To the Editor:
 
Bowling Green City Council had to roll over for the powerful gun lobby to allow guns in the City Park.

Do we now also have to roll over for the powerful oil and gas lobby to let Spectra’s Nexus pipeline go
under city property? (Or, for that matter, commissioners, anywhere through Wood County?)
Over the visible, unstable Bowling Green fault?
Under the Maumee River — Bowling Green’s drinking water source?
So Spectra can sell gas in Canada?
When city officials are tasked to pass zoning and criminal ordinances to protect all city-owned property,
both inside and outside the city limits? [Chapter 13; Section 13.01 of Bowling Green’s Codified
Ordinances.]
When both local and federal experts report that (1) Wood County is riddled with unstable underground
karst geology with mostly “very poor quality bedrock … that is characterized by extreme fracturing”
and that (2) “…the risk level associated with the proposed crossing of the Maumee River is high” and
that (3) the proposed pipeline construction is likely to create caverns and sinkholes that “… could
possibly damage the Maumee River.”
Sounds pretty scary to me.
Would it be at all possible, in these David and Goliath situations, for city council, somehow, to rise up
and say no, again, to something that is so wrong? That endangers our water supply?
Could we heed the spirit of the Declaration of Independence? When government is wrong, “… it is the
people’s right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”
Or the Ohio Constitution, Section 1.02: “All political power is inherent in the people. They have the
right to alter, reform or abolish government, whenever they may deem it necessary.”
Or is it just roll over time again?
Hey. If we have to roll over, go ahead and let the pipeline people bully us into court. Agree to settle
on Day One. No cost to the city. Nexus may get its way, but Bowling Green will have stuck up for what we
know is right. And pipeline people everywhere will sit up and take notice.
Sally Medbourne Mott
Bowling Green