Desperate Anti-Fracking Wayne Forest Campaign Tries to Use #NODAPL to Revive Interest
Wednesday November 30, 2016
Fringe anti-fracking activists, feeling a bit desperate after their failed attempt to ban fracking in the Wayne National Forest, are now calling on “national and international voices” to try to stop oil and gas development.
Recently, two Ohio activists tried to make a big deal about the fact that they’ve been recruiting activists from California to lobby their cause in Washington, D.C. against development in the Wayne National Forest. Those California folks come from a group called SprouTogether and one of its activists, Nathaniel McCarthy, created a petition on Change.org to “Stop the Auctioning of Wayne National Forest for Oil” and recently delivered it to the BLM.
Activists boasted that they had collected over 90,000 signatures, but how many were actually from Ohio? Well, their media stunt put their desperation in the spotlight as the activists openly admitted they had no choice but to recruit help “from all over the world.” As Roxanne Groff, leader of the Athens County Fracking Action Network stated,
“When over 90,000 people weigh in from all over the world (and) not just Ohio, that’s an outcry from all over to say climate change is an issue that must be dealt with.”
The level of support, especially from Ohioans, is pretty obvious in the following picture taken at the “rally.”
Photo: from SprouTogether Facebook page shows t...
