Save Ohio Parks

@saveohioparks.bsky.social

Ohio org aims to stop fracking under our pristine state parks and public lands. Help protect our natural resources for future generations. Join us. Act.

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 3:24 PM

Back by popular demand: Prepare to express yourself persuasively to Ohio Power Siting Board at Oct. 15, 22 workshops.

450 MW PowerConneX II New Albany North gas plant proposed to power EdgeConneX data center complex. RSVP: bit.ly/10-15workshop

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:50 PM

It only took 5 months: a banker/county commissioner's persuasion; private-property rights group; and new zoning flipped Iowa county to yes on farmer's agrivoltaic, battery storage project. Julian Spector @canarymedia.com: bit.ly/3Ukrtl8

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @poweracleanfuture.bsky.social

@climate.skyfleet.blue Oct 11, 2026, 1:27 PMReposted by @saveohioparks.bsky.social

In New Mexico, a river runs through ‘the middle of a hellscape’ #Climate

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 5:38 PM

City of Cincinnati to host zoning meeting to regulate data centers.

Weigh in with your concerns Oct. 19.

Looks like communities are doing what Ohio lawmakers should have done on data centers: due diligence.

@neosierraclub.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
@ohiocitizen.org @wvxu.org

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:00 PM

ICYMI: @amyactonoh.bsky.social visits rural Ohio areas Democrats haven't been to in a while.

Listening to concerns about groundwater quality from fracking waste; rising gas, fertilizer costs; tariffs; Medicaid cuts providing traction: @jcarrsmyth.bsky.social @apnews.com: bit.ly/4eoRmqG

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:48 PM

Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibian populations have decreased 73 percent since 1970.

We must change food, energy and finance, says @worldwildlife.org. @kileyprice.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org: bit.ly/4jftAku

Ohio, let's do our part. Renewable energy now.

@ccbecker271.bsky.social

@bartfree.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:48 AMReposted by @saveohioparks.bsky.social

Could it be bribery?

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:46 PM

OPSB hearing: 5 gas plants already approved to power Meta Prometheus data centers in New Albany-- 3 through accelerated review-- with no public notice or hearing.

If approved, it will be 4th gas plant for this facility for a total of 1150 MW.

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @cleanairmoms-oh.bsky.social

$Save Ohio Parks board president Cathy Cowan Becker testified that NEO and other gas plants to power data centers are driving increased fracking of Ohio state parks and public lands. More than 15,000 acres of Egypt Valley Wildlife Area and Salt Fork State Park were approved this year, three times more land than in the previous three years combined.(Save Ohio Parks Photo)$

Mark Rylance testified about the likelihood of the AI bubble bursting, taking with it promised jobs and prosperity and leaving communities to clean up the mess.

If this takes place, he said it would also leave behind massive fossil fuel buildout no longer needed to power data centers. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)

Marilyn Welker, Urbana resident and founder of Simply Living, testified about the dangers of fine particulate matter to children, noting that 6,600 children live within three miles of where NEO is proposed to go.

She pointed out that the Meta gas plant Socrates South is now operational, so particulate matter is already spreading across the community. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)

New Albany resident Noah Malik listed pollutants from the NEO gas plant, including 3.5 million tons of greenhouse gas; 197 tons of fine particulate matter; 243 tons of nitrogen oxides; 172 tons of volatile organic chemicals; 189 tons of sulfur dioxide; 245 tons of carbon monoxide; and 40,200 of hazardous air pollutants such as benzene and formaldehyde.

He asked the power siting board to deny NEO to protect his community. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:10 PM

@saveohioparks.bsky.social at Ohio Power Siting Board New Albany gas plant hearing:

Will-Power OH will use inefficient equipment that will pollute, increase fracking Ohio public lands. @amiller78.bsky.social The Reporting Project: bit.ly/4epQiTx

@kentksmith.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:57 PM

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is slowing; Europe may freeze as temperatures rise.

Expert @rahmstorf.bsky.social: "stop dithering and delaying" on reducing emissions and phasing out fossil fuels. @ziaweise.bsky.social @politico.com: bit.ly/3TMuTgb

@kentksmith.bsky.social

@ohiocapitaljournal.com Oct 8, 2026, 11:00 PMReposted by @saveohioparks.bsky.social

Commentary: The Nov. 3 election is essentially a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the status quo. You either like the way things are going or you don’t. The outcome of this election will show as much about Ohio voters as it does the candidates on the ballot ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/08/t...

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:44 PM

60 attended Oct. 6 Ohio Power Board Siting hearing in New Albany for NEO gas plant to help power Meta Prometheus data center.

3 plants were approved with no public notice or hearing.

Why wasn't hearing held in Licking County, where gas plant would be built?

@ccbecker271.bsky.social

From left are Save Ohio Parks volunteers Cathy Cowan Becker, board president; Shannon Flanders of Westerville; and Rebecca Malik of New Albany.

Save Ohio Parks board member Malik testified about moving to Ohio from Washington, D.C., and choosing New Albany due in part to its beautiful environment. Now, she said, it's threatened by NEO and six other major gas plants approved and proposed to power data centers. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)

Mimi Plevin-Foust, board member of Faith Communities Together for a Sustainable Future (FaCT), spoke of her father, who grew up in Weirton, W.Va., which has ranked among U.S. cities with the worst air quality because of fine particulate matter.

He developed pulmonary fibrosis that killed him in his 70s. She said now that we've cleaned up air pollution, we should not release it again with gas to power data centers. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)

Molly Scott, nature educator at Healthy New Albany, asked the Ohio Power Siting Board how she should explain to the children she teaches that the state would approve a major gas plant, knowing the pollution it would create and the harm that pollution does to children and communities. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)

$Buckeye Environmental Network board member Greg Pace testified that NEO alone would create over 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of toxic, radioactive gas and oil fracking waste brine per year, which would be disposed of in Class II injections wells - where it often migrates into other wells and now threatens drinking water in Marietta. (Save Ohio Parks Photo)$

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:29 PM

Ohio should run data centers on 90% renewable energy, or ban them, says Scioto Valley analysis. @martyschladen.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com: bit.ly/4rQj5pS

Supermajority gave developers $2.3 B tax breaks already. The public has given enough.

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 1:35 PM

Rep. Kevin Ritter claims Ohio DNR is not transparent on toxic, radioactive gas and oil wastewater brine migration issue. Noah Perez-Johnson The Post: bit.ly/4rRclIe

Not just ODNR. Gov. Mike DeWine and supermajority.

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @kentksmith.bsky.social

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:21 AM

@saveohioparks.bsky.social among 60 residents, groups telling Ohio Power Siting Board to nix NEO gas plant for Meta Prometheus data center.

Permitting gas plants doesn't convey truth: they use our atmosphere as an open sewer: bit.ly/4rQNWTf

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @amyactonoh.bsky.social

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:19 AM

U.S. Supreme Court hears Suncor case against Boulder County Commissioners, who fined it for climate change damage. Opinion. Matthew Tajeda Real Clear Politics: bit.ly/4hI01FP

The question: who will pay-- fossil fuels corporations or the public?

@ccbecker271.bsky.social @neosierraclub.bsky.social

@altnps.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 3:30 AMReposted by @saveohioparks.bsky.social

A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.

@ohiocapitaljournal.com Oct 6, 2026, 3:30 PMReposted by @saveohioparks.bsky.social

In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." As it turns out, she isn't from Ohio and didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/06/w...

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:39 PM

If Ramaswamy is elected governor, Sen. Rob McColley will be his number two.

Recent calendar logs reveal calls, meetings with CEOs and corporate lobbyists like @anduriltech.bsky.social , @awscloud.bsky.social, SoftBank. Jake Zuckerman @signalohio.bsky.social: bit.ly/4rOZgzf

@ccbecker271.bsky.social

@saveohioparks.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:27 PM

Vivek Ramaswamy is invested millions in data centers, nearly doubling his net worth to $2.3 billion dollars since March 2025.

If he's elected, he'll continue to enrich himself from them. Opinion. @amyactonoh.bsky.social Enquirer @dispatch.com: bit.ly/4ybtmyx

@ccbecker271.bsky.social

Older posts