Carolyn Harding with Becca Pollard, Central Ohio Sierra Club, Vicky Abou-Ghalioum, GradRoots, OSU Grad environmental org. and Jan Nespor, OSU professor, advocates for Clean Energy/ fighting the multimillion Fracked Gas Power Plant slated to be built in the middle of the Ohio State University Campus.
What will the impact be on the students, faculty, the equine facility nearby, the community? Who are the hidden players in this huge build up? What can we, the Davids do to Demand Clean Renewable Sustainable energy in the heart of our City, when the Goliaths Want Fracked Gas?
Becca Pollard is an Organizer with the Sierra Club and a founding member of Keep Wayne Wild. She lives in Columbus and works with activists around the state.
Victoria Abou-Ghalioum is a PhD student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. She is the chair of SENR's graduate student organization, GradRoots, and studies environmental social science. Her research interests center on racial justice in sustainability, where she critically analyzes the deliberate suppression of the voices of People of Color in the environmental movement and in current discourse around sustainable development/living.
Jan Nespor has been a professor is in the Department of Educational Studies at OSU for the past 12 years. He’s currently doing research on virtual schooling and international policy mobility, but tries to keep up on issues related to climate change and environmental degradation.
TAKE ACTION HERE:
Sierra Club form to submit comments https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/tell-the-ohio-power-siting-board-reject-osus-proposal-for-a-new-gas-plant-on-campus
Facebook Event for hearing https://www.facebook.com/events/290615938809817/
Registration form for hearing https://opsb.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/opsb/help-center/register-to-testify-osu-lp/register-to-testify-osu?fbclid=IwAR3ocyI2YZz8LKtYotmcsh6pVpqeZZJuHfPk8i_thXwf2XgEMlxWYYNhB5g
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