by FreshWater | Mar 29, 2014 | FWAP Blog, Muskingum Watershed, News & Blog, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Grassroots Group Denounces Plans To Frack Piedmont Lake Conservancy District to be Held Accountable for Damages March 27, 2014 — Despite years of protest along with scientific documentation to warn that reservoirs should not be leased for... 
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 | Letters, Muskingum Watershed, News & Blog
We are asking for your attention and involvement in a very serious matter confronting Ohioans at this time. As you may know, the unconventional shale drilling industry has unduly influenced our political processes, democratic values and environmental protections at... 
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...