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Sep 27, 2018
Community Rights and Rights of Nature are growing. Here, how Toledo residents are advancing them to protect the Great Lake Erie.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success StoryAug 22, 2017
CELDF’s Tish O’Dell is on the Thom Hartmann Program, exploring why we don’t have a fracking problem – but instead a democracy problem.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsMar 20, 2016
Ohio resident Tish O’Dell counters the oil and gas industry’s insistence that fracking is safe. Regardless, communities have the right to determine what happens in the places where they live, and protect their health, safety, and welfare.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsFeb 16, 2016
Broadview Heights, OH, residents’ strong stand to block new drilling wells keeps fracking out and oil and gas companies away.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 13, 2016
Broadview Heights, OH, residents’ CELDF attorney presents oral arguments on the people’s inalienable right to protect their communities from fracking over the corporate claimed “right” to frack.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsJan 11, 2016
A class action lawsuit filed by CELDF on behalf of Broadview Heights residents to uphold their inalienable right to local self-government – including their right to protect clean air and pure water – is heard last week by a Court of Appeals in Ohio.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the GrassrootsDec 11, 2015
While the state and the oil and gas industry work together to force fracking activities into communities, those same communities are working to reclaim their right to local, community self-government, just as the American Revolutionaries did against the British state in the 1700s.
Read More | Community WiresSep 16, 2015
Ohio government officials, both locally and at the state level, use oil and gas industry law firms in an attempt to keep the people’s ballot initiatives impacting banning fracking off the November ballot.
Read More | Community Wires, Press Releases & BlogsMar 15, 2015
While a County Court elevates corporate claimed “rights” over community rights in Broadview Heights, OH, residents assert the decision is illegitimate and determine to continue on.
Read More | UncategorizedNov 6, 2012
Today, the residents of Broadview Heights banned fracking from within the City limits through a Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment. The amendment established the right to clean air and water, and the right to local self-government, banning fracking as a violation of those rights.
Read More | Community Wires, News from the Grassroots, Success Story