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 FERC regularly tramples people’s human, civil and property rights by allowing the unfettered expansion of the fossil fuel industry, even to the point of overbuild, without invoking its powers to demand rigorous scientific, environmental and economic review. Here’s the link to the agenda of the People’s Hearing sponsored by the Delaware Riverkeeper, and Lea’s testimony.
Click here to read more about the first National People’s Hearing on FERC by Ted Glick.