{"id":31274,"date":"2018-02-20T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31274"},"modified":"2018-02-20T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T13:50:00","slug":"dennis-kucinich-vows-to-end-all-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-ohio-if-elected-governor-and-then-take-the-industry-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31274","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Kucinich Vows to End All Oil and Gas Drilling in Ohio if Elected Governor and Then Take the Industry to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DENNIS KUCINICH VOWS TO END ALL OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN OHIO IF ELECTED GOVERNOR AND THEN TAKE THE INDUSTRY TO COURT<\/a><\/h3>\n
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THE MAN WHO<\/u> saved Cleveland \u2014 and paid the ultimate political price for it \u2014 now wants to do the same for Ohio.<\/p>\n

Dennis Kucinich, the boy mayor of Cleveland who went on to serve nearly two decades in Congress, is running for governor on a platform of radical change to\u00a0how the energy industry\u00a0operates in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cFresh water and clean water are not negotiable issues,\u201d Kucinich told The Intercept, pointing to the water contamination associated with oil and gas drilling. \u201cThey\u2019re not negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a press conference in late January, the Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate unveiled one of the most cutting-edge environmental platforms of any candidate in the country. Kucinich\u00a0called<\/a> for a total end to oil and gas extraction in the state of Ohio.<\/p>\n

To accomplish this, he would deploy a battery of radical policies. He would, for instance, utilize eminent domain to seize control of oil and gas wells throughout the state and then shutter them. He would block all new drilling permits and order a total ban on injection wells.<\/p>\n

Kucinich would also deploy the Ohio State Highway Patrol to stop and turn away vehicles that possess fracking waste. Under a Kucinich administration, Ohio would give subsidized health screens to residents living near fracking sites; that data would then be used to file a class-action lawsuit against fracking companies similar to how states took Big Tobacco to court in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n

The former Ohio\u00a0member of Congress made his mark in the state\u2019s politics\u00a0when he was elected mayor of Cleveland at the age of 31, making him the youngest mayor of any major city in America.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Tony Dejak\/AP DENNIS KUCINICH VOWS TO END ALL OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN OHIO IF ELECTED GOVERNOR AND THEN TAKE THE INDUSTRY TO COURT THE MAN WHO saved Cleveland \u2014 and paid the ultimate political price for it \u2014 now wants to do the same for Ohio. Dennis Kucinich, the boy mayor of Cleveland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14512,2498,5567,13843],"class_list":["post-31274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-dennis-kucinich","tag-ohio","tag-the-intercept","tag-zaid-jilani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31275,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31274\/revisions\/31275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}