Tuesday, January 7th at 6:00pm
Buckeye Environmental Network will be holding an informational webinar for the community and media to learn more about the ARCH2 project and its implications. Presenters include: eastern Ohio-based environmental scientist and retired chemistry teacher Dr. Randi Pokladnik, who will be presenting the health and environmental impacts, and Sean O’Leary, a researcher with the Ohio River Valley Institute, who will discuss the economic impacts of hydrogen and how the region has already suffered economically from fracking.
Register for the webinar at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vduyqrzsrHt0C6ZX8B9f5CQDFQBv605Ya#/registration

Thursday, January 9th at 6:30 pm
Barrette Center – Walsh University, 2020 E Maple St, North Canton, OH
Buckeye Environmental Network (BEN), a thirty-year-old statewide environmental justice nonprofit based in Ohio, will be holding a press conference and a rally in response to the proposed Appalachian Region “Clean” Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2) “open house” at Walsh University

The ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub does not benefit communities, and it will perpetuate the harms of oil and gas extraction in the Appalachian region - an area that has already suffered the health, economic, and environmental impacts from extractive industries for generations. The industry plans to use greenwashing and more fracked gas for hydrogen production. The process has been purposefully non-transparent for the public and the “open house” is simply a “box checking” exercise and little to no information about the Hub has been shared with the community. Furthermore, the Department of Energy is backing the project, and plans to give nearly a billion dollars to the regional hydrogen hub developers. Targeted areas for hydrogen projects are scattered across Appalachia and into northeast Ohio. The press conference and rally are in response to the “open house” event being held at Walsh University.