by FreshWater | Mar 23, 2014 | Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, News & Blog, Water Withdrawal
The FreshWater Accountability Project (FWAP) focuses on frackings impacts on water supplies. When Ted Auch and Danny Berghoff of the FracTracker Alliance issued a report that estimates a whopping 5.8 billion gallons of freshwater used for fracking per year, it has us... by FreshWater | Feb 26, 2014 | Blog, Fracking, Groups, News & Blog, Resources
The Stark Summit Coalition released a statement on their website Tuesday, February 25, to point out that Ohio Governor John Kasich failed to discuss energy policy during his State of the State speech. The administration has spent the last three years praising the oil... 
by FreshWater | Feb 24, 2014 | Fracking, News & Blog, Press Releases, Waste
GRAND RAPIDS, Ohio — The Freshwater Accountability Project Ohio (FWAPOH), an organization of activists dedicated to water protection and opposed to oil and gas drilling via hydraulic fracturing (called “fracking”) filed a legal challenge with the Ohio Gas and... 
by FreshWater | Feb 24, 2014 | Fracking, Letters, News & Blog, Waste
By now, the majority of Ohioans know that injection wells cause earthquakes, and yet, the ODNR continues to permit new injection wells in known earthquake fault zones without adequate testing for seismic activity. The recent 3.5M earthquake on November 20, epicenter... by FreshWater | Feb 24, 2014 | Fracking, Letters, News & Blog, Waste
We assert that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is not reliable, responsible or accountable to hold primacy over the permitting of injection wells in the state. We have copied below a sample of our correspondence and the misinformation we receive when we... 
by FreshWater | Feb 14, 2014 | Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, Muskingum Watershed, Water Withdrawal
Co-founder of the FreshWater Accountability Project, Lea Harper, and her husband, Steven Jansto, are suing the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD), the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Antero Resources Appalachian, and Ohio Attorney General Mike...