YES = Truly essential reading
"Don Gilliland of the Harrisburg Patriot-News has written a superb series of four articles about the December 2013 Pennsylvania Supreme court ruling that overturned the Act 13 drilling law and breathed life - for the first time - into the Environmental Rights Amendment of Pennsylvania's state Constitution.
"The articles are essential reading for anyone wanting to understand Pennsylvania's dubious environmental history, the current state of Marcellus Shale regulation - and most importantly, the history and perhaps the future of environmental rights that have chiefly been observed only in the breach in the Keystone State. "

Can you help? Citizens' Bill of Rights to protect drinking water, homes and air quality-no matter what businesses come to the city of Youngstown. We are taking back local control for our residents to be able to live in safety and not have their health threatened by toxic chemicals. We need generous support (time, promotion and/or financial) in bringing the Community Bill of Rights charter amendment to the attention of voters and ALSO getting voters to the polls on May 6—funds for billboards, handouts, mailings, and radio spots. Can you help?

Please CALL IN RonVerb show 3-6pm Jan 14 Needs to know ‪fracking‬ is being permitted in Meander Reservoir - in the Drinking Water Source Protected Area - great opportunity to present our own local water concerns & issues & help to raise general public awareness. For example: Meander drinking water & MillCreek Park concerns. Live Internet stream so anyone can hear the WKBN radio 570 AM call-in talk show on RADIO or ONLINE Toll Free: 800-777-5700
Local: 330-729-9977
http://www.570wkbn.com/main.html

INFO about the permitted wells 1 mile from Reservoir:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.470113956428727.1073741835.263861137054011&type=3

Thanks for Posting this view of the plant - the sun going down on any semblance of area citizens' rights to clean air, water, work, life.

Thank you Chris and John and all yee defenders of clean air water land life.
Help protect Niles here: http://keepnilessafe.org/home.html

Buy a ‪#‎Brownie‬, Banish ‪#‎Fracking‬ ‪#‎Bakesale‬ & ‪#‎Youngstown‬ Registered Voters Can Sign Petition Feb 1 at fundraiser w/ HOT COFFEE. Bring a registered Ytown, ‪#‎Ohio‬ voter friend to sign petition at Sat. Northside Farmer's Market - Youngstown, Ohio
PLEASE contact to help gather signatures every day until deadline - need not be a Youngstown resident ~ spread the word ~ sigs needed by Feb 3, 8am! Call 234-201-0402 or email: frackfreemahoning@gmail.com to arrange to sign it.

READ bill HERE: http://www.protectyoungstown.org/
LIKE their FB Page here:
https://www.facebook.com/ProtectMahoningValley

10 am to 1pm.
Inside the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown, Ohio
1105 Elm St, Youngstown, OH 44505

Please share widely to your YOUNGSTOWN contacts !

MAP: https://goo.gl/maps/mG2BR

EVENT off FB:
https://t.co/gr0r2CyFdn

RALLY 11:00 am Niles, OH 44446 THURS Jan 16, 2014
EVENT on web: Welcome James “Not in my backyard” Zehringer: http://keepnilessafe.org/events.html
Peaceful Outside Protest: MEANDER Reservoir THEME
Time: 11am, 123 N. Main Street Downtown Niles, 44446
MAP: http://goo.gl/maps/9ciQO Ciminero’s Banquet Center (across from tire shop & Sparkle). Meet in front of Ciminero’s sign. Stay on Public Sidewalk. Do not block traffic or pedestrians. Bring a sign if you have one. Protect Meander Watershed. Restore local control. Rally outside w/ signs, talking to media and standing up for Clean Water and Local Control!

We would like a public meeting with ODNR concerning the Liming well pad on Yerke-Young Rd. <2000’ to the Meander Creek Reservoir shore (Protected Drinking Water Source Area)
SEE well HERE: http://frackfreemahoning.blogspot.com/2014/01/local-residents-concerns-over-rigs.html
See ODNR PERMIT for Halcon: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/mineral/oil/MRMImages/17/4/264496.pdf

If anyone could get on talk radio today, Please ask the public to come out and join us! Give details.

John will attend luncheon. There will be some extra signs. Lynn will make some posters and hopefully get there. John bringing the old/classic HONK FOR CLEAN WATER sign... YES!!! Hoping for Honks!

Government Affairs Council Presents Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer
Date: 1/16/2014
Time: 11:15 a.m.
Check-In & Lunch; 12 - 1 p.m.
Program Location: Ciminero's Banquet Centre, 123 N. Main St., Niles 44446
MAP: http://goo.gl/maps/9ciQO
James Zehringer, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which regulates the oil and gas industry in Ohio, will discuss a variety of topics at this GAC luncheon. Zehringer has said that the regulation of dangerous wild animals, environmentally safe development of shale in Ohio and reduction of phosphorous in the state’s waterways are key priorities. Before taking over as ODNR chief, he served as director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Zehringer is the former owner of the Meiring Poultry and Fish Farm in Fort Recovery, which received several awards for outstanding environmental practices. He also served as a former state representative for the 77th House District and as a Mercer County commissioner. After his talk, a panel consisting of government officials, landowners and business people will dialogue with Zehringer about shale development and other topics. Event Sponser: VEC Inc. (Valley Electrical Consolidated ) http://www.vecohio.com/

http://regionalchamber.com/memberresources/eventcalendar/events/jan16%20gacodnrjameszehringer.aspx

http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/596692/State-oil--gas-leader-to-speak-locally.html?nav=5003

For Immediate Release:  January 8, 2014 - Youngstown, Ohio, January 8, 2014  -  The Youngstown, Ohio area is a community that experienced what residents and scientists now know was at least 109 earthquakes in a place where there had been no previously recorded quakes.  The multiple Youngstown earthquakes included the now-famous 4.0 magnitude 2011 fracking waste injection well – related quake.
      Concerned citizens of Frackfree America National Coalition, based in Youngstown, and Frackfree Mahoning Valley have been following events in earthquake-rocked Azle, Texas and earthquake swarms in Oklahoma, where some reputable scientists suspect that the largest quake, a 5.6 magnitude in Prague, Oklahoma, is linked to injection well operations. 
      The local citizens’ groups are now reaching out to seek dialogue, share information, and to open channels of communication with the Azle, Texas community, with Oklahoma, with Ohio or other states with neighborhoods that may be experiencing similar situations involving injection wells and man-made earthquakes.  The groups are seeking to work together with others to find real, fair solutions to our common problems and concerns, here in Youngstown, Ohio, and other places with apparently similar issues, like Azle, Texas.
      An Azle, Texas townhall meeting took place on January 2, 2014 where over 800 residents gathered to get questions answered by Texas state officials (the Texas Railroad Commission) about the approximately 30 earthquakes they have had in about the last two months, according to multiple news reports.  In an astonishing turn of events, those officials reportedly would not answer the concerned citizens’ questions.  Residents of the Youngstown area have experienced other similar situations of a shocking lack of transparency on the part of their state regulatory agency, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).  The Youngstown group says public officials need to be responsive, honest, and transparent to the public and to the media.
READ MORE AT LINK >

500 gallons "dirty water" mixed with solvents spill into tributary of Mahoning River (Crab Creek), Youngstown, Ohio - downstream communities NOT warned?
SEE UPDATES as it unfolds:
https://www.facebook.com/Frackfree/posts/458341704272619

Sunday, November 24, 2013. Niles, Ohio
Two Youngstown, OH community members were arrested today at a nonviolent protest and rally at a fracking wastewater injection well site in Niles, OH. The two protesters were arrested for blocking trucks from entering the well site while holding a “Fracking Hurts Communities” banner. More than 50 people from Ohio and Pennsylvania attended the rally.
“The state of Ohio has refused to protect its communities from fracking,” said Chris Khumprakob, who was arrested during the protest. ”Hydraulic fracturing is poisoning our community and endangering our health, so we’ve come together today as a community to symbolically cleanse our water and take a stand for our health. The state government won’t protect our well-being, so we’ve decided to protect it ourselves.”