EID's Dan and Shawn report on the misleading and dangerous claims a Youngstown anti-development activist made at a Youngstown City Council meeting in September:

"This October, the Youngstown City Council invited Rhonda Reda, Executive Director of the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program, to present to the council an “oil and gas 101” to obtain a background information and a better understanding of oil and gas development.

While the meeting met the objective of the Council, it unfortunately also drew a number of disruptions from activists affiliated with “Frack Free Mahoning”, an anti-fossil fuel organization that has protested oil and gas representatives and industry events on a number of occasions. One of these disruptions resulted in an arrest.

At the Youngstown event Elizabeth Khumprakob, 30, began screaming over Ms. Reda early into her presentation. The outburst was addressed by the council members, who asked the young woman to be respectful of the speaker – a request she ignored, prompting Councilman Mike Ray to request that security remove her from the meeting.

Aside from vocally disrupting the meeting, Ms. Khumprakob removed a jar of what she claimed to be brine – or “hazardous material” as she phrased it – which she indicated came from a disposal well near her house.

As she was escorted from the premises, she left the jar on a table inside the council room, enclosed in a paper bag.
As the presentation continued, a fire chief for the City Office Building came into the room. It would later come to light the activist had placed a call to 911 to report “hazardous material” in the council chambers.

Upon finishing her presentation, Rhonda Reda spoke with the fire chief and offered to test the contents of the jar, and proceeded to do so at the fire chief and Councilman Ray’s request.

BioSolutions, LLC of Chagrin Falls, OH, analyzed the contents, and returned a report with interesting results.

The analysis showed the fluid certainly was NOT hazardous, but rather had a composition completely unrelated to any aspect of oil and gas development. And, it appears to be wholly man (or woman) made."

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