In Ohio: Kasich reverses on fracking in state parks: Legislators call for investigation into ODNR pl
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- Feb 21, 2014
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By Darrel Rowland and The Columbus Dispatch Will Drabold The Columbus Dispatch Wednesday February 19, 2014 6:12 AM
Less than three years after signing legislation opening up Ohio state parks and forests to fracking, Gov. John Kasich now opposes the controversial horizontal drilling for oil and gas on public lands.
“At this point, the governor doesn’t support fracking in state parks,” Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols told The Dispatch. “We reserve the right to revisit that, but it’s not what he wants to do right now, and that’s been his position for the past year and a half.”
Word of Kasich’s reversal came the same day Democratic lawmakers called for an investigation of a marketing plan to promote fracking on state lands that was put together a year and a half ago by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which regulates oil and gas drilling.
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