The Risks to the Greater Columbus Water Supply from Oil & Gas Production
Carolyn Harding with Bob Krasen, Sandy Bolzenius and Will Perkins, volunteer organizers with the Columbus Community Rights Coalition and Leads on the recently released White Paper Study, The Risks to the Greater Columbus Water Supply from Oil and Gas Production.\n\nIn retirement, Bob Krasen became an activist for SPAN Ohio in 2006. The organization wants "Health Care for All Ohioans" and/or Enhanced and Improved Medicare for All. He joined the Columbus Community Rights Coalition in 2014 because he figured there was no point in trying to get health care for all, if we were going to be poisoned by our drinking water. We need both clean water and health care for all.\n\nSandy Bolzenius is a local community rights activist, the facilitator for Move to Amend (Central Ohio), an Army veteran, and a former international teacher who has lived in Europe, Africa, and Asia. she holds a doctorate in History from the Ohio State University, and is the author of Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army during World War II (University of Illinois Press, 2018). Sandy believes that a just, fully inclusive and sustainable world for all is not only possible, but within our grasp--so long as People (not Big Money) are deciding our public policies.\n\nWill Perkins was born and raised in Columbus. He was a member of the first graduating class of Columbus Northland High School and went on to graduate from both Columbus Technical Institute and Ohio Dominican College. He spent his career in printing and graphic arts, ranging from printing press operator to plant manager, and finished his printing career as manager of the in-house printing and mailing operation at Ross Laboratories, a division of Abbott Laboratories. He is realizing a life goal by spending his retirement years involved in community activism with a focus on endeavoring to improve our planet for future generations.\n\nIn February of 2021 the Columbus Community Rights Coalition (CCRC) reached out to the Columbus Water Department asking for a copy of the Columbus Source Water Protection Plan to review and ascertain whether Columbus was testing for oil & gas production and waste contaminants in the Columbus Metro water supply, serving over 1,200,000 people and 20+ communities. \n\nThe CCRC White Paper team received only 3 out of the 9 sections of the Columbus Source Water Protection Plan. Undaunted you took on the material provided, researched publications, peer reviewed scientific studies, conferred with water, soil and map scientists, to write, The Risks to the Greater Columbus Water Supply from Oil and Gas Production - White Paper.\n\nwww.ColumbusBillofRights.org\n\nGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.\n\nEvery Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,\nSundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.\n\nContact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.\n\nFace Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/\n\nInstagram:\nhttps://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/\n\nAll shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753\n\nApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085\n\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/\n\nIntro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8\n\nThere's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!