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Contents
Sludged Sick: Telling Our Stories in the State Capitol
New Court Order Sought to Block Three More MTR Permits in WV
Not Just Any Thursday
Somethings in the Water
The TRUE Costs of Coal
Buffalo Creek: It Should Never Have Happened
Living With Sludge, Living With Fear
Redefining Mine Safety - Inside and Outside the Mines
Book on MTR's Horrors Reviewed

Proposed Campaign Financing Act Would Mean Clean Elections in WV
Voter Beware: Watching the Paper Trail Vital to Make Sure YOUR Vote Counts
WV Senator Pushes Publicly Funded Campaigns Starting With 2008 Election
Coal Has Given Millions to Candidates, Report Says
Injecting Coal Wastes Underground Harmful, Not Well Regulated in WV
On the Scene at Sago
The Toll from Coal
A Discredited Regime
The Worst Environmental President in US History
Our Voices Are Being Heard Nationally and Internationally!
Net Metering: Grassroots Energy Generation for Everyone
Strange Questions: When Just Listening Can Be Viewed as A Threat
Chilling Dissent: FBI Collecting Research Reports on Enviro Groups
Intact Forests Worth TRILLIONS

We Cant Wait on Warming, Bushs Do-Nothing Policy Unacceptable

Global Warming: Seven Hard Realities for Americans
Almost LEVEL, West Virginia
Sustainable Development: Help Send A Coalfield Delegation to the UN
Coalfield Residents Banding Together to Save School From Impoundment
The CARTOONS - A Common Theme Emerges

THANKS

Healing Mountains: The 16th annual Heartwood Forest Council and the 6th annual Summit for the Mountains
OVECs Annual Meeting and Spaghetti Dinner Fund-Raiser
They Say Nuke Like Its a Good Thing


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Winds of Change Newsletter, February 2006     See sidebar for table of contents

THANKS

Thank You! to:

  • To Boy Scout Troop 50 of Chesapeake, Ohio.
  • The Lost Communities of Mingo County for demanding that state government find them. Lost No More!
  • Rt. 85 and Rt. 17 residents who have shared their concerns about mountaintop removal, who are making their voices heard.
  • To the folks in McDowell County for moving their legislator to support Sludge Safety.
  • Joan Linville, Steve White, Jim and Jean Foster, C. B. and Cynthia Huffman for caring and doing.
  • Michael Morrison and Jesse Mwaura for their help so far with the Sludge Safety Project mailing.
  • Terry & Wilma Steele, Carol & Walter Young, RB and Nannette & Paul Nelson for use of your homes for staying overnight and meetings.
  • Ernie Brown, Debbie Sammons, Billy Sammons, Maude Rice, Donetta Blankenship, Lisa Blankenship, Terry Steele, Walter Young, Joan Linville, Vernon Haltom, Mary Miller, Pauline Canterberry, Kathryn Stone, Ron Wilkerson, Julian Martin, Regina Hendrix, Bill Price, Denver Mitchell, Dennis Sparks, Jeff Allen, Patricia Lynn Feeney, and Tracy Adkins for a great and moving meeting with legislators about Sludge Safety.
  • Michael Morrison, Larry Gibson, Joan Linville and Bill Price for help with a literature drop.
  • Carmelitta Brown, Ernie Brown and Billy Sammons for meeting with the governors legislative aide Jim Pettrillo.
  • Walter & Carol Young, Leroy Runyon and RS for your work on Sludge Safety Project.
  • Adam Brown for your help with the Mountain Defender.
  • Joan Linville, Mary Miller, Pauline Canterbury, Mike Morrison and Regina Hendrix for help with outreach on the Buffalo Creek Flood films.
  • And to Gracie, for her wise counsel and excellent layout skills.

Congratulations to all our volunteers. Yall have put in over 300 person hours in the first three weeks of this year. Way to go!

Congratulations to all the hard working Mingo County folks, for your recent victory in getting the emergency alert system for sludge impoundments. Keep up the good work!
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