Oil, natural-gas drilling proposed for park land (Ohio)

[upstatecajun]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 03:09 AM
By Spencer Hunt


State parks would be open for oil and natural-gas drilling, and funding for two agencies involved in environmental protection would be cut by a total of $73.2 million in the next fiscal year, according to budget documents and officials.

The proposal to open some of the 200,000 acres in state parks to drilling was not named in the budget documents, but Ohio Department of Natural Resources officials forwarded a section of Gov. John Kasich's proposed budget bill that would give the agency the authority to lease state park land for oil and gas exploration.



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[enough]

1. Our new Republican Governor in PA has already opened up the State Parks for drilling. (nt)

[david_vincent]

4. Thanks for the tipoff -- my wife and I will boycott PA

for our upcoming vacation.

[liberal N proud]

2. A greedy land grab

"cutting EPA spending doesn't help eliminate the deficit but does hurt efforts to clean the state's water and air."

[momrois]

3. How quickly they forget

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1642

[truth2power]

5. How is it, exactly, that the people of Ohio are expected to profit from this?...

Maybe they could make something off leasing the land, but any oil would just be sold on the world market. Am I wrong on that?