Would You Drink this Water!

The Ohio Chapter Gas and Oil Fracking Committee is comprised of a core team of Sierra Club members from across the state working in cooperation with partner organizations to protect Ohioans from the impacts of Horizontal hydraulic Fracturing Drilling “Fracking”.

We empowers citizens to protect their communities locally while supporting a statewide moratorium until fracking’s impacts are studied and until we believe that safe and effective regulation will prevent unacceptable harm to wildlife,  human health,  water,  air,  and property values.

Tell Your Ohio Legislature to support a Moratorium on Fracking!

Drilling rig in Washington Co. P.A.

Fracking Drill Rig

The experiences of other states, such as neighboring Pennsylvania and West Virginia, have shown us that poor regulation of this heavy industry can have devastating effects on our water, air, forests and ecosystems.


Learn the Facts on Fracking, visit the Resource page!

We are working with our member activists and other groups across the state to:

  • Educate Ohioans about this unfamiliar, yet potentially very damaging, new technology.
  • Enact local community and county bans on fracking in support of an intended state-wide moratorium until US EPA issues their final report on an ongoing study of fracking’s effects on fresh water supplies.
  • Improve Ohio’s statutes and enforcement to comprehensively and intensively regulate this newly developed technology, so that we may learn from the mistakes of others and avert similar tragedies here.
  • Overturn the recently enacted Drill the Parks legislation and preserve the few remaining forests and public space we have, and protect our watersheds including Lake Erie.
  • Promote Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as the real long term answers to America’s addictive dependence on fossil fuels, and to rejuvenate Ohio’s industrial economic base.

Go to this page for more information on Fracking.

Check out our water monitoring program.

Contact  Dave Simons, Gas and Oil Fracking Committee Chair, or Ben Shapiro, Gas and Oil Fracking Committee Co-Chair, for more information and to get involved.