On September 22nd and 23rd Third Act Ohio joined other environmental and faith groups to protest the Marcellus Shale Coalition Conference in Erie, PA from air, land and sea (well, lake). This annual conference is sponsored by EQT, owners of The Mountain Valley Pipeline, Infinity, who is fracking under Salt Fork State Park, MPLX owned by Ohio based Marathon, Exxon and many others. Inside the conference, attendees gleefully celebrated the surging demand for natural gas from the buildout of data centers and LNG exports with no regards for impacts. We were present to bear witness to the harms caused by this greed from the epicenter of Ohio River Valley Appalachian communities to the climate chaos and catastrophes being experienced around the world on this heating planet.
You can view a livestream of the protest here. Listen at 14:42 to Third Actor Jess Grim’s explanation of the impacts of these large non-ohio corporations fracking in our communities and under our state parks while also welcoming fracking waste from neighboring states to be injected in Ohio wells.