72 Percent of Ohioans Want A Fracking Moratorium, Citing Need For More Study

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The unconventional gas industry’s latest rush in the United States will land it in the state of Ohio, but a recent poll shows that the state’s residents are not rolling out the red carpet for an industry famous for threatening drinking water supplies, causing earthquakes, noise and air pollution and trying to proliferate global addiction to fossilย fuels.

Results from a Quinnipiac University poll released today shows thatย 59 percent of those polledย have heard of or read about hydraulic fracturing, or โ€œfracking,โ€ the complex and risky process that enables unconventional gas drilling. A whopping 72 percent of Ohioans familiar with fracking support a moratorium on the process until it is studied further.

The other 41-percent of citizens are likely to follow suit once they discover what is headed their way, and how little this industry will help them from a financial point of view in the longย run.

Ohio recently found itself with the fracking shakes, as magnitude 4.0-level earthquakes struck near Youngstown on New Year’s Eve. Scientists suspect the earthquakes resulted from a wastewater injection well disposing of fracking brine from Pennsylvania. Theย Christian Science Monitorย explained in a story that the โ€œquake triggered shaking reportedly felt as as far away as Buffalo, N.Y., andย Toronto.โ€ย 

These fracking-related earthquakes are not an aberation, but rather a repeated occurence linked to fracking in Texas, Oklahoma, andย Arkansas,ย as well as abroad in the U.K., in the city Blackpool.ย Al Jazeera Englishย recently ran a story on the Ohio fracking-induced earthquakes.ย Watch:

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Steve Horn is the owner of the consultancy Horn Communications & Research Services, which provides public relations, content writing, and investigative research work products to a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit clients across the world. He is an investigative reporter on the climate beat for over a decade and former Research Fellow for DeSmog.

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