
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>If you oppose fracking on Ohio’s public lands…. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Click on the top green bar to make it easy to write a letter to the Oil and Gas Commission. —dawn</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="600" class="container" align="center"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table class="border_style tb_properties" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="100%" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px solid transparent; font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="content_padding" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" class="header" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 600px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="responsive-td" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><img data-assetid="1453828" src="https://image.emails.sierraclub.org/lib/fe9313727761047476/m/2/d35a2a3b-4483-426a-881b-090281eb6a0b.png" alt="" height="110" width="300" style="outline: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: 110px; width: 300px; border: 0px;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr class=""><td align="center" class="header" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 600px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="responsive-td" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 600px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 6px 0px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;" class="">Dear Dawn,</span><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" class="">In January, House Bill 507 – was signed into law that intended to regulate poultry sales included last minute amendments<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">allowing the oil and gas industry to frack and extract public lands</b>. Ohio public lands – which include 800,000 acres of state parks, forests, wildlife areas, historical sites, college campuses, and transportation land –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">belong to all of us and are at risk!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>The law will go into effect on April 7th, and the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission will be compelled to lease state lands.<br class=""><br class="">The Oil and Gas Land Commission – a council within the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) – is reviewing the public lands nominations for fracking and approving/denying those lands for leasing. They should uphold ODNR's mission to protect Ohioans’ air, water and public parks from polluting and dangerous legislation like HB 507!</p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="innertd buttonblock" bgcolor="#508142" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(80, 129, 66);"><a target="_blank" class="buttonstyles" href="https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c1e20711ecfad077aaafb6b3b5fb1ca3b5fe3b377fef726c71f8e08d7a5e6528c893071bc5e93c6a52b4092b4bb798c4c7f26b52ba47922963145b08baaebc90" title="Ensure your voice is heard!" data-linkto="https://" style="font-size: 20px; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; text-decoration: none; display: block; background-color: rgb(80, 129, 66); border: 1px solid rgb(93, 93, 93); padding: 10px; border-radius: 3px;">Take action now, prior to the hearing in 4 days! Submit testimony to ensure your voice is heard!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><img data-assetid="1453351" src="https://image.emails.sierraclub.org/lib/fe9313727761047476/m/2/919ef928-971b-4f8d-8092-1e66be5eedab.jpg" alt="Fracking Pad surrounded by wilderness" width="4000" style="outline: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; text-align: center; height: auto; width: 600px; border: 0px;" class=""></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Photo citation: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2021.</span><br class=""> </td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;">As part of the administrative approval process, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will hold a public hearing about oil and gas extraction from our public lands. The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c1e20711ecfad0776d850d207466692fcaa4d3d79950c0c7512bc52f130628a56ffdc1eef7ad09d559c7ad88c0d48eb0aef746443f65166e" title="hearing" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline;" class="">hearing</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will be Monday, April 10, at 10 a.m. at the ODNR headquarters, Building E Assembly Center, 2045 Morse Road, Columbus, OH -- and we need people to testify in person or send in a written comment.<br class=""><br class="">In signing HB 507 into law,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c1e20711ecfad077953738ea6bc430ea1e3c865c32db29dba15964104c89608379c8cd80be6fa16eb71f9ddd0e82189993a6ad94beb21d1d" title="Gov. Mike DeWine stated" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Gov. Mike DeWine stated</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that oil and gas companies could set up near state parks and conduct horizontal drilling for mineral rights<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">under</i>our public lands;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><i class="">his administration would not allow surface impacts on our public lands</i></b>. Surface impacts refer to things like frack well pads, pipelines, access roads, temporary or permanent waste water pits, timber removal, and water withdrawals -- none of which we want on our state lands.<br class=""><br class="">Yet, the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c1e20711ecfad077be2ceec2f1b1b8d9b6873131b35c95a317d31d69b6a6548143ff7684c3a7fed7e8a239a374ee9c030adcf664d58ebd92" title="drafted a lease form" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline;" class="">drafted a lease form</a>instructing oil and gas companies that want surface impacts, to create a separate agreement with the agency that manages public land to allow it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">Critically, this agreement would be made with no public notification or comment.</b><br class=""><br class="">To date, the public has been given only one opportunity to comment on the proposed draft rule and lease form that will oversee leasing of our public lands to oil and gas companies for extraction. This is unacceptable. If any surface impacts are being planned or proposed on Ohio’s public land, that needs to be part of the application to the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission, so the public will be notified and given a chance to comment.</td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="innertd buttonblock" bgcolor="#508142" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(80, 129, 66);"><a target="_blank" class="buttonstyles" href="https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c1e20711ecfad077a9fd07755e710026298e9b179cb2da0d75a2f48bf8c3e7ef52702eb649ab18b42ab939d53fd95def23a5262f7bb7fc513caa1927ad079301" title="Submit a comment now!" data-linkto="https://" style="font-size: 20px; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; text-decoration: none; display: block; background-color: rgb(80, 129, 66); border: 1px solid rgb(93, 93, 93); padding: 10px; border-radius: 3px;">We have a small chance to do this over the next few days, submit a comment now.</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br class=""><b class="">Fracking is a threat to our health and environment! Why?</b><ul class=""><li class="">Use of PFAS and toxic chemicals used in drilling and fracking</li><li class="">Leaks - Ground water and drinking water sources are at risk of contamination, further point pollution of soil and toxic air emissions.</li><li class="">Health impacts near fracking include: Premature births, Low birth weight, Birth defects, Asthma, Migraine, Fatigue, Heart-related problems, certain types of cancer, like lymphoma and childhood leukemia</li><li class="">Earthquakes</li><li class="">Negative Impacts on biodiversity and landscape</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" role="presentation" class="stylingblock-content-wrapper" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="stylingblock-content-wrapper camarker-inner" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" role="presentation" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class="innertd buttonblock" bgcolor="#508142" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-radius: 3px; background-color: rgb(80, 129, 66);"><a target="_blank" class="buttonstyles" href="https://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c1e20711ecfad0770f28c73682931516c906bd8bcc2a95f631c446842698a7c65f240f803827c20a181e65481b49ac1bc3be37fd759d3eaae671bf063081c37c" title="Take Action Now!" data-linkto="https://" style="font-size: 20px; font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; text-decoration: none; display: block; background-color: rgb(80, 129, 66); border: 1px solid rgb(93, 93, 93); padding: 10px; border-radius: 3px;">Take action to protect our state parks and lands – Urge the Oil and Gas Commision to consider the negative consequences to our health and environment!</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td>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