RECENT NEWS
Shale Drilling Destroys Regional Water Resources
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Projections Show Entire Watershed to be Damaged by Fracking (Grand Rapids, OH - September 26, 2014) Ohioans are beginning to realize that unconventional shale drilling uses a great deal of water, permanently ruining it for other uses. But...
Information Meeting Sponsored by FWAP so Property Owners Can Protect Themselves
Dear Tappan and Seneca Lake Neighbors and Friends, By now you have probably heard that yet another reservoir in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) will be leased for fracking. Tappan Lake is next on the chopping block as the MWCD continues to plunder...
ODNR Records Request Results – Enviro Tank Clean Explosion – Belpre, Ohio
ODNR’s response to our records request regarding the explosion at Enviro Clean in Belpre, Ohio
Behind the Rhetoric of the Toledo Water Crisis
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.”...
The MWCD must stop leasing our precious reservoirs to be fracked and stop selling our water to be destroyed.
Better Vision
A Better Vision for the Valley was an inspirational conference organized by FreshWater Accountability Project and attended by many residents from the Ohio Valley, as well as representatives from numerous environmental groups.
Fracking Violates Human Rights
FWAP provides testimony to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, a respected international human-rights court, the Rome-based Tribunal, began a week-long hearing on the impacts of fracking and climate change on human and Earth rights.
Letter to Gov. DeWine
Click here to view the letter we sent to Governor DeWine to cease permitting until regulatory deficiencies are reviewed. You may use our letter as reference when writing to your elected officials to express your concerns.
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