This recent audio interview was posted October 30, 2017 on KBOO Radio's website. This 8 minute interview can be heard HERE On Wednesday, the Coos River Estuary filed a motion to intervene in the permitting process for the Jordan Cove Energy Project. The motion was filed as part of proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC. Jordan Cove [...]
This original article by Jan Larson McLaughlin originally appeared in BG Independent News October 27, 2017. Earlier this month, Nexus pipeline officials filed a lawsuit against all holdout property owners. Bowling Green was one of those communities that had refused to grant the pipeline an easement to cross its land. This time around, the pipeline [...]
This article by Peter Kuebeck originally appeared in the Sentinal-Tribune, October 19th, 2017. Two weeks after the most recent filing in the case, the Ohio Supreme Court has denied a lawsuit by a Bowling Green resident, allowing a proposed charter amendment to remain on the ballot. MORE...
This news story by Simon Davis-Cohen originally appeared on DeSmogBlog October 18, 2017. For the first time since 2013, a group of activists in Youngstown, Ohio, has been told it cannot place an anti-fracking initiative on local ballots, due in part to a misinformation campaign from the fossil fuel industry. MORE...
This article originally appeared in the Bradford Era on October 3, 2017. Highland Township’s controversial home rule charter has been stripped of its oil and gas provisions by a federal judge. … The saga over oil and gas rights in Highland Township has been ongoing for several years. In 2013, at the urging of Community [...]
This article by Elon Glucklich originally appeared in The Register-Guard, September 30, 2017. Lane County environmental activists may have gathered enough signatures to put a countywide ban on aerial herbicide spraying on next year’s ballot, most likely drawing timber companies into a heated election battle. MORE...
This print and audio news story by Eric Tegethoff originally appeared on the Public News Service, September 11, 2017. NEWPORT, Ore. – Can a river defend itself in court? On Monday, a judge in Newport will answer that question in the case of the Siletz River Ecosystem. MORE...
This article by Jan Larson McLaughlin originally appeared in BG Independent News, September 6, 2017. The Wood County Board of Elections voted this morning to let Bowling Green voters decide the fate of a pipeline charter amendment. It may then be up to the courts to decide of the amendment is constitutional. MORE...
Proposal would seek to ban certain new fossil fuel infrastructure from city property This article by Peter Kuebeck originally appeared in the Sentinal-Tribune, September 6, 2017. After weeks of questions, the Wood County Board of Elections voted this morning to place a proposed Bowling Green charter amendment on the November ballot. MORE...
This article by Jan Larson McLaughlin originally appeared in BG Independent News, August 18, 2107. The petition to get a pipeline issue on Bowling Green’s November ballot cleared its first hurdle Friday – just barely. A total of 1,230 signatures were collected on the petition. By law, to make it on the ballot, the petition [...]