The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District is drawing ire for its continued leasing of land for fracking.
Randi Pokladnik, an environmental scientist and member of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action, explains fracking comes with a host of air and water pollution risks, including the release of thousands of chemicals, which can end up in groundwater. The conservancy district argued revenues from leasing allow it to upgrade watershed facilities and campgrounds. Since 2011 Ohio has allowed companies to lease state land for oil and gas drilling. Earlier this year, Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 507 into law, which makes it easier to approve licenses for companies seeking to extract natural resources from state lands.
Omg, the fake MSM are at it again with their insationalized bullshit to push their fake 'the earth is dying ' scenarios. This mini MSM is a clown show.
This is green energy in Ohio.
Hell in Cambridge you can run a waste well company, cop a sweetheart deal with the neocons on wheeling avenue for toxic waste wells in the middle of a poor neighborhood with a promise of a 'new park' just inches away and never live up to it all for a sweet bribe to Mayor Orr!