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Natural Gas production is causing a huge sore to form in northeastern Ohio. Folks are decimated as the nation continues to intensify local production of fossil fuels from unconventional sources, such as literally squeezing gas out of rock with the new technique Hydraulic Fracturing, or fracking for short. Groundwater has been contaminated by natural gas drilling activities, examples include Sublette County, Wyoming and Dimock, Pennsylvania. The oil and gas industry is exempt from federal hazardous waste regulations, as well as parts of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, and others, as given by an in depth "report on oil and gas exemptions" by the Environmental Working Group.

Greg Owens, his pregnant fiancé Keesha Rutherford, and his mother and father, who live together in a small mobile home are about to be evicted on December 30th at 12 Noon. With dangerously cold temperatures, this family residing in Mt. Gilead,OH will have no place to keep warm, for no crime other than an inability to pay their bills.

However, unlike the countless others who have found themselves in similar situations, the Owens family has decided not to go quietly. They have made it clear that casting a pregnant woman, her future husband, and their parents out in the cold of winter, regardless of how unprofitable it is for a rich landlord is still wrong, still an injustice, and needs to be countered and opposed.