ohiofracktion: to save the land and people

From the campaign to Save the Riverdale Mobile Home Park.  Come join the encampment!

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For Immediate Release: June 2, 2012
Contact: savermhc@gmail.com; Alex Lotorto: 570-269-9589, alotorto@gmail.com; Deb Eck (Resident): 570-772-3335; Kelly Finan: 570-877-2417, Kelly@kellyfinan.com

“Help Us Keep the River in Riverdale”: International Day of Solidarity with the Riverdale Community on Monday, June 4

Riverdale residents and supporters are calling for an international day of solidarity action in support of the Riverdale community this Monday, June 4.  As relocation resister Deb Eck has put it, you are invited to come down and “help us keep the River in Riverdale.” Continue reading →

From the campaign to Save the Riverdale Mobile Home Park.  Come join the encampment!

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For Immediate Release: June 1, 2012
Contact: saveriverdale@gmail.com; Alex Lotorto: 570-269-9589, alotorto@gmail.com; Deb Eck (Resident): 570-772-3335; Kelly Finan: 570-877-2417, Kelly@kellyfinan.com

Riverdale Residents Blockade Aqua America Construction Road

Piatt Township, PA – Riverdale residents and supporters have blockaded access to a mobile home community that is facing imminent displacement at the hands of Aqua America, a major water withdrawal company that supplies natural gas drillers in the Marcellus Shale region. Continue reading →

For Immediate Release: May 31, 2012
Contact: Ohio Fracktion: (216) 586-4890, ohiofracktion@gmail.com; Susie Beirsdorfer/Frackfree Mahoning: (234) 201-0402, frackfreemahoning@gmail.com

Brookfield, Ohio — Two Trumbull County residents were arrested Thursday afternoon outside the Ohio Shale Forum, another closed-to-the-public meeting on fracking attended by Ohio Governor Kasich, officials, legislators, and gas drilling representatives in Brookfield, Ohio at the Yankee Lake Ballroom. Continue reading →

Reposted from our friends at Occupy Well Street:

Riverdale residents Kevin June, Deb Eck, and her twins Amanda and Chevelle pay a visit to Aqua America CEO, Nick DeBenedictis’ mansion to protest the loss of their mobile home community.

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MEDIA ADVISORY – For Immediate Release
May 29, 2012

Hands Across Riverdale
Jersey Shore, PA

WHAT: A vigil commemorating Riverdale Mobile Home Park and showing support for residents who are about to be evicted from their homes by Aqua America.

WHEN: Thursday, May 31, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm & Friday 6:30 am – 5:00 pm

WHERE: Riverdale Mobile Home Park, 7 Riverdale Lane, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 Continue reading →

For months, residents have pushed the ODNR to test the brine being disposed of in our communities and parks. Despite innumerable requests, the ODNR has apparently concluded that the best way to protect their paychecks is to continue to accept 20 cents for every barrel of brine shipped in from out of state, and 5 cents from each produced in Ohio, without testing one single barrel of it. Clearly, if they were to publish the same levels of toxic contamination that have been found in “brine” tested in West Virginia, they fear that Ohioans would rally against the hundreds of millions of gallons of toxic waste now being brought in to Ohio for disposal.

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Elisa Young, featured in this news story, has requested that you write to ODNR Chief Rick Simmers (Rick.Simmers@dnr.state.oh.us) and Director James Zehringer (James.Zehringer@dnr.state.oh.us), and demand that they take the responsibility to exercise their authority under Section 1509.06 of the Ohio Revised Code and test the brine so Ohioans KNOW what’s in it.

Although we must continue to urge our failed regulatory bodies to protect the residents of Ohio, it is equally important that we take actions ourselves. Friends of Ohio Fracktion recently delivered a brine sample to an independent lab for chemical analysis. The lab has so far not delivered results, but we expect they are soon to come. Clearly, a single test is inadequate to determine the full contents of all “brine” disposed of in Ohio, so we urge all residents to investigate potential sites where brine may be collected for further testing. And if you would like to support Ohio Fracktion’s long term goal to continue testing “brine,” you can donate here.

Reposted from our friends at shadbush collective.

Contact: Ben Fiorillo – 412-482-0041, bfiorillo@gmail.com or Diane Sipe – 724-272-4539, sipediane5@gmail.com

Marcellus Outreach Butler and their allies occupy office of Act 13 sponsor Brian Ellis, retrieve water for families affected by fracking

Lyndora, PA – On Monday morning about 20 members of Marcellus Outreach Butler and their allies entered the office of state representative Brian Ellis (11^th district) to call attention to the dangers created by Act 13 and demand justice for the ten families in Ellis’ district whose water has been contaminated by fracking operations. Clad in haz-mat jumpsuits and carrying jars of contaminated water from households in Connequenessing Township, the protesters demanded to know why, despite evidence of water contamination and air pollution in his own district, Representative Ellis sponsored Act 13, which takes away local authority to zone natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania http://flic.kr/s/aHsjzwybgb.  Continue reading →

May 19, 2012
Contact: Annie Lukins, Jonathan Sidney, Ohio Fracktion, (206) 708-4872, ohiofracktion@gmail.com

Concerned residents hold church service at Vienna injection well

Vienna Township — About 20 residents of Trumbull County and surrounding areas gathered in prayer Saturday at a newly operating fracking wastewater injection well in Vienna Township.

According to event organizers from Ohio Fracktion, the service was designed “to pay respects to those who have died of cancer, who are experiencing neurological damage, who have chronic lesions on their skin, who have lost the ability to have children, and whose water has been poisoned by drilling chemicals or are forced to breathe the toxic airborne byproducts of hydrofracking.” This gathering was held in solidarity with a global Day of Direct Action Against Extraction, and one of a series of events building momentum for the largest action against fracking in the country’s history, scheduled for June 17th in Columbus.

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