Tag: Fracking

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Hoots and Hollers OVEC Jun 3, 2016
Get Local in Joining Frack Free America Day of Action June 7
Frackfree America has declared June 7 a Frack Free America Day of Action. We encourage you to get local in joining this national action by engaging in some type of public, legal and peaceful way of declaring your neighborhood and/or community’s aversion to gas fracking encroachment. You could host a “toxic tea party” or a silent or prayer vigil. We've got other ideas, too... More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Rogersville Shale

Press Release OVEC Jun 3, 2016
Farmers Join Cowboy & Indian Alliance to Plant “Seeds of Resistance” along path of Atlantic Coast & Mountain Valley Pipelines
You are cordially invited to a gathering in Monroe County on Wednesday, June 8 at 9 a.m., during which sacred Indian Ponca corn will be planted in resistance to the MVP pipeline. This landmark event will take place at Patricia A. “Cookie” Cole’s Blue Roamin’ Farm, located near the Salt Sulphur Historic District. More
Issues: Fracking, Pipelines

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Jun 3, 2016
Bike for Bill: Fracking Awareness Cross-Country Tour On Now
We are calling a cross-country bike trek the Bike for Bill because funds raised will support Bill Hughes' most excellent outreach on fracking impacts here in West Virginia. More
Issues: Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines

Hoots and Hollers Janet Keating Jun 1, 2016
You Did It!
You did it! YOU DID IT! Together WE did it! Thank you for the out-pouring of generosity to help OVEC meet its $20,000 challenge grant goals. More
Issues: Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Renewable energy, Social justice

Hoots and Hollers Janet Keating May 27, 2016
OVEC Reaches Matching Grant Goal!
Together, we did it! Thank you! With the generous support of OVEC’s donors/members, from on-line donations, cash, checks and pledges, you all have helped us meet and exceed the $20,000 challenge grant goal from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation. Whether you donated $10 or $500, your gift has already made a difference! More
Issues: Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Renewable energy, Social justice

Hoots and Hollers OVEC May 19, 2016
Ongoing #RubberStampRebellion
An update on the OVEC crew's participation in Beyond Extreme Energy's (BXE) ongoing #RubberStampRebellion, with shots or the skit in front of the US International Trade Commission. More
Issues: Climate change, Energy, Energy efficiency, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Renewable energy, Transition economy

Hoots and Hollers OVEC May 18, 2016
Wildfire, Wilsons at BXE’s #RubberStampRebellion
We work to move beyond extreme extraction in all sorts of ways, and this week that includes working with Beyond Extreme Extraction (BXE). Volunteers Mary Wildfire and Brenda and Robin Wilson are in D.C. right now, taking part in BXE's #RubberStampRebellion. They are there to tell to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): Stop rubber-stamping gas industry permit applications and change the way you operate. Prioritize the emergence of wind, solar and other renewables above fossil fuels. We say: No New Permits! More
Issues: Fracking, Pipelines

Hoots and Hollers OVEC May 10, 2016
Update on the Environmental Songwriting Contest
Several months ago we told you about the Environmental Songwriting Contest With Cash Prizes.  Use the power of music to address some of the most important issues of our time, and please help spread the word: A message from the Connecticut Songwriters Association: Calling All Songwriters: The international Environmental Songwriting Contest, sponsored by the CT Songwriters Association, is […] More
Issues: Climate change, Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Water

Hoots and Hollers Mary Wildfire May 7, 2016
Come to the Rubberstamp Rebellion: Ride with Us, Tell Off FERC
Join us for a ride to the Rubberstamp Rebellion at FERC headquarters in D.C. Tell FERC to stop rubberstamping pipelines! More
Issues: FERC, Fracking, Pipelines

Action Alert Vivian May 5, 2016
One to Retire, So One to Hire; Challenge is On; More: An OVEC Action Alert
Support Our Work: Donate Recent Alerts View this alert online Janet’s Retiring, So OVEC is Hiring OVEC’s long-time Executive Director Janet Keating will retire this fall. So, we are hiring a new ED. We’re taking applications until June 1. Click here for all the info you need to apply, or to share this info with […] More
Issues: Fracking, Pipelines, Sustainability, Transition economy

Hoots and Hollers Janet Keating May 3, 2016
Great Gibson Custom Guitar Up for Grabs
This Gibson Custom guitar, built with sustainable Chechen wood, is in excellent condition and ready to be played. It was built in 1994 and is signed by the builders, master luthiers Ren Ferguson and John Walker. More
Issues: Fracking

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Apr 19, 2016
April 20 Hearing on Fracking Waste Injection Permit
Short notice: Public hearing April 20! In an earlier blog we noted: The Beckley Register-Herald reports: “A Department of Environmental Protection permit application renewal for an underground injection control well used to dispose of oil and natural gas waste in the Trap Hill area of Raleigh County is open for public comment…” More details on […] More
Issues: DEP, Fracking, Water

Hoots and Hollers Vivian Apr 18, 2016
Earth Day(s) Activities Going on This Week, and to End of Month; Vote!
April’s greening of the land is here and so are Earth Day events, to help us learn about ways to green up our lives and our communities. If you are in Huntington, Charleston or Parkersburg we hope you will join OVEC at these events: April 20: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Earth Day at MU Student Center Plaza. OVEC […] More
Issues: Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Renewable energy, Social justice, Water

Action Alert Vivian Apr 14, 2016
April Actions Bring Satisfactions – Take Part!
Support Our Work: Donate Recent Alerts View this alert online   Double Your Impact: Donate for Our Challenge Grant If you read our action alerts, then you know we don’t often ask for donations, but we do actually alert you to actions you can take to make a difference for the water, air, land, and our […] More
Issues: Coal, Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Social justice

Hoots and Hollers Janet Keating Apr 6, 2016
Double Your Impact: Donate for Our Challenge Grant
For each and every donation that we receive between now and June 1, OVEC will receive a dollar-for-dollar match of up to $20,000! In other words, to be eligible for this $20,000 gift, we must raise $20,000. Please donate here. More
Issues: Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Renewable energy, Social justice

Newsletter OVEC Mar 28, 2016
Winds of Change, Spring 2016
In December, OVEC organized a one-day, statewide meeting called It’s A Gas at Jackson’s Mill 4-H Camp, which was attended by representatives of organizations across West Virginia working on various aspects of deep shale oil and gas “development.” More
Issues: Aboveground storage tanks, Climate change, Coal, Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Water

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Mar 14, 2016
Fayette County: March for Common Sense Water Testing, March 18
#KidsNeedCleanWater March for Common Sense Water Testing Friday, March 18 at noon in Fayetteville, WV A call to action from Headwaters Defense We are marching from the Fayette County Courthouse lawn to the Department of Health to demand that the DHHR conduct comprehensive water testing at the Fayetteville Elementary School. Throughout Fayette County there have been numerous […] More
Issues: Fracking, Health, Pollution, Water

Hoots and Hollers OVEC Mar 7, 2016
SB 601 Would Make It Easier to Build Drilling Waste Landfills, Hurt Local SWAs
please call or email your delegates and tell them that SB 601 is bad because the Public Service Commission's oversight is important, and prevents unneeded waste dumps from being built. However, the oil and gas provisions are not the only concern. SB 601 also puts our local and regional solid waste authorities at a competitive disadvantage with the so-called "recycling" facilities that are being deregulated, jeopardizing the public investment in these facilities. Your senators need to hear a similar message. More
Issues: Fracking, WV Legislature

Action Alert Vivian Mar 6, 2016
March Madness: Come Out, Speak Up
Much to do in March! Comment on frack waste barging, compressor stations. Come out for democracy, safe water and have fun at the same time. More
Issues: Fracking, Social justice, Water