Wednesday, April 24, 6pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The Ohio Community Rights Network [OHCRN] is inviting you for a discussion on “The Industrial Excess Landfill (IEL): Ohio’s Regulatory Train Wreck,” on Wednesday, April 24, at 6pm, from around the state. This will be the third in a series of Community Conversations that OHCRN will facilitate on a monthly basis. We will hear from an activist who has been fighting this disaster for 40 years.

When you register using this link, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link by which to attend this event.

In order to prepare for a rich discussion, we are asking you to view this short six-minute video, Uniontown, Ohio Landfill News Clip #24, and consider the following questions beforehand.

1. Is a former 30-acre sand and gravel pit, unlined, on a hill, near the center of town, with 3000 residents (mostly dependent upon well water) living within a 1-mile radius, a proper location for an industrial landfill? Where is a good location for an industrial landfill?

2. How long do you let residents ingest contaminated groundwater before testing, then inform them that they must abandon their private wells (under the threat of civil penalties and fines) to hook up to a provided public water supply?

3.The remedy provided by the combined professional expertise and resources of the USEPA, Ohio EPA, Ohio Department of Health, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), multinational Potentially Responsible Parties, U.S. Army, National Analytical Radiation Environmental Laboratory (NAREL) and others was to simply cover the IEL site with a 4-inch-thick semi-permeable cap and surround it by a chain-link fence. How protected would you feel living next to that?

4. Do court settlements with imposed “gag orders” supersede the public’s right to know when life, health, safety, and welfare are at stake? Worded differently, does money supersede humanity?

We are looking forward to an informative and empowering discussion!

Please join us and pass this on to anyone else you think would be interested.

Go to our website here and scroll down to listen to the “First Conversation on Community Rights and Preemption” with Athens activists and the “Second Conversation on Community Rights and the Regulatory Fallacy” with Youngstown activists.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Ohio Community Rights Network.