Aug 9, 2020 by Tish O’Dell Tish O’Dell is the Ohio Community Organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Tish works in multiple states and was recently featured in national and international press for her work with Toledo, Ohio residents and their passage of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. She has worked on over 40 laws and county charters in Ohio. Of these, 12 have been put to vote and six have passed. She can be contacted at Tish@celdf.org. In Columbus, Ohio officials have quietly allowed direct democracy…
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Nature Scores a Big Win Against Fracking in a Small Pennsylvania Town
After a seven-year battle, Grant Township fought off a permit for an injection well. “Fights like ours should mushroom all around Pennsylvania,” says town supervisor As published in Rolling Stone Magazine, April 1st, 2020Author: Justin Nobel An unlikely crew of environmentalists who took on the powerful Pennsylvania fracking industry in a David vs. Goliath battle to keep an injection well out of their community have notched an important victory in their fight. Using a novel strategy — seeking legal rights for nature itself — the rural western Pennsylvania community of…
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Rolling Stone: 'America's Radioactive Secret'
Alot of people in Ohio have been waiting for this story to become public! Oil and gas brines that are waste products of wells are hundreds of times more radioactive than has been previously known to the public. It is time to ban the use of these materials anywhere on the surface environment. Click HERE to read the full story in Rolling Stone Magazine. Featured image: Brine trucks at injection well in Cambridge, Ohio. George Etheridge for Rolling Stone.
Ohio Environmental Council PRESS RELEASE
Ohio Environmental Council retracts statement that frack brine is safe.
Theodore Decker: Pipeline protection bill stomps on civil rights
The wording of SB 33 is as murky as that gray sludge the pipeline companies spilled all over the landscape back when they were assembling their lines with all the care of a sugar-addled toddler cramming and jamming his way through a bucket of giant Legos.
Rights of Nature - Episode 2
The Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) made history when 61 percent of Toledo, Ohio, voters approved the groundbreaking law to establish legally enforceable rights for the 11th largest lake on Earth.
The Underlying Politics and Unconventional Well Fundamentals of an Appalachian Storage Hub
[Excerpt:] With all of the discussion and legislation focused on energy and national security, many don’t realize the output of the ASH would be the production of petroleum-based products: mainly plastic, but also fertlizers, paints, resins, and other chemical products. Not coincidentally, Republican Ohio State Representatives George Lang and Don Jones just introduced House Bill 242, and attempt to support the plastic industry by “prohibit[ing] the imposition of a tax or fee on containers, and apply existing anti-littering law to those containers.” Click HERE to read full article at FracTracker.com
CELDF: Ohio Legislature Bans Rights of Nature Enforcement
Click HERE to read the CELDF press release
ComFest 2019 - OHCRN rocks!
Watch the ‘Wise Guys of Profit City’ at the ComFest 2019 Solar Tent. Watch Tish O’Dell speak on community rights/rights-of-nature at the ComFest 2019 Solar Tent