100 Anti-Fracking Activists Overwhelm Injection Well Site in Ohio

29 July 2013 Over 100 anti-frack­ing activists have tak­en over the entrance to an injec­tion well site in Ohio. The action comes at the end of the week­end-long Don’t Frack Ohio event, which was full of train­ings and activ­i­ties.

The ral­ly is spear­head­ed by “con­cerned cit­i­zen” groups and 350.org as part of the nation­al Sum­mer Heat cam­paign. It is being labeled “Don’t Frack Ohio 2.0,” in ref­er­ence to last year’s action involv­ing more than a thou­sand par­tic­i­pants.

Don’t Frack Ohio states on their web­page: “Remem­ber Don’t Frack Ohio from last sum­mer when over a thou­sand of us marched in Colum­bus, took over the state­house rotun­da and held a People’s Assem­bly? We are doing it again this year, with a bold­er action and with more grass­roots Ohio lead­er­ship. We are focus­ing on Class 2 injec­tion wells and the infu­sion of tox­ic radioac­tive frack­ing waste brought in from oth­er states and also being gen­er­at­ed in Ohio. Last year the Oil & Gas indus­try inject­ed almost 600 mil­lion gal­lons of tox­ic waste in our state, with lit­tle regard for our com­mu­ni­ties health and wel­fare.”

The goal of this and oth­er actions are to get the gov­er­nor to ban injec­tion wells, in par­tic­u­lar, which would effec­tive­ly end frack­ing in the state.