Ohio Democrat House members have introduced a bill to solve a problem that doesn’t exist. House Bill (HB) 399 would ban fracking under Lake Erie (which has NEVER been proposed or even thought of), and ban fracking under state-owned parks, which is now happening. With respect to drilling under (not on) state-owned parks, when it happens, nobody knows it’s happening (see Drilling Begins Under Salt Fork State Park – “No Signs of Fracking”). There is no noise, no pollution, nothing. There *are no* impacts to the parks themselves as all drilling is done from adjacent properties. Yet the Dems want it banned. We have to ask, why? What possible reason is there to ban something that isn’t doing any harm yet brings revenue to the state?
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