Jobs, jobs, jobs !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fracking is a boom economy with regard to jobs. Check out research on this. Everywhere fracking has occurred intensively, the communities are no better off than they were, economically before the boom. The community is left with the consequences of a highly industrial process that goes on for 3-8 years, leaves pipelines, compressor stations, separators, and pollution. The jobs move on to the next industrial site.

The jobs are grossly misrepresented and by Gov. Kasich's own admission: there are A LOT of out of state workers.

There's an informative event this evening:

The School of Communication Studies at Kent State University is proud to host its first annual Global Communication Issues Forum, Fracking: Promise or Peril? It will feature Dimiter Kenarov, a Pulitzer Center journalist on Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 7 p.m. in the KIVA Auditorium on the Kent State campus. This inaugural event examines the practice of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from the earth.

Panel includes: Dimiter Kenarov (Pulitzer Center journalist specializing in Natural gas extraction), Bob Downing (Akron Beacon, writes for the Ohio Utica Shale blog), Donald Palmer, Ph.D. emeritus professor of Geology at KSU, and Yoram Eckstein, Ph.D. professor of Geology and Hydrogeology.

The KIVA is located on Risman Drive, near the Kent State Student Center on Summit Street in Kent, Ohio. Paid parking is available.

More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/483852678319213/

There is evidence to suggest that the oil and gas industry itself is hyping up the prospective

Check out the talk by Deborah Rogers entitled "Shale Promises or Shale Spin? The Economics behind Fracking." Ms. Rogers is a long-time financial advisor for Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney. In 2003 she started a cheese-making farm in Fort Worth/Houston. She is a native of Texas and has personal experience with the drilling experience in Texas. Video is available at you tube. Ms. Rogers presents the premise that the projected longevity and existence of hydrofracked wells is a Ponzi scheme to prevent bankruptcy among the current competing drillers.

You need to judge for yourself/
http://youtu.ve/Ku6k4hYgznw

Sure, why not. The gas industry has said hy perfectly safe...just as the oil industry said deep water drilling in the Gulf was perfectly safe...and the nuclear industry that built Three Mile Island said their facility was perfectly safe...and the tobacco industry said that smoking was perfectly safe...and the chemical industry that manufactured DDT and Agent Orange were perfectly safe...and...

As one who has researched this topic for three years and lectured extensively about it in Northeastern Ohio, I will say unequivocally that it is a highly destructive procedure which destroys the environment, takes millions of gallons of fresh water (up to 8 million gallons per well drilled) from our lakes, streams and reservoirs, and contaminates that water (80% is recovered from each drilling), then dumps it into injection wells, resulting in groundwater contamination, rivers (e.g. the recent huge dump into the Mahoning), and "brine" ponds, which are known to leak into ponds from which cattle and other livestock drink. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision has resulted in many millions being poured into the coffers of governors, legislators and judges (who are elected in 39 states). They use these funds to resist any decent regulations, with the result that people are being poisoned by well and pond leakage. There are many documented cases of such poisoning, and even deaths, since benzene (one of the over 900 contaminants used in the injections) is a known carcinogen. Simply put, they are destroying our land and our people for (large) short-term gains accompanied by very long-term devastation which our children and grandchildren will be forced to live with. At the very least, we need a moratorium until more is known about the process, and, of course, we need better regulations of the industry.

Thanks for all your good work. My comment on fracking has been submitted.

There is an indefinate ban on fracking in Germany. They have a conservative government, however, still seem to care more about the long term health of their citizens than short term economic benefits. We need a similar ban in Ohio until there is a way to extract the natural gas and oil without using vast quantities of water. We also need to ban disposal of fracking wastewater in Ohio. Its the only way to stop the inflow of this toxic material from other states.

I am strongly opposed to allowing fracking period, but ESPECIALLY anywhere near our children/young adults. Please, at some point, we must value the health & safety of the people over the supposed "wealth" of fracking. We can't drink or eat money...we have to be mindful of the natural resources. Please research this thoroughly!!

I am opposed to the idea of fracking on or near Kent State University or anywhere for that matter. Potential exposures to proprietary EPA Clean Air and Water Acts exempted chemicals is not something a student should have to consider when choosing a college, or put up with that after paying tuition for the year. A former KSU grad and now a parent I would not send my children into an environment where they could be exposed to endocrine disrupting and carcinogenic chemicals. It is additionally unsettling that if there was an accident and subsequent exposure students and faculty currently would not be able to even find out from medical professionals what chemical cocktail they were exposed to thanks to Senate Bill 315. Kent State and the rest of the state need to put the civil rights, health and safety of its people first.

Not to mention the uranium that is in the marcellus shale. I never read enough about that. Just another toxic feather in the vile fracking industries filthy cap.

Where there is a university, there is housing and neighborhoods. Even in Stark, there are residential areas VERY close by that use wells (ahem... me) and that's a threat that I would hope the university officials would consider if they ever HAVE to consider it. I can't see it happening at Stark because the land is so beautiful, they've invested in installing a pond, take pride in caring for the land around the pond to encourage wildlife and there is a wetland adjacent to the pond that is very important (as any wetlands are) to the local wildlife. With all these changes, many people and members of organizations rely on this land for recreation and education. It's quite a little gem.