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Ohio Environmental Council, July 9, 2015
Although our state parks are off the chopping block, the oil and gas industry now has its sights set on local parks. Fracking lobbyists are pushing for what may be the most brazen attempt yet to force fracking on public lands down our throats.
Under their scheme, local park departments would be stripped of the right to decide on their own whether to allow drilling.
Instead, local parks would be forcibly swept up into leasing agreements with nearby lands, whether the community likes it or not. We can’t let this happen. And through your support, we won’t let this happen.
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And our work doesn’t stop there. In the coming months we are agressively working to:
Please invest in this work. Given our recent victory to keep the industry’s greedy hands off of our state parks, they are scared of what we can do together. Let’s prove they have something to be scared about!