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Mission Summary: To spread the truth about fracking to faith communities
throughout Ohio and beyond: Fracking harms God’s Creation. It must be stopped, AND…
We must move to a new paradigm of renewable energy if we are to save God’s Creation, which sustains all life on earth.

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Plea for Help: Urgent Situation in Portage County

Message from Gwen Fischer of Concerned Citizens Ohio:

May 30 - ODNR is holding a public informational meeting about the pending seven (7) injection wells in Nelson/Windham townships. We asked for a public hearing close to the pending injection wells to get our concerns out in public and this is what we got: Public Information Meeting Thursday, May 30th, 2013, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Pine Tree Lodge, Wingfoot Lake State Park, 993 Goodyear Park Blvd. Mogadore, Ohio, 44260. Although the neighbors in Nelson/Windham will go to the meeting, it is an outrage that this meeting is being held in the farthest SW corner of Portage County, when the proposed wells are in the farthest NE corner of the county.

I’ve attached additional information which you should read if you are coming because there are specific instructions. If anyone from NE Portage needs a ride to the Mogadore meeting (in SW Portage) please reply to this email and we’ll make arrangements. If these injection wells are permitted, Portage Potty (I mean County) will be the proud owner of 24 injection wells. These seven injection wells are on the 1400 acre property which already has two horizontal Utica well pads and something like 7 horizontal wells. WE NEED EVERYONE WE CAN GET TO COME TO THIS “INFORMATIONAL MEETING”.

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Interfaith Statement on Climate Change

“Lazarus, come out: A Shared statement of hope in the face of climate change”

[a statement by faith leaders of many different Christian denominations at Old South Church in Boston, April 27, 2013]

As people of the Ressurrection, it is appropraite that we gather in this Easter Season to praise God and to celebrate the beauty of God’s Creation. As Christians, we do not live in the despair and melancholy of the tomb, but in the light of the Risen Christ. Our ressurrection hope, which is grounded in the promise of renewal and restoration for all of God;’s Creation, gives us energy and strengh to respond to the accelerating threat of climate change.

Let us be clear. The sientific data is stark. We know that climate instability is reaching a dangerous point. Now is the time to slow the rate of catastrophic climate change. Unless we take action now, our children and our children’s children will live in a world of increasingly unexpected and dangerous climate events. Climate change already affects the ability to grow crops to feed the growing world population, creating significant concern for food security. The poorest among us are becoming even more vulnerable. Biodiversityin many regions of the world is being destroyed, and species are becoming extinct at alarming rates.

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“The vocation of being a “protector”, however, is not just something involving us Christians alone; it also has a prior dimension which is simply human, involving everyone. It means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us. It means respecting each of God’s creatures and respecting the environment in which we live.” ~ Pope Francis I

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Thank you UU Fellowship of Oberlin for a great FaCT Meeting on May 19

And Congratulations on your one-year anniversary in your present building — a great facility!

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PLANS PENDING FOR NEXT MEETING. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

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Our affiliate, FaCT of the Ohio Valley [FaCT-OV], serves Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, and Jefferson Counties in Ohio and Brooke, Marshall, and Ohio Counties in West Virginia
FaCT-OV meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. at the Ohio Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Bellaire, OH. For more information, please contact Pat Jacobson at: Patnjake@sprynet.com

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Warwood Residents Keep Up Opposition to Frack Water Plant

May 8, 2013

By IAN HICKS – Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

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WHEELING – Relentless in their efforts to keep frack water from being recycled in Warwood, neighborhood residents on Tuesday handed Wheeling City Council a petition bearing the signatures of more than 200 people who feel the same way.

For the fourth time in as many council meetings, concerned residents packed the room to urge their elected officials to stop a proposed treatment plant for natural gas drilling waste from locating on the former Seidler’s Oil Service property on North 28th Street. Houston, Texas-based GreenHunter Water is planning $1.7 million of construction at the site, which will result in 798,000 gallons of storage capacity.

After hearing more opposition Tuesday, Wheeling officials reminded residents that the property on which GreenHunter Water plans to build already is zoned industrial, and the city’s options are limited as long as the company plays by the rules.

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For Baseline and Follow-up testing of your water wells, be sure that you are using ONLY Ohio EPA Certified Testing Labs. Follow the Link below to a comprehensive list of certified labs:

(You should get Tier III Testing)

COMPREHENSIVE LIST of CERTIFIED LABS

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

This section links to letters that FaCT participants have had published in Ohio newspapers:

Letter to The Plain Dealer from Dorothy Faller

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Statements of Conscience on Fracking and on the Environment:

(View or Download “FaCT Mission/Vision Statement“ as a PDF)

(View ”FaCT’s Letter to Faith Communities” )

(View “Interfaith Otsego Resolution on Fracking in NY, Sept. 6, 2012″)

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Faith and Fracking [From New York State - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - VERY INSPIRING]
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Fr. Neil Pezzulo:

(View or Download “Fracking: Contrary to the Common Good And Simply Bad Public Policy” as a PDF)

(View or Download “Episcopal Statement on Fracking” as a PDF)

(View or Download “A Catholic Brother on Fracking” as a PDF)

(View or Download “Catholic Nuns on Fracking” as a PDF)

(View or Download “Statements bearing on Fracking” as a PDF)

(View or Download “People of Faith Confront Hydrofracking” as a PDF)

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Faith leaders join the fight against fracking

By ROBERT WHITE, Commentary

Published 10:38 pm, Tuesday, January 29, 2013

People of faith sometimes speak inconvenient words, and America is better for it. We believe God calls us to be a voice for poor nations suffering the ravages of climate change, a voice for our children and generations yet unborn and a voice for the beautiful and beleaguered planet Earth.

In New York, the attention of many faith leaders and communities is focused on the imminent danger to our land, air, water and health posed by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” We join with other concerned citizens — doctors, business owners, farmers, chefs, artists, mothers and teachers — to organize and oppose this dangerous natural gas extraction method being considered by the Cuomo administration.

Psalm 24 declares, “The Earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world and all who live in it. For he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.”

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