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Winds of Change
December 2003

Contents

OVEC's Win in Clean Water Act Case Has Nationwide and MTR Permit Implications

Ode to Massey Coal - How to Do Energy All Wrong

Granny D, Doris Haddock: On the Road Again!

Massey Coal Ordered to Monitor for Mercury, Other Toxics

On the Road to Change

Florence and Goliath, or, Standing Up for What's Right

Flat Land, or Flat Out Lie?

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Arouses Passionate Comments During Comment Period

Your EIS Comments - Big Brother at OSM Is Watching Us!

Corps Idea of "Minimal Impact" Challenged in Court

Jack Spadaro's Story:
Work for MSHA, Tell
the Truth, Get Fired

WV Supreme Court Agrees to Hear OVEC Member's Case Against Arch Coal

Mountaintop Removal Mining Photos

Another Massive Massey Sludge Impoundment Proposed

Global Warming Topic of Annual Conference on the Environment

Guess What? Those Rules SAVE $$$

Even AEP knows global warming is real!

Sludge Impoundments in Spotlight - Again

Meet the New Boss at the EPA - the Same As the Old Boss at the EPA ... Sigh ...

On Getting Along

Just Say NO to Mountaintop Removal / Valley Fills in Papua, New Guinea

They Get It in California...

Remembering Laura - Memorial Fund Helps Her Passion Live On

Gifts That Give Twice - Just in Time for the Holidays!

OVEC - in ACTION

Miscellany

Web Extra Articles Below
(not in printed newsletter)

Six Million and One Reasons Why West Virginia Needs Clean Elections

Coal-bed methane attracts Halliburton to West Virginia

Public deserves a real
solution to slurry spills


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Gifts That Give Twice -
Just in Time for the Holidays!

This holiday season, why not give gifts that give twice? Support OVECs work and give cool gifts by purchasing OVEC merchandise. Have we got some choices for you!

OVECs 2003 Tree Huggers Ball
Organic Cotton T-Shirts

This years T-shirts feature our logo as interpreted by artist Joe Lung and with a quote by Helen Keller:

"This is a time for a loud voice, open speech, and fearless thinking.
I rejoice that I live in such a splendidly disturbing time."

Sizes, styles and colors available:
Short Sleeve - $15
Long Sleeve - $18

Small in True Blue
Medium in Cypress
Medium in Pacific Blue
Large in Cypress & True Blue
Large in Blue Black & Pacific Blue
XL in Black & Cypress XL in Blue Black & Pacific Blue
XXL in Cypress - $18

 

Ball Caps and Bags

OVEC Ball Caps - $10
OVEC Canvas Totes - $10 OVEC
Canvas Totes with Zippers
- $20

 

Coffee - Who DOESN'T Need This?

Fair Trade Coffee - $10 for 16 ounces, whole bean only in a stay-fresh pouch. From our friends in Chiapas, Mexico, via our fellow Leadership for a Changing World Award winners, Tona Tierra in Phoenix, Ariz.

 

Collectible Glass Ornaments

We still have available a limited number of delicate, hand-blown West Virginia glass holiday ornaments made especially for OVEC. For the past four years, OVEC offered these beautiful items to help raise funds for our "Stop Mountaintop Removal!" campaign. Every ornament in this exclusive, collectible series features West Virginia plants and animals whose habitat is destroyed by mountaintop removal.

Unfortunately, both glassworks where Kelsey Murphy and Bob Bomkamp created these beauteous bulbs are now closed. But that makes our 2001 and 2002 ornaments even more collectible!

The 2002 edition Glassworks, Inc. (Weston, WV) ornaments feature the Wood Thrush in amber and the Jack-in-the-Pulpit in amethyst: $40 each or two for $75. The 2001 Pilgrim Glass, Inc. (Huntington, WV) ornaments feature Bloodroot in white and Cerulean Warbler in cobalt: $45 each or two for $85.

All proceeds for this merchandise (above costs) support OVECs efforts to protect West Virginias mountains, streams and mountain communities. To order, call the office at (304) 522-0246 or e-mail vivian@ohvec.org. For local folks, well try to arrange for pick up or drop off. Please add $5 for shipping (if you are ordering several items at once, call ahead for the shipping costs). Thanks for making your holiday giving more meaningful!


2002 ornaments: Wood Thrush, left, and Jack-in-the-Pulpit, right

 
2001 ornaments, Bloodroot, left, and Cerulean Warbler, right

 

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