Tag: Water
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Hoots and Hollers Vivian Sep 8, 2014
DC: ‘Shine Tonight – Come Taste It
Time to get your 'shine on! Moonshine that is. If you are in or near the Washington, D.C. area, please come out tonight starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Stewart R. Mott House.Help raise awareness and funds, while sampling some traditional Appalachian beverages with the experts! More
Issues: Coal, Health, Mountaintop removal, Water
DC: ‘Shine Tonight – Come Taste It
Time to get your 'shine on! Moonshine that is. If you are in or near the Washington, D.C. area, please come out tonight starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Stewart R. Mott House.Help raise awareness and funds, while sampling some traditional Appalachian beverages with the experts! More
Issues: Coal, Health, Mountaintop removal, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Sep 4, 2014
If You Can Come to DC on Sept. 9…
OVECourwater_o is a member group of The Alliance for Appalachia and we’ll be joining folks in D.C. for Our Water, Our Future on Sept. 9. Will you join us? More
Issues: Mountaintop removal, Social justice, Water
If You Can Come to DC on Sept. 9…
OVECourwater_o is a member group of The Alliance for Appalachia and we’ll be joining folks in D.C. for Our Water, Our Future on Sept. 9. Will you join us? More
Issues: Mountaintop removal, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Aug 28, 2014
Don’t Delay Public Safety! Call WV Gov Now
Due to this: Kessler, Miley want special session to delay chemical tank safety deadline, we are asking you to call Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (304-558-2000), Senate President Jeff Kessler (304-357-7801) and House Speaker Miley (304-340-3210) to let them know that the public does NOT want to delay the implementation of SB 373, the Water Bill. More
Issues: Water
Don’t Delay Public Safety! Call WV Gov Now
Due to this: Kessler, Miley want special session to delay chemical tank safety deadline, we are asking you to call Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (304-558-2000), Senate President Jeff Kessler (304-357-7801) and House Speaker Miley (304-340-3210) to let them know that the public does NOT want to delay the implementation of SB 373, the Water Bill. More
Issues: Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Jul 2, 2014
Solar Powered Music Festival This Weekend
Keeper of the Mountains Foundation invites you to join them on Kayford Mountain for a solar-powered weekend of music and fund. Celebrate our Community and our Water! More
Issues: Coal, Mountaintop removal, Renewable energy, Water
Solar Powered Music Festival This Weekend
Keeper of the Mountains Foundation invites you to join them on Kayford Mountain for a solar-powered weekend of music and fund. Celebrate our Community and our Water! More
Issues: Coal, Mountaintop removal, Renewable energy, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Jul 2, 2014
Art and Music Fun(d)raiser July 3
Are you AWARE that you can have some fun tomorrow night while raising funds for local environmental justice groups? AWARE is Artists Working in Alliance to Restore the Environment. More
Issues: Climate change, Music, Social justice, Water
Art and Music Fun(d)raiser July 3
Are you AWARE that you can have some fun tomorrow night while raising funds for local environmental justice groups? AWARE is Artists Working in Alliance to Restore the Environment. More
Issues: Climate change, Music, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Jun 28, 2014
Duke Offering Free Well Water Testing in So. WV
Hey people of central and southern West Virginia. If you live in the Kanawha, Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Raleigh, Mingo, or Fayette county and have concerns about the quality of your well water, you may be eligible for free well water testing by Duke University. Call 866-264-7891. More
Issues: Water
Duke Offering Free Well Water Testing in So. WV
Hey people of central and southern West Virginia. If you live in the Kanawha, Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Raleigh, Mingo, or Fayette county and have concerns about the quality of your well water, you may be eligible for free well water testing by Duke University. Call 866-264-7891. More
Issues: Water
Newsletter OVEC Jun 22, 2014
Winds of Change, Summer 2014
In July of 2013, Bill Hughes sent a detailed e-mail to the owner-operator of Jay-Bee Oil & Gas’ Lisby Marcellus Shale gas operation. The well pad is about six miles southeast of Middlebourne, on Big Run Road in Tyler ounty, WV, and it’s been a problem for people living nearby since the operation “first pushed dirt,” Hughes says. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Water
Winds of Change, Summer 2014
In July of 2013, Bill Hughes sent a detailed e-mail to the owner-operator of Jay-Bee Oil & Gas’ Lisby Marcellus Shale gas operation. The well pad is about six miles southeast of Middlebourne, on Big Run Road in Tyler ounty, WV, and it’s been a problem for people living nearby since the operation “first pushed dirt,” Hughes says. More
Issues: Fracking, Marcellus Shale, Mountaintop removal, Water
Hoots and Hollers Janet Keating May 30, 2014
Migwetch! Sharon Day and Barb Baker-larush Complete the Nibi Walk for the Ohio River!
981 miles of steps for the Ohio River during the Ohio River Nibi walk! They did it! Thank you, Ojibwe women, Sharon Day and Barb Baker-larush for every loving step you took with each step a healing prayer! More
Issues: Faith, Water
Migwetch! Sharon Day and Barb Baker-larush Complete the Nibi Walk for the Ohio River!
981 miles of steps for the Ohio River during the Ohio River Nibi walk! They did it! Thank you, Ojibwe women, Sharon Day and Barb Baker-larush for every loving step you took with each step a healing prayer! More
Issues: Faith, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Apr 22, 2014
Nibi is Life – Ohio River Walk 2014 Underway
OVEC members and supporters and all Friends of Water are urged to support the Ohio River Walk 2014. More
Issues: Health, Pollution, Social justice, Water
Nibi is Life – Ohio River Walk 2014 Underway
OVEC members and supporters and all Friends of Water are urged to support the Ohio River Walk 2014. More
Issues: Health, Pollution, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Apr 4, 2014
Music to Move a Movement
Madonna sang it, so it’s got to be spot-on: “Music makes the people come together.” Madonna’s Music may be about people coming together to party, but music can move and motivate the masses to take more beneficial actions (not that we don’t need some fun in our lives), such as, for example, working to end […] More
Issues: Mountaintop removal, Music, Water
Music to Move a Movement
Madonna sang it, so it’s got to be spot-on: “Music makes the people come together.” Madonna’s Music may be about people coming together to party, but music can move and motivate the masses to take more beneficial actions (not that we don’t need some fun in our lives), such as, for example, working to end […] More
Issues: Mountaintop removal, Music, Water
Newsletter OVEC Mar 8, 2014
Winds of Change, March 2014
Don’t drink the water. Don’t shower. Don’t cook with it or wash your clothes. There’s half a century gone. Gone most of us who went to Elk Grade School, gone, too. Gone the white frame homes, the small brick duplexes, the school we marched to for our polio shots. Gone the quick-tongued streams, gone the valleys, filled with mountaintop, gone from the fog-draped skyscape. It’s licorice scented air, not sun-dried cotton sheets, licorice wafting from the tap. More
Issues: Energy, Fracking, Health, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Water
Winds of Change, March 2014
Don’t drink the water. Don’t shower. Don’t cook with it or wash your clothes. There’s half a century gone. Gone most of us who went to Elk Grade School, gone, too. Gone the white frame homes, the small brick duplexes, the school we marched to for our polio shots. Gone the quick-tongued streams, gone the valleys, filled with mountaintop, gone from the fog-draped skyscape. It’s licorice scented air, not sun-dried cotton sheets, licorice wafting from the tap. More
Issues: Energy, Fracking, Health, Mountaintop removal, Pollution, Water
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Feb 5, 2014
Coal Industry Would Like To Push & Poison Us Out of Here
When I first read this document 12 years ago, it infuriated me. Starting on page 13, the essay includes points that amount to a depopulation plan for southern West Virginia. I think it infuriates me even more now, after everything that’s happened since then. The latest: the January 9 “leak” into the Elk River of 10,000 gallons of a chemical used in coal prep plants from an uninspected,decrepit tank farm and the subsequent poisoning of the water supply of about 300,000 West Virginians, a water crisis that is still unfolding today, nearly a month later. More
Issues: MCHM, Mountaintop removal, Social justice, Water
Coal Industry Would Like To Push & Poison Us Out of Here
When I first read this document 12 years ago, it infuriated me. Starting on page 13, the essay includes points that amount to a depopulation plan for southern West Virginia. I think it infuriates me even more now, after everything that’s happened since then. The latest: the January 9 “leak” into the Elk River of 10,000 gallons of a chemical used in coal prep plants from an uninspected,decrepit tank farm and the subsequent poisoning of the water supply of about 300,000 West Virginians, a water crisis that is still unfolding today, nearly a month later. More
Issues: MCHM, Mountaintop removal, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Feb 4, 2014
McEntee’s Comments @ SB373 Public Hearing
On February 3, the WV Legislature held a public hearing on SB 373, a bill crafted in response to the MCHM chemical / water crisis still unfolding here in Central West Virginia. Below are the comments from one of the 50 people who spoke last night. More
Issues: Health, MCHM, Water, WV American Water
McEntee’s Comments @ SB373 Public Hearing
On February 3, the WV Legislature held a public hearing on SB 373, a bill crafted in response to the MCHM chemical / water crisis still unfolding here in Central West Virginia. Below are the comments from one of the 50 people who spoke last night. More
Issues: Health, MCHM, Water, WV American Water
Hoots and Hollers Janet Keating Jan 31, 2014
Anita Wotiz, former WV native responds: I’m From West Virginia and I’ve Got Something to Say About the Chemical Spill
Having lived in West Virginia for 5 years and graduating (long ago) from Huntington High School, the state and its people are often in my thoughts and always in my heart. Last week I received an email from a friend of a friend who lives in West Virginia and was forwarding an article about the recent chemical spill. She commented that the article expressed many of her questions from the past 35 years she has lived in the state, but she had never felt the rage expressed by the author. More
Issues: MCHM, Mountaintop removal, Social justice, Water
Anita Wotiz, former WV native responds: I’m From West Virginia and I’ve Got Something to Say About the Chemical Spill
Having lived in West Virginia for 5 years and graduating (long ago) from Huntington High School, the state and its people are often in my thoughts and always in my heart. Last week I received an email from a friend of a friend who lives in West Virginia and was forwarding an article about the recent chemical spill. She commented that the article expressed many of her questions from the past 35 years she has lived in the state, but she had never felt the rage expressed by the author. More
Issues: MCHM, Mountaintop removal, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Jan 26, 2014
Honoring the Waters: Videos of Vigil, Music, Speech
Thanks to the folks who made these fabulous videos of the Jan. 21 Honoring the Waters ceremony and some of the music and speeches featured at the indoor part of the event. Click the YouTube links to open the videos on YouTube, check out the credits and find more information. More
Issues: MCHM, Social justice, Water
Honoring the Waters: Videos of Vigil, Music, Speech
Thanks to the folks who made these fabulous videos of the Jan. 21 Honoring the Waters ceremony and some of the music and speeches featured at the indoor part of the event. Click the YouTube links to open the videos on YouTube, check out the credits and find more information. More
Issues: MCHM, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Jan 26, 2014
Honoring the Waters: Two of the Speeches
Honoring the Waters: Two of the Speeches: Heavy snowfall kept a couple of our speakers and likely hundreds of folks who had planned to be there from our January 21 Honoring the Waters Candlelight Vigil. More
Issues: MCHM, Water
Honoring the Waters: Two of the Speeches
Honoring the Waters: Two of the Speeches: Heavy snowfall kept a couple of our speakers and likely hundreds of folks who had planned to be there from our January 21 Honoring the Waters Candlelight Vigil. More
Issues: MCHM, Water
Hoots and Hollers Vivian Jan 26, 2014
Take a pebble. Drop it in water. Watch the ripples on the water.
On January 21, in the midst of a statewide snowstorm, around 200 people gathered for an event: Honor the Waters Candlelight Vigil. Outside the West Virginia State Capitol, alongside the Kanawha River, in sub-freezing temperatures and a beautiful snowfall, people stood together to honor and defend our water during a time of crisis. People across the nation and around the globe held solidarity vigils. More
Issues: MCHM, Water, WV American Water
Take a pebble. Drop it in water. Watch the ripples on the water.
On January 21, in the midst of a statewide snowstorm, around 200 people gathered for an event: Honor the Waters Candlelight Vigil. Outside the West Virginia State Capitol, alongside the Kanawha River, in sub-freezing temperatures and a beautiful snowfall, people stood together to honor and defend our water during a time of crisis. People across the nation and around the globe held solidarity vigils. More
Issues: MCHM, Water, WV American Water
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
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 4, 2013
So THEY’RE the Ones Treating Fracking Waste Water….
Questions that I’ve been asking myself lately are, “Who are the companies that are treating the waste water from the fracking process? Who are the corporate players getting in on on this new and lucrative business due to the Marcellus Shale gas drilling boom?” You don’t hear much about these shadowy companies, and maybe for […] More
Issues: Marcellus Shale, Pollution, Social justice, Water
So THEY’RE the Ones Treating Fracking Waste Water….
Questions that I’ve been asking myself lately are, “Who are the companies that are treating the waste water from the fracking process? Who are the corporate players getting in on on this new and lucrative business due to the Marcellus Shale gas drilling boom?” You don’t hear much about these shadowy companies, and maybe for […] More
Issues: Marcellus Shale, Pollution, Social justice, Water
Hoots and Hollers OVEC Oct 10, 2013
Synopsis: The Environmental Price Tag on a Ton of Mountaintop Removal Coal
Main Points: While several thousand square kilometers of land area have been subject to surface mining in the Central Appalachians, no reliable estimate exists for how much coal is produced per unit landscape disturbance. A one-year supply of coal would result in ∼2,300 km of stream impairment and a loss of ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity comparable to the global warming potential of >33,000 US homes. More
Issues: Climate change, Health, Mountaintop removal, Water
Synopsis: The Environmental Price Tag on a Ton of Mountaintop Removal Coal
Main Points: While several thousand square kilometers of land area have been subject to surface mining in the Central Appalachians, no reliable estimate exists for how much coal is produced per unit landscape disturbance. A one-year supply of coal would result in ∼2,300 km of stream impairment and a loss of ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity comparable to the global warming potential of >33,000 US homes. More
Issues: Climate change, Health, Mountaintop removal, Water