Issues
At the Fresh Water Accountability Project (FWAP), we take interest in issues threatening our freshwater resources. The issues include, but are not limited to, drilling operations, frack waste transportation, oil and gas pipelines, landfills (old, new, and proposed), and more. We cannot drink money. It is critical that we protect our freshwater resources for future generations.
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Our Water is Being Destroyed: the fracking industry will cost the taxpayers.
We need YOU to do something. People can no longer look the other way to what is happening to our precious freshwater. We need your action and have provided information here you need to know because there are immediate actions that need to be taken before it's too...
Press Conference Held May 31 Outside Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District’s Annual Conservancy Court
FreshWater Accountability Project’s members and advocates were once again refused the opportunity to testify to the annual Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District’s (MWCD’s) Conservancy Court hearing at the Tuscarawas County Courthouse in New Philadelphia on May 31...
BG HOMEOWNERS FILE LAWSUIT DUE TO ROOFTOP SOLAR PENALTY
(Bowling Green, OH) Today a lawsuit was filed in the Sixth District Court of Appeals due to a solar penalty instituted by Bowling Green Municipal Utilities.
Letter from Santa Sent to Naughty Ohio Legislators
30 Letters Sent to Those Who Amended HB507 to call Natural Gas Green and Force the Fracking of State Lands. In the 2022 lame duck session, the Ohio legislature amended House Bill 507 entitled, “Revise number of poultry chicks that may be sold in lots,” to force the...
FreshWater is Instrumental to Obtain Large US EPA Air Monitoring Grant
For two years, FreshWater Accountability Project has been working through the American Geophysical Union's Thriving Earth Exchange to use low-cost monitors in the mid-Ohio River Valley to determine the actual levels of harmful contaminants. Through new technology...
FRESHWATER SUPPORTS COMMUNITIES THROUGH SCIENCE
Through an ongoing project with the American Geophysical Union's Thriving Earth Exchange (TEX) program, FreshWater and the TEX team were able to publish a peer-reviewed study entitled, "Community-based participatory research for low-cost air pollution monitoring in...
TRI-STATE ALLIANCE PETITIONS TO STOP BARGING OF FRACK WASTE USACE Barge Permit Legal Challenge Continues
Contact: Lea Harper, Managing Director, (419) 450-7042, wewantcleanwater@gmail.com John A. Heer, Esq. Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services, (234) 255-5627, jheer@fairshake-els.orgGrand Rapids, OH) FreshWater Accountability Project of Ohio has been working for years...
Public Records Request
FreshWater Accountability Project has continually interacted with the regulatory agencies in Ohio, often requesting public records, to determine how well the fracking industry is monitored and held accountable for its harms and to ask the regulators' involvement to be...
Open Letter to Ohio Health Dept. Requesting Urgent Attention
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Columbus Area Office 200 North High Street, Room 620 Columbus, OH 43215 February 9, 2021 To Whom It May Concern, As concerned residents, former industry workers, scientists, journalists, and researchers who have...
Community Science Success!
Thanks to the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies for funding a Community Science project for the Appalachian Petrochemical Protection, FreshWater Accountability Project made great progress over the last year to purchase and install low-cost air monitoring...
FreshWater Joins Forces to Oppose Mountaineer Natural Gas Liquids Storage Caverns on Ohio River
Concerned Ohio River Residents P.O. Box 135 Bridgeport, OH 43912FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jill Hunkler, CORR Advocate, (740) 238-1256, jahhunkler@gmail.com Megan Hunter, Attorney, (312) 800-8331,mhunter@earthjustice.orgGroups Challenge Deficient Applications to...
Army Corps Permits for Barge Docks to Bring Oil and Gas Waste to Ohio Challenged
(Akron, OH) Last week, two complaints challenging the US Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Section 10 Permits for barge unloading docks on the Ohio River to service frack waste processing and disposal facilities were challenged by Fair Shake Environmental Legal...