Restaurant plans anti-fracking campaign

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Olive, an urban dive is taking a tasty political stance.

The downtown restaurant is raising money to fight unsafe fracking practices in Ohio through a weekly lunch special.

On “Frack Your Diet Fridays,” Olive will serve comfort food and donate 5 percent of lunch sales to the cause.

“Help us help the people with a voice to protect our water, our land, and the health of our people and livestock. Frack your Diet Fridays, it’s the tasty way to fight environmental crime,” restaurant operators posted on the Olive Facebook page.

Hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, is the process of injecting pressurized fluid into rock reservoirs to extract oil and natural gas. The process generates chemical-tempered wastewater, which is then dumped back into disposal wells.

Last month, the state put a moratorium on injection wells amid concerns the wells were causing earthquakes.

Owner Kimberly Collett in July opened Olive in the former Wympee building on Third Street.