Tag: Coal

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Hoots and Hollers Vivian Apr 4, 2014
Take Action: Help Gainesville Off MTR-Coal
On April 17, Gainesville City Commissioner Lauren Poe will direct City staff to take the initial steps to formally end GRU's relationship with strip-mined coal from Appalachia. You can read more details on our website, but here's how you can help us win: More
Issues: Coal, Mountaintop removal

Hoots and Hollers Kerry Chad Albright Feb 4, 2014
Thoughts on the Chemical / Water Crisis from the Buffalo Creek Miracle Baby
This is possibly the slowest holocaust In history. It's actually quite brilliant. They've managed to put the gas chambers directly in your house. The best way to hide a chamber is by placing it in plain sight. We all know that from the hidden government bunkers at The Greenbrier Hotel. Unfortunately the site this time is your own home. More
Issues: Coal, Health

Newsletter OVEC Dec 1, 2013
Winds of Change, December 2013
Perhaps those buried in the Jarrell Family Cemetery can rest a little easier now. In August, family members of the deceased filed a lawsuit in Boone County Court aimed at repairing and protecting the cemetery from further desecration. More
Issues: Cemetery protection, Coal, Pollution, Renewable energy, Water

Hoots and Hollers Dan Nov 23, 2013
Past Time for Real Energy Game Changer
As mentioned in the news, OVEC and other environmental groups are troubled by the potential impacts of the proposed cracker plant in Wood County, W. Va. on both air and water quality, just as we are troubled by the gas fracking process as a whole More
Issues: Coal, Energy efficiency, Marcellus Shale, Renewable energy

Hoots and Hollers Betty Dotson-Lewis Nov 10, 2013
Black Lung Victims, Sacrificial Lambs of Coalfields
A Center for Public Integrity reporter, Chris Hamby, conducted a yearlong investigation into the failed Black Lung Benefit package awarded to disabled coalminers in 1969 legislation. ABC News and Nightline aired a form of this three-part series revealing startling, unethical measures used to help defeat the miner and his widow in their weakest hour. These methods, driven by money from coal companies, involve the biggest and oldest law firm in West Virginia, Jackson- Kelly and a renowned medical center, John Hopkins University. Actions by these revered groups were clandestine and protected by politician and policy. More
Issues: Coal, Health, Pollution

Hoots and Hollers Vivian Nov 8, 2013
Keeper of the Mountains President Speaks Out on St. Mary’s and Unclean Coal
To encourage clean coal propaganda is to be complicit in the sickness, suffering and deaths of thousands of Appalachians. It is shameful for a hospital whose primary function should be the health of its community. More
Issues: Coal, Health, Mountaintop removal, Social justice

Hoots and Hollers Vivian Nov 7, 2013
Retired Miner Blasts St. Mary’s for Hosting Coal Lobby Group Head
By hosting the American Coalition for "Clean Coal" Electricity (ACCCE), St. Mary's Center of Education is promoting dirty energy that inflicts serious health impairments on the public. This mirrors what John Hopkins Medical Center is doing (or was doing until days ago when they were exposed)-- creating a major road block for miners with black lung, who are being denied their rightful benefits for a disease that is taking the lives of thousands of miners. More
Issues: Coal, Health, Mountaintop removal, Social justice

Hoots and Hollers Robin Blakeman Oct 12, 2013
See You in October
Three events in late October which OVEC friends, members and new contacts should plan to attend. More
Issues: Cemetery protection, Climate change, Coal, Mountaintop removal, Social justice

Hoots and Hollers Vivian Sep 5, 2013
Not the Kind of White Water that Attracts Tourists
20130905_untitled_0004-3 The clear-looking (but mining-impacted) West Fork joins the visible gunk in the Pond Fork, all heading downstream to rise of the Litte Coal River in Madison. Photo by Vivian Stockman OVEC organizer and Boone County, W.Va. resident Maria Gunnoe was taking a child to the school bus this morning when they both saw Pond Fork running white. The children waiting for the bus where very agitated, worried what this meant for the river. Maria worried what does this mean for thechildren… what does this latest incident mean for everyone who lives downstream, everyone subjected to ongoing, accumulating coal-related pollution More
Issues: Coal, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Water

Hoots and Hollers Dustin White Apr 25, 2013
A Child’s World
     I stood behind the table watching the young girl study the images.  Her long dirty-blonde hair glistened in the sun and swayed in the chilly breeze.  She must have been around eleven or twelve.  She spoke softly to her younger brother.  He was about seven or eight but you could see his young […] More
Issues: Coal, EPA, Health, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Social justice, Water

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Apr 18, 2013
The Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Mining
In 2011 a group of researchers from West Virginia University and Washington State University published a study on the association between exposure to mountaintop removal (MTR) mining and the increased rate of birth defects in Central Appalachia. More
Issues: Coal, Health, Mountaintop removal