Ohio

Dakota Pipeline Builder Rebuffed By Feds In Bid To Restart Work On Troubled Ohio Gas Project

May 30, 2017 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Gas, Ohio, Pipelines

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - The builder of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline was told by federal regulators Thursday that it cannot resume construction on new sections of its other major project, the troubled Rover gas pipeline in Ohio, following a massive spill and a series of violations. In mid-April, Energy Transfer Partners spilled several million gallons of thick construction mud into some of Ohio's highest-quality wetlands, smothering vegetation and aquatic wildlife in an area that helps filter water between farmland and nearby waterways. New data reveals the amount of mud released may be more than double the initial estimate of about 2 million gallons. Fully restoring the wetlands could take decades, Ohio environmental officials have said. Officials at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered Energy Transfer Partners to halt construction there on May 10. At the time, FERC told the company it could continue work at the rest of its construction sites, but it could not start new operations. The order identified eight future work locations to be temporarily off limits.

Dakota Pipeline Builder Under Fire For Ohio Spill: 8 Violations In 7 Weeks

May 16, 2017 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Ohio, Oil Spill, Pipelines

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - U.S. regulators halted construction at new sites on an Ohio pipeline after several million gallons of drilling mud coated important state wetlands. Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline, is under fire from federal and state regulators after triggering a massive spill, and seven other violations, during the first seven weeks of construction of a major gas pipeline in Ohio. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Wednesday sent a letter to the Rover pipeline operator ordering it to not start construction on any new locations, as well as to stop construction at the site of the major wetlands spill and to hire an independent contractor to dig into what went wrong there. "Staff has serious concerns regarding the magnitude of the incident (which was several orders of magnitude greater than other documented [horizontal directional drilling] inadvertent returns for this project), its environmental impacts, the lack of clarity regarding the underlying reasons for its occurrence, and the possibility of future problems," federal regulators wrote. The phrase "inadvertent returns" is industry speak for a certain type of spill or release of construction material.

Private Prison In Ohio Makes Room For 2000 ICE Detainees

December 20, 2016 César, www.crimmigration.com Educate! Detention Centers, ICE, Immigration, Ohio, Private Prisons, Undocumented

By César for CrImmigration - Yesterday, CoreCivic, the new name for the Corrections Corporation of America, announced a new contract with ICE to imprison thousands of migrants in Ohio. CoreCivic/CCA will operate 2,016 beds for ICE at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center. CoreCivic/CCA already holds approximately 600 migrants at the same facility on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service. While people being held on behalf of ICE are generally awaiting immigration court hearings, those held on behalf of USMS are held pending federal criminal prosecution. This represents another instance in which ICE helps boost the bottom line for private prison corporations.

Ohio Residents Clash With State And County Gov In Fight To Ban Fracking

August 29, 2016 Simon Davis-Cohen, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Fracking, Ohio

By Simon Davis-Cohen for Desmog - For years, local Ohioans have been told by courts and elected officials that they have no control over fracking — “it is a matter of state law.” However, groups of determined residents are refusing to accept this argument, taking steps to establish local democratic control over what they see as vital societal questions of health, safety, and planetary survival. But not without resistance from their own governments.

Ohio Jury Says DuPont Acted With Malice By Poisoning People With C8

July 9, 2016 Staff, www.trofire.com Resist! Corporations, Food and Agriculture, Ohio

By Staff of TRO Fire - Earlier this week, the jury in Columbus Ohio rewarded a plaintiff 5.1 million dollars in a lawsuit against DuPont because the company had been releasing a chemical know as C8 into the Ohio river. Those affected by it, over 3500 different lawsuits, had developed certain types of cancers. In this particular case, the plaintiff had developed testicular cancer that was directly linked to DuPont’s C8 chemical. Mike Papantonio from Ring of Fire is the one who tried this case, along with an attorney named Gary Douglas, and a few other attorneys from Mike Papantonio’s law firm.

The REAL Silencing Of America’s Teachers!

February 22, 2016 Marla Kilfoyle, www.badassteachers.blogspot.com Educate! Education, Ohio, Teachers

By Marla Kilfoyle for The Badass Teachers Association - A new trend has appeared on the horizon – laws that silence teachers! In most states teachers are not allowed to engage in political activity while in school but what has appeared in the last few months, thanks to lawmakers in Ohio and Mississippi, is frightening. Two recent events disturbed me as an educator in America! Beware Teachers – silencing your voice is the just the tip of the iceberg. We have seen this growing trend that is attempting to silence teachers. Diane Ravitch reported as early as 2014 that New Mexico teachers had to sign a pledge not to say anything bad about the PARCC test. If a drug was bad for patients, would doctors be expected to sign a pledge not to say anything about that drug and its impact on his/her patients? The Silencing of America’s Teachers A scary trend in America! My colleagues - Will this wake us up?

Hunger Strike Update: Jason Robb Joins Strike & New Ways To Support

November 14, 2015 Staff, www.lucasvilleamnesty.org Resist! Ohio, Prison

By Staff of Lucasville Amnesty - For the past 4 days, Keith LaMar has been on hunger strike, protesting cruel restrictions that are arbitrarily being put in place by the new warden, Chris LaRose, at Ohio State Penitentiary. Keith was joined yesterday on hunger strike by fellow death row inmate, Jason Robb. What are their exact demands? 1. To allow the 5A long-termers (Keith LaMar, S.A. Hasan, Jason Robb and James Were) to keep all their books—consistently with other death row inmates in Ohio—tools which are crucial to their surviving the rigors of solitary confinement...

Activists Criticize Prosecutor In Charge Of Tamir Rice Reports

October 12, 2015 Kim Palmer, www.reuters.com Resist! Ohio, Police Brutrality

By Kim Palmer for Reuters - CLEVELAND, Oct 11 (Reuters) - An Ohio prosecutor handling the fatal shooting by police of a 12-year-old boy while he played with a replica pistol was criticized by activists on Sunday for releasing two reports that called the shooting "reasonable" before any grand jury decision on charges had been announced. "It looks as though the prosecutor is trying to taint the grand jury process as well as manipulate the judicial process overall," said Edward Little, one of the so-called Cleveland 8, a group of clergy, academics and activists who have called for the two police officers involved in the November 2014 playground shooting of Tamir Rice to be indicted.

Fracking Fight Heats Up In Ohio

August 24, 2015 Tish O'Dell, www.alternet.com Resist! Fracking, Law, Ohio, Oil & Gas

By Tish O'Dell in AlterNet - With the oil and gas industry already reveling in a recent Ohio Supreme Court decision stripping local control on fracking and other extraction activities away from communities, the Secretary of State has now handed the industry another victory, opening the door for fracking infrastructure projects to spread even faster across Ohio. In a decision issued August 13, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted blocked citizens from voting on Home Rule Charter initiatives which include provisions on fracking infrastructure development. In response to Husted’s decision, this week the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Secretary of State on behalf of community members in Athens, Medina and Fulton Counties seeking to restore the initiatives to the November ballot.

Local Ohio Officials Reclaim Right To Protect Citizens From Fracking

July 11, 2015 Candice Bernd, www.truth-out.org Resist! Environment, Fracking, Local, Ohio, Politics

By Candice Bernd in Truth Out - More than 100 local Ohio officials, including mayors, county commissioners and city councilors, have issued a letter to Governor John Kasich petitioning him for the right to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking) - or simply regulate drilling activities - within their own borders. The letter, organized by Environment America, states: "Fracking … imposes particular burdens on local communities, from strained services to ruined roads. As with other extractive booms, the arrival and expansion of fracking operations has been correlated with a wide range of social problems, including increases in domestic violence, drug use, traffic accidents and civil disturbances."

At Least Five Black Churches Destroyed By Fire In Past Week

June 29, 2015 Nick Visser, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ohio, Racial Justice, Racism, South Carolina

By Nick Visser in Huffington Post - At least five predominantly black churches have caught fire in the last week, including at least three that have been the subject of arson, the Southern Poverty Law Center reports. The string of blazes, which have occurred in four Southern states and Ohio, comes a week after nine people were gunned down at a Charleston, South Carolina, church. Dylann Roof, 21, has been charged with nine counts of homicide and possession of a firearm during commission of a violent crime. An arsonist set fire to the College Hills Seventh Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Monday. The following day, God’s Power Church of Christ in Macon, Georgia, was gutted by flames.

Tues April 14th, First Day Of Solidarity

April 13, 2015 Lucasville Amnesty, www.lucasvilleamnesty.org Resist! Human Rights, Hunger Strike, Mass Incarceration, Ohio

As the Ohio State Penitentiary hunger strike approaches 30 days, we will rally at the Ohio Dept of Rehabilitation and Correction in Columbus, and deliver a letter to top officials demanding justice. Over 50 prisoners have been illegally denied religious and recreation programming. We stand with them The rally coincides with the 22nd anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising, where inmates in Southern Ohio took over a prison in response to religious discrimination. f you can't make it to Columbus, please be creative and find a way to support the hunger strike on Tuesday. Organize a solidarity fast like students at the University of Toledo did on Friday, with an evening "break the fast" get together. Or a call-in lunch, gather with friends mid-day and call the prison, Central Office, and The CIIC (numbers and scripts below).

Bad News On Fracking: Ohio Court Says Local Bans Not Allowed

February 19, 2015 Bob Downing, www.ohio.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Law, Ohio

By a 4-3 vote, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that local drilling and zoning ordinances in Munroe Falls cannot be enforced because they conflict with the state law regulating oil and natural gas wells. The decision takes local control of drilling away from communities and supports the state as the continued main overseer of drilling. The court ruled that a Munroe Falls’ zoning ordinance and four local laws governing oil and gas drilling are not an appropriate exercise of the city’s home rule powers. Munroe Falls had obtained a court order stopping Beck Energy Corp. from drilling until the company had complied with local laws. Beck Energy, based in Ravenna Township, is “obviously very pleased and very happy with the decision,” company Vice President David Beck said.

Escalating Police Violence, ‘Beavercreek Is The New Ferguson’

December 29, 2014 Moreh B.D.K.; Jackson Marciana and E.J. Newsman, www.alternativemediasyndicate.com Resist! Beavercreek, Ohio, police brutality

The Beavercreek Police Department seems to have decided that Ohio should be “ground zero” in the national protests against police brutality. Not only did they gun down John Crawford III, back in August, just for holding a toy gun in a Walmart that sold the same gun, but they have been brutalizing anyone and everyone who dares so much as photograph them at recent protests. The recent escalation of violence by the controversial rogue department has proven what many protesters where saying today at the Fairfield Commons Mall, across the street from where John Crawford was killed: “Beavercreek is the new Ferguson!” The Beavercreek Police Department was out in force at today’s “die in” protest. Officers were even photographed stomping on a banner with Eric Garner’s name on it. Eric Garner was choked to death by New York City Police even though he was non-violent and unarmed.

Video Shows Police Shooting 21 Year Old Was Unjustified

August 20, 2014 Amanda Lee Myers, www.bigstory.ap.org Resist! Ohio, Police, Surveillance

An attorney for the family of a man fatally shot by police at a Wal-Mart store said Tuesday that surveillance video of the shooting shows it was unjustified, and the state's top lawman said a special grand jury will begin considering whether charges are appropriate against the officers. Attorney Michael Wright, who represents the family of 21-year-old John Crawford III, said in a statement that surveillance video of the shooting "showed that absolutely this young man ... was killed without justification or cause." Police in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek said they shot Crawford on Aug. 5 at the Wal-Mart after he waved an air rifle at customers and refused officers' orders to drop it. Wright said that the video shows that's "absolutely incorrect" and that Crawford was simply holding in one hand his cellphone and in the other hand an air rifle he had picked up off a store shelf and intended to buy. A Beavercreek police spokesman did not immediately respond to messages for comment Tuesday. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., based in Bentonville, Arkansas, provided material to law enforcement officials for their investigation.

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