Property rights take a back seat to fossil fuel profits
February 19, 2024 Dr. Randi Pokladnik LTE Columbus Dispatch Ohio pro-fossil-fuel laws are enabling both public and private lands to be exploited by out-of-state fossil fuel companies. In 2022, House Bill 507 was passed during the 2022 General Assembly “lame duck” session…. Read More
Renewable energy is no threat to agriculture
Feb 3, 2024 RANDI POKLADNIK Herald-Star Online Why does Ohio’s Republican party continue to vilify solar and wind energy, as evidenced by a recent opinion piece “We must abandon reckless wind and solar subsidies” by U.S. Senate candidate… Read More
Good News for the Ohio River Valley!
Written by: Dr. Randi Pokladnik | Posted on: 12-30-2023 | FaCT: Faith Communities Together for a Sustainable Future Category: News | Ohio River Valley PTTGCA Solar battery storage FORM Energy As 2023 comes to an end, the people in the Ohio River Valley… Read More
Democracy Denied: Oil and Gas Land Management Commission
Written by: Dr. Randi Pokladnik | Posted on: 12-27-2023 | FaCT: Faith Communities Together for a Sustainable Future Category: fracking | oil and gas commission On Monday, September 18th, about 75 Ohio citizens traveled from all over the state… Read More
Another Assault on Local Communities and National Forests
Written by: Dr. Randi Pokladnik | Posted on: 12-27-2023 | FaCT: Faith Communities Together for a Sustainable Future Category: action | fracking carbon capture and storage The United State Forest Service has proposed a rule change to allow carbon dioxide captured… Read More
Put an end to sacrilegious treatment of public lands
Nov 25, 2023 George Banzinger In its Nov. 16 edition, The Marietta Times carried a story with the headline, “Ohio commission approves fracking in state parks.” I attended this event at the headquarters of the Ohio Department of… Read More
It is time the public gets scientifically based facts
August 14, 2023 Dr. Randi Pokladnik The bargainhunter.com Letter to the Editor, Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with a politician and a few local business owners about the oil and gas industry. Those who supported fracking… Read More
Don’t frack Ohio’s parks
This letter to the editor was originally published in The Bargain Hunter on June 22, 2023. By Randi Pokladnik As of May 30, oil and gas companies can “nominate” land parcels within citizen-owned state parks and forests to obtain… Read More
Throwing us under the fracking truck
May 13, 2023 Times Leader online Randi Pokladnik Ohio’s Republican party is ignoring the health of residents in Appalachian counties as it uses the recent passage of House Bill 507 to enable fracking on Ohio’s public lands. HB… Read More
Posted: February 28, 2024 by main_y0ke11
Stop all LNG projects
2/28/2024 Randi Pokladnik Canton Repository The recent op-ed in The Hill, titled “Biden’s LNG decision will make it harder to reach our climate goals,” by Tim Ryan and Mary Landrieu, claims that “without natural gas as a foundation,”… Read More