Sandra from Concerned Citizens of Medina County picked me up from Dorothy house, and we went to meet with Kathie Jones, Judith Cross and a newpaper reporter Loren Genson .
Concerned Citizens of Medina Country, is a group of people (around 40) that was organized to educate the public about the dangers of Slick Water High Volume Industrialized Hydraulic Fracturing and the threats to health, safety and property rights. They work under the umbrella of NEOGAP organization (Neogap.com). What else they do is to educate elected officials about fracking.
So each time they have the opportunity they are going to the townhall meetings, and have 5 to 10 minutes to talk about their concerns regarding shale gas(2 times per month as I remember).
Michael E. Kovack, County Auditor, has been responsive by having leased maps put together for the County, City and Townships. I got to see him today. (picture cu Michael). Some of the Township Trustees and City officials have also been attentive to the literature that has been presented, and many Trustees have passed Resolutions to ban fracking on township owned property.
These maps shows you the County Parcels, the lakes, the streams, and the status of leased proprierties: the ones that were leased prior to Mid. Dec. 2011 and those leased mid Dec. 2011- and July 2012. Kathie told me that these maps are very usefull and educative, as they help people to know which of their neighborhoods has leased their properties. In this way they know if or not they will be exposed to the dangers of fracking.
Concerned Citizens of Medina County tried to collaborate with teachers and school institution in order to raise awarness on the issue, but they refused saying it’s to much politics around this subject. They also organized different meetings, inviting President of Greene County Medical Society, Deborah Cowden to have a presentation about the Effects of Fracking Toxins on the Body.
Judith Cross is a retired judge who is running for Ohio State Representative in Medina County. She is for renewable energy and saving the environment. She is running againt a candidate that wants to Frack the entire country and the State of Ohio. So, we stayed and talked around the issue.
Loren Genson is a reporter from The Medina Gazette, and she was their to listen about my story and what is happening in ROmania with regard to fracking. Hopefully tommorow I’ll get a copy of the article she is writing about my story.
First we got to see the water well in the backyard of Mark Mangan family and then we went to the natural gas well, that was build in the natural park on the State. You can find more about the story here.
After this we went to the township of Harrisville, where the Devon Energy Production Company has constructed a unconvenation natural gas well, but after a while they took their equipment away, due the fact that the well wasn’t profitable enough. (picture). Kathie from Concerned Citizens of Medina County thinks that they are just waiting for the proper moment to extract the natural gas.
Sandra got me back home and had some interesting conversation about how humanity is not taking care of this planet.
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