(Jul)  Archive - August, 2008  (Sep)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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8-31	East Lynn mining proposal questioned  -  Economic impact of coal lease cloudy for Wayne  - Bureau of Land Management’s draft report for East Lynn Lake mining proposal  -  Corps of Engineers’ written response to the draft report  - Map detailing the proposed mining area
8-31	Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Allegheny Energy remains on course with plan for power line in Washington, Greene counties
8-31	CALHOUNER'S URGED TO ATTEND RALLY OPPOSING HIGH-VOLTAGE LINE
8-31	Ohio: Port authority working to buy land for proposed Baard coal-to-liquid plant
8-31	Beckley mine museum depicts conditions in early coal mines
8-31	Sherritt delays plan to build coal gasification plant in Alberta
8-31	FPL touts nuclear energy as a renewable source
8-31	Methane gas oozing up from Siberian seabed: Swedish researcher
8-31	Arctic Ice May Reach Lowest Level on Record in September
8-31	Palin questioned whether global warming is melting Arctic ice
8-31	Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection
8-31	Time bomb in Arctic
8-31	Audubon announces fall schedule
8-30	The Enduring Allure of ‘Clean Coal’
8-30	Democrats Want Obama to Grow a Green, Clean Energy Economy   -   Democratic Nominee Obama Vows to Defeat Climate Change  - Energy, Environment Will Be Central to McCain-Palin Campaign - -  Sarah Palin: Tough on polar bears  -  Palin backs oil drilling in wildlife refuge  Palin - Not Convinced on Global Warming
8-30	September Washingtonian magazine: Trouble in Coal Country (not online)
8-30	Capito Gets $524,035 From Oil, Gas, Coal; Congresswoman's Spokesman Says Contributions Don't Drive Public Policy  -  Capito Likens Coal to Kryptonite; Congresswoman Says It Could Have a Negative Effect on OPEC Oil
8-30	Faith-Based Eco-Action
8-30	Massey must rehire ex-Horizon miners
8-30	Allegheny Power seeks rate increase
8-30	Impact of Mountaintop Mining/Valley Fill on the Stable Carbon Isotopic Composition and Concentration of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Headwater Streams
8-30	“Phase out energy subsidies” – UN
8-30	A Mainstream Environmentalist Calls for a Radical Shift
8-30	As wildfires spread, so does the red ink
8-30	Polar Bears Observed On Risky Open Ocean Swims
8-30	Sea-Ice Melt Imperils Walruses, and Economy Based on Them
8-30	Europeans urged by Nordic nations to protect Arctic
8-29	State probe continues in death of McDowell strip-mine trucker
8-29	Text of Barack Obama's acceptance speech  -  Al Gore's speech at Invesco Field  -  Inside Obama's green plan for energy and the economy
8-29	Chasing The Clean Coal Dragon:  A DNC Lobby Adventure
8-29	Xcel agreement dims coal's future, critics say  - Now The Good News
8-29	Latest filing in coal mine fight
8-29	China suspends all but two coal-to-oil projects
8-29	Nader assails coal burning during visit
8-29	Coral reefs need new protection to survive global warming
8-29	Lessons from Climate Camp
8-29	Meltdown in the Arctic: Polar icecap shrinking at an alarming rate
8-29	How the summer of shale changed the natural gas game
8-28	Some upset with mining agreement
8-28	The Battle to Save Coal River Mountain   -  The Life or Death of a Mountain   -  earth wind fire : energy consumption
8-28	Wind vs. Pundits
8-28	Coal Heats Up as a Political Issue
8-28	Wake Up, Democrats: Send Dirty Coal Packing
8-28	Kessler wants coal pledge from Obama-Biden ticket
8-28	The Democrats' Clean Energy Choice
8-28	Text of Rockefeller’s speech  -  Dems can take W.Va., Jay says -  The Corporate Convention
8-28	Rebuttal to Sen. Rockefeller's speech   - The myth of "clean" coal
8-28	West Virginia Coal Film Festival comes to Morgantown, Shepherdstown and Charleston
8-28	Ecocide in Appalachia
8-28	Discipline coming in Utah mine disaster; MSHA chief seeks Crandall Canyon report transcripts
8-28	Business leaders discuss challenges, opportunities in energy, education   -  State chamber opens annual summit
8-28	Coal officials reach out to new generations (while ignoring the peril of our generation--climate change)
8-28	National forests ordered to transfer funds; Fires force parks to move money to cover costs
8-28	Bush Administration Ignores Science-based Recovery Plan, Removes West Virginia Northern Flying Squirrel From Endangered Species List
8-28	Arctic sea ice drops to second lowest level on record
8-28	Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint, study says
8-28	Not-So-Permafrost: Big Thaw of Arctic Soil May Unleash Runaway Warming
8-28	Global Warming Examiner
8-28	Dispatch from Denver: Making Climate Change the Issue
8-28	State climate panel urges action (no, not the state of West Virginia; here the governor wants to build carbon dioxide plants (coal-to-liquid))
8-27	MSHA 'belt air' rule too weak, UMW says   -  Read more about belt air
8-27	Weekend in Wise
8-27	Please make switch to wind power, W.Va.   -  This is in response to Mr. McIlmoil's letter
8-27	Day 1 DNC: The ‘Clean Coal’ lie is everywhere
8-27	Rahall sees Obama as dedicated to ending war in Iraq
8-27	Schweitzer Speech Energizes the Convention
8-27	Alliance to focus on energy, overseas investing
8-27	Study predicts big impact for Mingo project (big impacts include massive release of greenhouse gases, more devastating extreme extraction (mountaintop removal), massive use of water, and a massive use of energy that makes the whole idea of squeezing coal into liquid nuts)
8-27	Crude Substitute: The Folly of Liquid Coal
8-27	Crow coal-to-lquid plant may use too much water
8-27	Rescue teams compete at mine academy
8-27	We Can't Break the Oil Addiction By Drilling for More Oil  -  Burning Down the House to Keep Warm
8-27	Drilling boom revives hopes for natural gas
8-27	Ken Hechler Honored for Protecting Coal Miners from Black Lung
8-27	States vary coal-based fuel offers
8-27	The Pitzers Keep Playing
8-27	Women of the ELCA lead the way
8-27	West Nile threat looms again in W.Va. county
8-27	Open cast mining in United Kingdom: Widow of man killed by coal truck seeks inquiry
8-27	Power-Sector Emissions Of China To Top U.S.
8-27	Lexington’s footprint on Norway’s glaciers
8-27	Scrapping Fuel Subsidies Can Help Climate
8-27	Climate Change Linked to Longer Pollen Seasons
8-27	Psychologists rally to fight climate change
8-27	Rising sea buries village
8-26	Biden brings focus on energy policy to Democratic ticket
8-26	Advocacy Group Makes $1.7M 'Clean' Coal Push  -  Interest groups join the party with top Dems   -  Execs Representing Coal-Fueled Electricity Industry Available for Comment On-Site During Democratic Convention
8-26	Liquefied-coal industry gains momentum (If so, then fried planet closer to reality)
8-26	Air Force to re-evaluate coal-to-liquid fuel project at Malmstrom
8-26	Green Election Issues 101: Global Warming
8-26	Shareholders Vote for Climate Change Resolutions in Record Numbers
8-25	Fifth Mining Death Could Result In Additional Training
8-25	Jesus would cry for mining destruction (scroll down)
8-25	Big coal's big time lobby
8-24	Coal Film Festivals around the state this fall
8-23	Restore Power to the People
8-23	Coal-Dusted Water
8-23	Train strip miners for new, stable jobs (scroll down)
8-22	West Virginian advocates push to build a wind farm on a proposed mountaintop removal site
8-22	Compromise comes out on top
8-22	Support windmills in West Virginia, not mountaintop removal, valley fills
8-22	Hearing Delayed On Massey Energy Insurance Coverage In Suit
8-22	States Vary Coal-Based Fuel Offers
8-22	Coal Forum Focuses on Future of Energy
8-22	Massey Energy Releases Inaugural "Corporate Social Responsibility Report"
8-22	Wind power or mountaintop removal?
8-21	Deal reached in mountaintop mining dispute; notice remains in question
8-21	Mary Wildfire: Coal-to-liquids is bad for environment and W.Va.
8-21	Winning with wind: Hope for Coal River Mountain
8-20	Aspen hosting green forum starting on Thursday
8-20	Coal Forum seeks middle ground between environmentalists, producers
8-20	ICG settles Sago lawsuit; Cases still pending in 8 deaths
8-20	Fixing High Oil Prices (Oil company propaganda from an "EnergyBiz Insider")
8-19	Dueling PR campaigns compete for coal's fate; One backs industry, other likes wind power  -  Wind to keep the lights on in the state?
8-19	How Wind Farms May Really Replace Coal Mining -  Wind resources  -  Make the Coal River wind farm a reality (scroll down)
8-19	Coal forum discusses W.Va.'s role in energy debate
8-19	Coal-to-liquids is bad for environment and W.Va.
8-19	Coal burning may make food supplies toxic  -  Coal's toxic legacy to the Arctic
8-19	Rockefeller Can Promote Coal
8-19	Carbon dioxide storage test begins in SW Va.
8-19	Coal king Peabody cleans up
8-19	Black lung anniversary celebration planned
8-19	Chamber cheap shot
8-19	Does Coal kill Hope?
8-19	Appeals court upholds sentence of coal operator
8-19	Dominion on the hook in fly ash dispute
8-19	Understanding air pollution in the mountains
8-19	China: 17 miners confirmed killed in coal mine accidents
8-19	Rich Urged to Set Deep Climate Cuts, Without US
8-19	Stark warning on Britain's shrinking coast
8-18	Mingo County: Projects on track
8-18	Mining opportunity drawing hundreds to western Kentucky
8-18	The sacrifice-free election strategy
8-18	Don't forget to invite the artists to your next protest!
8-18	Letters to the editor in the Charleston Gazette: Power line foes deemed irrelevant - Wind power leaves hills unchanged
8-18	Letter to the editor in Beckley Register Herald (scroll down):  Let’s lead the way into clean energy future
8-18	Blast in China coal mine traps 24 miners
8-18	Put yourself in a new cosmology
8-17	Going Solar Goes Mainstream
8-17	Forget seven generations: Tribes gamble on coal, despite climate risks
8-17	Waste coal in PA: DEP says Robinson plant must limit pollutants
8-17	Alaska: Battle over mining reveals strange bedfellows
8-17	Scientists tie warming to heavy rain
8-17	Increased risk of catastrophic wildfires: Global warming's wake up call for the Western US
8-17	Energy: How dirty is your power supplier?