Tag: Fracking
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Hoots and Hollers OVEC Dec 18, 2015
Shale and Pipelines: What the Frack is Going On in Putnam County?
Shale and Pipelines: What the Frack is Going On in Putnam County? 6 – 8 p.m. Thursday, January 21 Eleanor Presbyterian Church 205 Eleanor Circle, Eleanor, WV OVEC is sponsoring this community forum. Come out to meet your neighbors and What does the development of Rogersville Shale and the proposed Mountaineer XPress Pipeline mean for our […] More
Issues: Fracking, Pollution, Rogersville Shale
Shale and Pipelines: What the Frack is Going On in Putnam County?
Shale and Pipelines: What the Frack is Going On in Putnam County? 6 – 8 p.m. Thursday, January 21 Eleanor Presbyterian Church 205 Eleanor Circle, Eleanor, WV OVEC is sponsoring this community forum. Come out to meet your neighbors and What does the development of Rogersville Shale and the proposed Mountaineer XPress Pipeline mean for our […] More
Issues: Fracking, Pollution, Rogersville Shale
Press Release OVEC Dec 18, 2015
Groups Gather to Tackle Gas Concerns
West Virginians facing crucial quality of life issues with the onslaught of the deep shale oil and gas industry are banding together for the sake of their communities. More
Issues: Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines, Rogersville Shale
Groups Gather to Tackle Gas Concerns
West Virginians facing crucial quality of life issues with the onslaught of the deep shale oil and gas industry are banding together for the sake of their communities. More
Issues: Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines, Rogersville Shale
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Dec 17, 2015
OVEC’s Successes in 2015: Thank You!
OVEC's work is successful because of the work of our volunteers, members and supporters. Thank you! Here's a sampling of some of our 2015 successes. As you make your end donations, please remember OVEC. Donations to OVEC are tax-deductible. More
Issues: Aboveground storage tanks, Climate change, Coal, DEP, Energy efficiency, Fracking, Mountaintop removal
OVEC’s Successes in 2015: Thank You!
OVEC's work is successful because of the work of our volunteers, members and supporters. Thank you! Here's a sampling of some of our 2015 successes. As you make your end donations, please remember OVEC. Donations to OVEC are tax-deductible. More
Issues: Aboveground storage tanks, Climate change, Coal, DEP, Energy efficiency, Fracking, Mountaintop removal
Newsletter OVEC Dec 17, 2015
Winds of Change, Winter 2015-16
Together We Grow! Celebrating Our New Digs More
Issues: FERC, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Pollution, Racial inequality, Rogersville Shale
Winds of Change, Winter 2015-16
Together We Grow! Celebrating Our New Digs More
Issues: FERC, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Pipelines, Pollution, Racial inequality, Rogersville Shale
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Nov 30, 2015
Time to Choose No More Sacrifice Zones
Update: the free streaming period is over, but you can see a clip of the film here. Follow the film on Facebook here and on Twitter here. Use the hashtag: #TimeToChoose. Time To Choose, a new film by the Oscar-winning documentary director Charles Ferguson will be screened at two special events in Paris in two weeks during the UN climate-change […] More
Issues: Climate change, Coal, Energy efficiency, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Rogersville Shale, Sustainability, Transition economy
Time to Choose No More Sacrifice Zones
Update: the free streaming period is over, but you can see a clip of the film here. Follow the film on Facebook here and on Twitter here. Use the hashtag: #TimeToChoose. Time To Choose, a new film by the Oscar-winning documentary director Charles Ferguson will be screened at two special events in Paris in two weeks during the UN climate-change […] More
Issues: Climate change, Coal, Energy efficiency, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Rogersville Shale, Sustainability, Transition economy
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Nov 21, 2015
#GivingTuesday: OVEC’s Night at the Kanawha Forest Exposition
From 6 - 8 p.m. on #GivingTuesday, December 1, we hope you'll come out for OVEC’s Night at the Kanawha Forest Exposition, 247 Capitol St., Charleston, WV. Stop in for refreshments and to listen to the music of local musician Paul Epstein. More
Issues: Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Renewable energy, Social justice, Water
#GivingTuesday: OVEC’s Night at the Kanawha Forest Exposition
From 6 - 8 p.m. on #GivingTuesday, December 1, we hope you'll come out for OVEC’s Night at the Kanawha Forest Exposition, 247 Capitol St., Charleston, WV. Stop in for refreshments and to listen to the music of local musician Paul Epstein. More
Issues: Fracking, Mountaintop removal, Renewable energy, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Robin Blakeman Nov 20, 2015
Ironies of Frack-Waste-“Water”: “Beneficial” Brine or Toxic Trouble?
A plant near Fairmont is recycling the waste water produced by gas fracking, and we don’t really know what’s in that “brine.” Should we be using that on fires, on roads? More
Issues: Fracking, Pollution, Social justice, Water
Ironies of Frack-Waste-“Water”: “Beneficial” Brine or Toxic Trouble?
A plant near Fairmont is recycling the waste water produced by gas fracking, and we don’t really know what’s in that “brine.” Should we be using that on fires, on roads? More
Issues: Fracking, Pollution, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Nov 14, 2015
BLM Examining Fracking in Wayne National Forest; Speak Up!
The BLM is examining opening the Wayne National Forest in Ohio to fracking. Public meetings coming up - speak out! More
Issues: Fracking
BLM Examining Fracking in Wayne National Forest; Speak Up!
The BLM is examining opening the Wayne National Forest in Ohio to fracking. Public meetings coming up - speak out! More
Issues: Fracking
Press Release OVEC Nov 9, 2015
OVEC Movie Night Features Film on Grassroots Victory Over Proposed Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
With deep, unconventional Rogersville Shale oil and gas fracking and at least seven major proposed pipelines posing new threats to water, air and soil quality in West Virginia, a local grassroots groups wants to remind people that they can protect their communities with organized resistance. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines
OVEC Movie Night Features Film on Grassroots Victory Over Proposed Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
With deep, unconventional Rogersville Shale oil and gas fracking and at least seven major proposed pipelines posing new threats to water, air and soil quality in West Virginia, a local grassroots groups wants to remind people that they can protect their communities with organized resistance. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines
Hoots and Hollers Robin Blakeman Nov 8, 2015
Free Film Night Boosts People Power Over Fossil Fuel
Come on out to see this inspiring film about how our neighbors in Kentucky took on a proposed pipeline and won! We’ll share information about the threats we face and what we can do to address those threats by building people power. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Rogersville Shale
Free Film Night Boosts People Power Over Fossil Fuel
Come on out to see this inspiring film about how our neighbors in Kentucky took on a proposed pipeline and won! We’ll share information about the threats we face and what we can do to address those threats by building people power. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Rogersville Shale
Fair use news OVEC Nov 6, 2015
Putnam County becomes focus for gas drilling possibilities
Despite this year’s slumping gas prices, potential profits that lay far beneath Putnam County’s surface are piquing some companies’ interests. More
Issues: Fracking
Putnam County becomes focus for gas drilling possibilities
Despite this year’s slumping gas prices, potential profits that lay far beneath Putnam County’s surface are piquing some companies’ interests. More
Issues: Fracking
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Nov 3, 2015
In Ritchie County, Rural Life Ruined by Fracking Pipelines
Keely Kernan has just published a new short film narrated by Ritchie County, WV resident Jim Shreves, who lives in the middle of what locals now call "Frackistan." More
Issues: Fracking, Pipelines, Pollution, Social justice, Water
In Ritchie County, Rural Life Ruined by Fracking Pipelines
Keely Kernan has just published a new short film narrated by Ritchie County, WV resident Jim Shreves, who lives in the middle of what locals now call "Frackistan." More
Issues: Fracking, Pipelines, Pollution, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Oct 21, 2015
Ohio River: Algae Warning Lifted, Fracking Waste Threat Growing
The algae bloom threat is lifted, but radium 226, well we aren't doing anything about that. More
Issues: Fracking, Health, Water
Ohio River: Algae Warning Lifted, Fracking Waste Threat Growing
The algae bloom threat is lifted, but radium 226, well we aren't doing anything about that. More
Issues: Fracking, Health, Water
Pipeline Gallery Vivian Oct 20, 2015
Stonewall Gathering Pipeline Construction in Lewis County
For more than a year, award winning filmmaker and photographer Keely Kernan has been focusing her lenses on the human impacts of mountaintop removal and deep shale oil and gas extraction here in West Virginia. Keely shared these photos of the construction Stonewall Gathering Pipeline in Lewis County. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines
Stonewall Gathering Pipeline Construction in Lewis County
For more than a year, award winning filmmaker and photographer Keely Kernan has been focusing her lenses on the human impacts of mountaintop removal and deep shale oil and gas extraction here in West Virginia. Keely shared these photos of the construction Stonewall Gathering Pipeline in Lewis County. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Oct 20, 2015
Group Comments to Upshur Commission on Pipelines
Columbia Gas’ WB XPress pipeline upgrade and expansion project would affect six counties in West Virginia. The project would add new pipe and increase operating pressure at the four existing compressor stations in WV, and add one new station in Kanawha County. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines
Group Comments to Upshur Commission on Pipelines
Columbia Gas’ WB XPress pipeline upgrade and expansion project would affect six counties in West Virginia. The project would add new pipe and increase operating pressure at the four existing compressor stations in WV, and add one new station in Kanawha County. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Pipelines
Newsletter OVEC Oct 12, 2015
Winds of Change, Fall 2015
On June 15, we held our first forum on the Rogersville Shale in Huntington. About 200 people attended. WV Public Radio and TV stations WSAZ and WOWK aired stories on the forum. More
Issues: Climate change, Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Water
Winds of Change, Fall 2015
On June 15, we held our first forum on the Rogersville Shale in Huntington. About 200 people attended. WV Public Radio and TV stations WSAZ and WOWK aired stories on the forum. More
Issues: Climate change, Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Water
Hoots and Hollers Robin Blakeman Oct 1, 2015
Prayers for The Ground Beneath Our Hearts
On September 12, despite cold, wind and rain, about 25 people from across West Virginia showed up for the Ground Beneath Our Hearts, held at a picnic shelter in Kanawha State Forest. They came to honor and heal the people and places we love. As people entered the picnic shelter, they noticed a prayer cloth catching the wind. Each person […] More
Issues: Faith, Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Social justice
Prayers for The Ground Beneath Our Hearts
On September 12, despite cold, wind and rain, about 25 people from across West Virginia showed up for the Ground Beneath Our Hearts, held at a picnic shelter in Kanawha State Forest. They came to honor and heal the people and places we love. As people entered the picnic shelter, they noticed a prayer cloth catching the wind. Each person […] More
Issues: Faith, Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Social justice
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Sep 28, 2015
Sept. 29 Forum on Fracking at WVSU
On September 29, come on out to the West Virginia State University Forum on Fracking. All events for the “Fracking: In the Beginning Was the Source Rock” forum will take place in room 134 of the Wilson University Union at WVSU in Institute and are free and open to the public. More
Issues: Fracking
Sept. 29 Forum on Fracking at WVSU
On September 29, come on out to the West Virginia State University Forum on Fracking. All events for the “Fracking: In the Beginning Was the Source Rock” forum will take place in room 134 of the Wilson University Union at WVSU in Institute and are free and open to the public. More
Issues: Fracking
Hoots and Hollers Dan Sep 24, 2015
Defend Water, Defend Our Future
States with a water scarcity problem, like California, would love access to the amount of water that West Virginia has. While our water may be plentiful here, we have to defend it to keep it clean and usable. More
Issues: Climate change, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Water
Defend Water, Defend Our Future
States with a water scarcity problem, like California, would love access to the amount of water that West Virginia has. While our water may be plentiful here, we have to defend it to keep it clean and usable. More
Issues: Climate change, Fracking, Health, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Water
Action Alert OVEC Sep 1, 2015
Speak Up For Appalachia’s Streams; Help Bring On the Solar;More
First and foremost, on the mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining front, we need you to comment to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement on its long-awaited "Stream Protection Rule," the latest version of the perpetually unenforced "Buffer Zone Rule." More
Issues: Climate change, Coal, Fracking, Health, Mountaintop removal, Water
Speak Up For Appalachia’s Streams; Help Bring On the Solar;More
First and foremost, on the mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining front, we need you to comment to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement on its long-awaited "Stream Protection Rule," the latest version of the perpetually unenforced "Buffer Zone Rule." More
Issues: Climate change, Coal, Fracking, Health, Mountaintop removal, Water