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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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Follow Up Meeting with Rep Hill’s Aide
On April 2 we met with Representative Brian Hill's aide, Brandon Ogden. Now we're following up regarding the discussion we had about Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. You may find the links useful at the end of this message Dear Brandon: Please share this with...
Follow Up Meeting with Seantor Balderson
On April 2, 2014, as part of Legislator Accountability Day, we met with Sen. Balderson. This was our follow up letter and information we provided him. At the bottom you will find some helpful resources. Dear Senator Balderson: Thank you for meeting with us briefly...
The Last Budget Bill
The Governor's Budget Bill magically converted radioactive waste from regulated to unregulated to make it cheap and easy to dispose in Ohio. We risk being poisoned by water soluble radium 226 and 228 that can be dumped, spilled or migrate into our drinking water...
Why is MWCD Ignoring Science?
Sometimes we find ourselves asking some tough questions: why are the people who are supposed to protect us and our assets ignoring the facts? FWAP commissioned a report from a well-known hydrogeologist from New York. No one in NY would allow fracking of a reservoir,...
Conservancy District Ordered To Release Public Records
The FreshWater Accountability Project (FWAP) prevailed in court last week in a lawsuit initiated under Ohio’s Open Records Act to obtain the addresses of those who lease residential and commercial property from the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD).
Grassroots Group Denounces Plans To Frack Piedmont Lake
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...
Report Shows We’re Fracking Our Freshwater Future
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...
Gov. Kasich Had Nothing To Say About Energy: Why?
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...
Water Sales Put Regional Supplies at Risk
GRAND RAPIDS, OH (December 12, 2013) A report just issued from FracTracker, a data gathering and dissemination organization, supports concerns that water profiteering from sales of millions of gallons by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) in SE Ohio...
Grassroots Group Opposes Plan to Dump Radioactive Frack 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 Oil...
Appeal to General Assembly with Resnikoff Report
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 (fracking) has unduly influenced our political processes, democratic values and environmental...
MWCD Appeal to General Assembly
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...