Articles About citizens rights

• Council puts drilling ban on hold for now

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 16, 2012

  At the Aug. 6 Village Council meeting, a group of citizens urged Council to be the first municipality in the state to ban oil and gas drilling in town in an effort to protect local water.

• Council considers drilling ordinance— Ban would be first in Ohio

  By Megan BachmanAugust 9, 2012

  Yellow Springs, though far from the epicenter of natural gas fracking in Ohio, could nevertheless become the first town in the state to ban all oil and gas drilling and waste wells within its municipal limits through passage of what is described as rights-based legislation.