by FreshWater | Aug 7, 2014 | Blog, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Ohio Legislators, Waste, Water Withdrawal
After over 400,000 people were without safe drinking water for over two days in one of Ohio’s largest cities, did anyone feel any better after Governor Kasich’s statement during his obligatory visit to Toledo: “What’s more important than water? Water’s about life.”... by FreshWater | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Ohio Legislators, Press Releases, Waste
Dear Governor Kasich: FreshWater Accountability Ohio is a small grassroots organization, and you have heard from us before. We are writing once again to urgently request your attention and intervention to protect Ohioans from environmental harm and adverse public... 
by FreshWater | Jul 30, 2014 | Blog, Federal Agencies, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Waste
Fresh Water Accountability Project Joins Food & Water Watch, along with many others, to oppose the barging of frackwaste on the Ohio River Note: Original blog post from Food & Water Watch. The public comment period on this has already ended. By Sydney Baldwin... 
by FreshWater | Jul 13, 2014 | Blog, Federal Agencies, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, Legislative & Regulatory Accountability, News & Blog, Ohio Legislators, Ohio Regulators, Press Releases, Waste
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Toledo, OH) Last Friday, July 11, a certified letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (– USEPA) was sent outlining Ohio’s insufficient regulation of radioactive oil and gas waste and the imminent harm Ohio residents... 
by FreshWater | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog, Fracking, FWAP Blog, Issues, News & Blog
[Note: Reposted from FracTracker.org] A First-hand Look at the Recent Statoil Well Pad Fire By Evan Collins and Rachel Wadell, Summer Research Interns, Wheeling Jesuit University Hydraulic tubing had caught fire at Statoil’s Eisenbarth well pad, resulting in... 
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...