Friday, September 8, 3-5pm, John W. Bricker Federal Building, 200 N. High St.

Join us in Columbus on September 8 to rally against Energy Transfer Partners and the next lease auction of Wayne National Forest land to oil and gas companies.

The next Bureau of Land Management lease auction of Wayne National Forest to gas and oil companies will be September 21; ETP’s disastrous Rover Pipeline, which has already destroyed an Ohio wetland area just in its construction phase and goes through private land within WNF’s acquisition boundary, is set to be operational by November.

Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) — owner of the disastrous Dakota Access Pipeline and Rover Pipeline, among others — is wreaking havoc across the United States. From North Dakota to Pennsylvania, from Ohio to Louisiana, from Michigan to Texas, ETP continues to systematically and ruthlessly violate indigenous sovereignty and human rights. Wherever they build, ETP steals land, poisons air and water, and trashes the climate.

The weekend of September 9, we will join an emerging coalition of frontline communities and allies that will be taking action across the country to #StopETP and defend indigenous rights and our water, land, air, and climate.

Sister events will take place around the country during this weekend of action, including Ohio rallies in Athens, Cleveland, and Marietta.