fracking

Bob Fitrakis talks with Bill Lyons, President of the Ohio Community Rights Network, about the practice of taking radioactive and toxic brine from oil and gas extraction and spreading it on our roads to melt the ice.

Bob interviews Carolyn and Bill about the Columbus Community Bill of Rights petitioning campaign for citizen's rights to clean air, soil and water.

Bob interviews Sandy Bolzenius, Bill Lyons and Charlotte Owens about the Columbus Community Bill of Rights that will protect us from fracking pollution

Interview with Progress Ohio executive director Sandy Theiss about voter supression in Ohio and also the general contentiousness of the 2016 Federal election.
Audio from a picket at Republican senator Rob Portman's offices regarding proposed fracking leases in the Wayne National Forest and some audio clips about the standoff at Standing Rock.

Hard to believe it's been 4 years since I attended, and reported on an "open house" by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources regarding proposed oil and gas ("fracking") leases in the Wayne National Forest. Plans to auction thnose leases are now being fast-tracked, but a coalition of environmental groups is gearing up to fight it. Recently the Ohio Revolution, the local affiliate of Bernie Sanders' national group, "Our Revolution" held a strategy session in Columbus to help coordinate that campaign. Audio featured in this show from that meeting features representatives from the Ohio Environmental Council, The Buckeye Forest Council, Athens County Fracking Action Network, and the Ohio Sierra Club.

Bob interviews Greg Pace about the Columbus Community Bill of Rights and Ohio anti-fracking efforts

eologist Julie Rice-Weatherington's presentation at a day-long conference on the consequences of Fracking at the Ohio statehouse.

Bob talks with Tom Linzy of CELDF and Tish O'Dell who ran the campaign for a community bill of rights in Broadview Heights, Ohio, about the legal aspects of our municipal governments and how the fracking companies have authority over the people in the neighborhoods -- and how a movement to pass an Ohio Bill of Rights could stop it.

Interview with Allison Auciello ofFood and Water Watch at a protest against fracking in Columbus, audio from an early Ferguson protest attacked by police,and audio from a press conference in Dayton with the family of John Crawford

Bob talks with Carolyn Harding, organizer for the Community Bill of Rights, the effort to provide rights for clean air, water, soil, and against toxins in the environment