by FreshWater | May 4, 2014 | Fracking, Issues, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Ohio Regulators, Press Releases, Waste
JOINT PRESS RELEASE: BUCKEYE FOREST COUNCIL & FRESHWATER ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: Toxic Waste Sites Enter Ohio Communities Without Oversight GRAND RAPIDS, Ohio — Ohio residents are now discovering that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) has... 
by FreshWater | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog, Federal Agencies, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Ohio Legislators, Ohio Regulators, Press Releases, Waste
Ohio to Become a Frack Waste Dumping Ground April 16, 2014 — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources is the sole regulator of the horizontal hydraulic fracturing (fracking) industry which includes the permitting of not only fracking itself, but the disposal of its... 
by FreshWater | Apr 12, 2014 | Fracking, Health, Issues, Resources, Studies, Waste
The Governor’s Budget Bill magically converted radioactive waste from regulated to unregulated to make it cheap and easy to dispose in Ohio. We risk being poisoned by water soluble radium 226 and 228 that can be dumped, spilled or migrate into our drinking water... 
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...