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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Federal Intervention into Ohio’s Failure to Comply with Regulation Demanded
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 will...
Ohio Department of Natural Resources Public Records Request Results: 23 Toxic Waste Facilities
This is ODNR's response to our public request regarding the frack waste processing permitted before any regulations were in place. 4K Martins Ferry Facility ODNR Application Chief's Orders Belden Brick Facility ODNR Application Chief's Orders Cowgill...
Previous Appeal to Governor Kasich
FWAP Builds the Record to Show Legislative and Regulatory Inaction Despite Evidence of Dangers Dear Governor Kasich: We are writing as representatives of a rapidly expanding volunteer coalition of concerned citizens, organizations and professionals. We would like to...
Fire and Explosion Were Bad Enough – Fish Kill Shows Toxic Water Contamination. People have a right to know – what went in the water?
[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...
Appeal to Ohio Inspector General to Investigate
Appeal to Ohio Inspector General to Investigate: Need for Better Regulation and Oversight Not Investigated; Public Health and Property Put at Increasing Risk To Whom It May Concern: We would like to document a complaint regarding the policies and procedures followed...
FWAP Makes Appeal to Conservancy Court
Lea Harper, Managing Director of FreshWater Accountability Project, addressed the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District's Annual Meeting of the Conservancy Court, the overseeing body of the conservancy, in another attempt to convince the district that they should...
State Attorney General Alerted to Illegal Orders by ODNR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 3, 2014 – The FreshWater Accountability Project (FWAP), a grassroots non-profit water protection organization, today demanded that the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) cancel the temporary authorizations issued for at least 23...
Toxic Waste Sites Enter Ohio Communities Without Oversight
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 issued...
Property Owners Organizing Against Conservancy District
April 21, 2014 — The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) Board Meeting held last Friday, April 18, 2014, provided another stunning example of how the conservancy district is allowed to tax property owners in the district without accountability to respond...
— USEPA Asked to Intervene in ODNR Permitting
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...
Updated Numbers Show Water Destruction From Fracking Increasing
Ted Auch has responded to FWAP's questions regarding more details from his previous study. Added recycled and freshwater trend as well. But you should basically disregard the early 16% recycled water average as it is an average of very few data and really industry is...
Toxic Tours
Here's our videos from the last Toxic Tours!