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…
Tag: Community Rights
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.
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
Letter: Protect our water from fracking waste
October 31, 2017 | By: Bill Lyons Columbus needs to protect one of its most precious resources — its water — from fracking waste. There are 13 injection wells of frack waste in our Upper Scioto Watershed Area with permits for more on the way. Each one of these wells has millions of gallons of radioactive waste containing Radium 226 with a half-life of 1,600 years along with carcinogens, neurotoxins, and hormone disruptors. For short-term profit of the oil and gas industry, we are taking a long-term risk for which…