OHIO GOVERNOR SHOULD PLACE A MORATORIUM ON OIL AND GAS PERMITTING IN THE STATE UNTIL SERIOUS REGULATORY DEFICIENCES ARE RESOLVED
(COLUMBUS, OH) A letter by Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services of Akron, Ohio written on...
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Category: Fracking
We Won Water Protections for the Mahoning River
via Vindy.com Settlement with Patriot Water might be end of gas and oil wastewater treatment in...
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Freshwater Accountability Project Strongly Advocates for Ohio River Protection
The Ohio River is already the most polluted inland waterway in the United States. If the Ohio...
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FreshWater Accountability Project Rejects Toxic Brine Spreading
Ohio groups and concerned citizens are calling for Ohio Governor John Kasich to use his executive...
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FreshWater Accountability Project Submits Testimony to Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights
In the face of the many Human Rights abuses by the fracking industry, the FreshWater...
Read MoreFracking Industry Destroys Precious FreshWater at Alarming Rates
Our colleagues at Fractracker took the liberty of calculating lateral length for all laterals prior to the Outlaw and Walleye laterals coming online and the average was pretty well distributed but with a mean of 7,452. However,...
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Ohio Waste Treatment Facilities Charged with Clean Water Act Violations
(Akron, OH) Yesterday the centralized waste treatment plant owned and operated by Patriot Water...
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FreshWater Accountability Project and Others Ask Army Corps to Revoke Blanket Permit for Rover Pipeline
Request comes one week after opponents filed a motion with FERC to halt construction of the...
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FWAP Serves 60-Day Notice of Intent to Sue Patriot Energy, Alleging Repeated Violations of Clean Water Act
(Grand Rapids, OH) FreshWater Accountability Project (FWAP) filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue Patriot Energy Partners of Lisbon, Ohio, for repeated violations of permitted discharges under the federal Clean Water Act.
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Rover Pipeline Opposition Demands FERC Inquiry Into Bait-and-Switch Compressor Engine Decision
The Sierra Club and Freshwater Accountability Project, parties to the E.T. Rover gas mega-pipeline...
Read MoreFWAP Travels to DC to Testify at People’s Hearing
On December 2, 2016, Lea Harper, Managing Director of FreshWater Accountability Project, along with other Ohioans traveled to Washington DC to testify against the abuses of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The...
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FreshWater Accountability Project & Community Groups File Protest Letter to Protect Ohio’s Only National Forest from Oil and Gas Development
On November 14, 2016, FreshWater Accountability Project and 26 other organizations filed a protest letter to oppose the opening of the Wayne National Forest to oil and gas development. The letter protests the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) proposed December 13, 2016, oil and gas lease sale of 33 parcels of publicly owned lands.
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