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Coal-Mac Mine Complex Destroying Pine Creek Watershed
Local citizen and clean water groups filed suit today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia over widespread water pollution from Coal-Mac, Inc.’s sprawling surface coal mining complex in Logan County, West Virginia.
Tell Senator Capito: Flush The TPP; #FallRising
You should take action if you care about defending clean water, clean air, safe food, our mountains and rivers, because the TPP is a threat to our environment...
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!
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.
Mayoral Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Marks OVEC’s New Presence in Old Central City
On November 7, members and supporters of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition gathered to celebrate the group’s new and remodeled office space with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, office tours, live music and refreshments.
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.
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.
First Responders Want to Know: What’s in There?
First responders who may have to deal with fracking-traffic accidents want to know what's in those big rigs. Good question.
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."
PA DEP Not Protecting Environment (Nor People Who Live in It)
Fracking for shale gas in our broader region began about ten years ago in Pennsylvania. So, how is that working out for the people who live in the industrial-fracking areas? How is the PA DEP doing? An October series by Central PA news outlet PennLive is entitled "PA. regulators fail to protect environment during Marcellus Shale boom." Here’s a summary of their exhaustive investigation.
Keep Your Corporate Greed Out of My Water
It’s not rocket science. We need a public water system. We need to revoke this greedy, inept, arrogant company’s charter. We need this public commission to show some basic leadership, and not play to these negotiations, but do your job, and show them the door. And assuming leadership is tough to come by, the very, very, very, very, very least you can do is deny WV American Water’s outrageous rate hike.
Masseyopoly
Masseyopoly: The Game of Mine Safety and Environmental Compliance. And oh yeah, making money.
Take a Few Moments to Comment For Streams, More
Comment for streams on SPR by Oct. 26; come out for public water on Oct. 26; take action for racial justice and get ready for the Treehuggers' Ball: An OVEC Action Alert
EPA Seeking Young Adults to Serve on NEJAC Climate Justice Work Group
EPA is seeking young adults, ages 18 to 29, who are involved in climate change efforts and/or advocacy, to participate on this "first of its kind" youth-led advisory work group to assist the National Environmental Justice Council (NEJAC) in developing advice and recommendations to assist EPA in developing best practices to address climate change concerns.
Come Out Monday: Speak Out Against the 28% Water Rate Increase
If you are frustrated by the water company's high rates, poor service, main breaks and continued vulnerability, then the Public Service Commission needs to hear from you! Go public!
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.
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.
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.
Out by the Mailbox: Big Rig Staging Area
Recently SWN bought out CHK and now it has begun to ramp up its activity on a number of existing fracking well pads. For me personally that means daily viewing of all their trucks in their parking lot right behind my mail box down at the paved road.
Pipelines Pummel Property, Land, Water, Democracy
Photos show pipeline pummeling land and water. Letter details problems. Group takes action!