water.
No longer will frack gas pipelines be able to seize private property with eminent domain just to export our gas to overseas markets!
No longer will private property owners be forced to allow fracking next to them, making them sick and leaving them with worthless land, while the industry's places upon them the liability for clean up.
No longer will the industry be able to hide behind the false label of "proprietary" to experiment with toxic chemicals and biocides and use them without traceability and responsibility for the health and environmental impacts on the State of Ohio.
No longer will we be lied to and used by these interests.
No longer will the industry be able to take advantage of lax regulations or no regulations to make money at our expense!
NO LONGER!
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Governor Kasich and all Ohio Legislators
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These are our demands:
1. The highest priority of the state must be to protect fresh water supplies from any type of contamination. This is an economic, social and human health imperative. It is vital for Ohio to protect our water supplies to maintain our state as a desirable place to live, to raise a family, to do business, to grow food and to enjoy the outdoors.
2. The proximity and hydrogeological vicinity of all existing and old wells must be subject to testing.
3. Demands must be made of the oil and gas drilling industry for comprehensive remediation.
4. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which has been given authority, affirmed by the Ohio Supreme Court, to issue licenses for all oil and gas drilling, must be directed to cease the granting of all such permits. Article III, Section 5 of the Ohio Constitution makes it abundantly clear that the Governor has the power to order the ODNR to stop issuing permits for fracking.
5. Existing permits must be carefully scrutinized for compliance and cancelled for any infraction.
6. The governor must order a state-wide injection well ban, to protect public health and water supplies and push to enact Senator Michael Skindell’s Senate Bill 50.
7. The Ohio Highway Patrol must be directed to stop and inspect all vehicles which may be entering the state with fracked waste for purposes of disposing it in Ohio and turn them away as a threat to the health and safety of the people of this state. Ohio must use its full authority under the 10th amendment to protect the health and safety of the people.
8. Free public health screenings must be made readily available to all Ohio residents living in close proximity to fracking sites, or downstream from contamination.
9. The state must convene a panel of physicians, scientists and economists to examine the injury to Ohioans’ health, the environment, and the land as a result of hydro-fracking, and deep injection wells, to quantify the damage to persons and property, to provide such data to support a major class action law suit against offending companies, not those who leased their land, but those who recklessly drilled, and injected, putting the long-term health of communities at risk. Those who have poisoned Ohio’s people and their land must pay.
10. The state must use the power of eminent domain to acquire existing drilling sites, settle up royalties for locals, close the wells and levy a severance fee on the companies.
11. The state must convene a panel to create real economic opportunities for the people of "fracked Ohio,” especially southeast Ohio, so they will no longer be vulnerable to those who exploit their poverty with poisoned jobs.