As Heat Grows, Flippy-Flop: "At This Point, (Kasich) Doesn't Support Fracking In State Parks"
Less than three years after signing legislation opening up Ohio state parks and forests to fracking, Gov. John Kasich now opposes the controversial horizontal drilling for oil and gas on public lands.
“At this point, the governor doesn’t support fracking in state parks,” Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols told The Dispatch. “We reserve the right to revisit that, but it’s not what he wants to do right now, and that’s been his position for the past year and a half.”
Word of Kasich’s reversal came the same day Democratic lawmakers called for an investigation of a marketing plan to promote fracking on state lands that was put together a year and a half ago by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which regulates oil and gas drilling. Nichols said the dust-up over the previously undisclosed 10-page memo from August 2012 had nothing to do with Kasich’s stance.
“Ohio doesn’t permit this kind of oil and gas production in state parks because the governor doesn’t think we have the policies in place yet to properly do it. If and when that changes, then perhaps this hypothetical discussion has relevance. But until then, it’s a political sideshow conjured up by people who want to kill fracking and the jobs it creates.”
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