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[Fwd: [fom] Where Do Our Elected Officials Stand on Blair Mountain?]
by Regina Hendrix 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

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PSC Staff Response to Petitions for Review
by William V. DePaulo, Esq. 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

ATTACHED IS THE PSC STAFF RESPONSE -- William V. DePaulo, Esq. 179 Summers Street, Suite 232 Charleston, WV 25301-2163 Tel: 304-342-5588 Fax: 304-342-5505 william.depaulo(a)gmail.com www.passeggiata.com

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TRAILCO RESPONSE TO SIERRA AND HILDEBRAND PETITIONS FOR REVIEW OF PSC DECISION AT WV SUPREME COURT
by William V. DePaulo, Esq. 13 Apr '09

13 Apr '09

FYI - HERE IS THE TRAILCO RESPONSE. HAVE NOT READ IT YET. OUR ARGUMENT IS APRIL 29 BEFORE S CT. -- William V. DePaulo, Esq. 179 Summers Street, Suite 232 Charleston, WV 25301-2163 Tel: 304-342-5588 Fax: 304-342-5505 william.depaulo(a)gmail.com www.passeggiata.com

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SB 753 - calls needed
by Jim Sconyers 09 Apr '09

09 Apr '09

[Note: This information is about a bill concerning the new wave of gas drilling in the Marcellus shale strata in West Virginia. WVSC Chapter leader Beth Little has provided brief explanations of why the proposed bill is a bad idea. You can help, and she shows how.] Contact Del. Carrie Webster, chair of House Judiciary - e-mail cwebste1(a)mail.wvnet.edu or phone 304-340-3252 and ask her not to report the bill out of committee and give your reasons as to why it's a bad bill. Also contact any members of the Judiciary Committee (listed below) that are in your district. Reasons why SB 753 is a bad bill: It would prevent counties from addressing problems in their local areas. If WV had adequate regulation of gas drilling at the state level, it would not be necessary for counties to take steps to protect citizens. WV has no limits on water withdrawals (only “advisories”) and no permitting process to alert county authorities or citizens to a potential problem ahead of time. WV allows land application of drilling brine (as in salty wastewater), which can poison agricultural soil (an incident in the Fernow Experimental Forest resulted in a few acres of dead vegetation within days, including trees), WV has no maximum limit on total dissolved solids (TDS) in streams and rivers. Recently the Mon River violated PA TDS limits and caused problems at industrial facilities on the river, plus resulted in hundreds of thousands of PA residents having to use bottled water. WV has insufficient inspectors to monitor the increased number of drilling sites. WV allows onsite burial of pit liners containing potential toxic material. County planning agencies need the authority to regulate activities that threaten local land and water until the state can pass appropriate legislation, but SB 753 would prevent them from doing this. Judiciary Committee members: Highlight the name below and then press CTRL while clicking, and you will be taken to the delegates site for email, phone number and other information. Delegate Miley - Vice-Chair Delegate Ellem - Minority Chair Delegate Lane - Minority Vice-Chair Delegate Barker Delegate Brown Delegate Caputo Delegate Ferro Delegate Fleischauer Delegate Frazier Delegate Hunt Delegate Hutchins Delegate Longstreth Delegate Michael Delegate Moore Delegate Shook Delegate Susman Delegate Tabb Delegate Wells Delegate Wooton Delegate Hamilton Delegate Overington Delegate Schadler Delegate Schoen Delegate Sobonya Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last.

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Re: [EC] Appalachia film on PBS
by Regina Hendrix 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Harvard, it's going to be running in the Charleston area on WVPBS starting at 9:00 p.m. on Monday, April 13 and lasting for four weeks. I'm putting this info on the FOM list. This has not yet received much publicity in this area. I've pasted the Post-Gazette piece in below. Harvard wrote: > >> Friends, relatives, etc.- Tomorrow night at 10:00PM on PBS will be a >> film called "Appalachia- A History of Mountains and People." Rumor >> has it that I will play a part. It is in four parts over the next >> four weeks, I think, and I don't know when I will appear. It's >> basically a history of the environmental movement in Appalachia. Take >> a look at the linked review in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. >> >>>> http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09097/960981-67.stm > Harvard PBS's 'Appalachia' examines region's heart and soul TV Review Tuesday, April 07, 2009 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press Sissy Spacek will narrate the four-part PBS series "Appalachia." Appalachia is in a rarefied limelight this Thursday when PBS airs the first part of an engrossing and beautifully filmed and illustrated series subtitled "A History of Mountains and People." "Appalachia" is both a paean to and an investigation of the world's oldest mountains, their sufferance and the sufferance of their inhabitants -- from chestnut trees and salamanders to the Saponi, Sugaree and Coosa tribes to the families who lived in squalor in company towns. Should enough people actually watch it, "Appalachia" (10 p.m. Thursday, WQED) could be the beginning of a cure for society's malignant attitude about the region. It doesn't portray Appalachia as anything it isn't; deeply isolated mountain people really are quaint. But there's so little deep isolation anymore, and Appalachia has been wrestled into the shape of the rest of the country. The otherness that fascinated the first outside journalists has been eradicated over a century like so many irreplaceable qualities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People' **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Narrated by actress Sissy Spacek, with interviews of scientists, historians and novelists, the four-part series begins with the birth of the mountains 500 million years ago. The breakup of the supercontinent Pangea led to collisions that caused mantle to buckle and lift. In Part II (10 p.m. April 16), native and European cultures collided, most horrifically when Hernando de Soto and his wild band of horsemen slayed people who wouldn't show them where the nonexistent gold was. Part III (10 p.m. April 23) brings us into the mid-1800s. Industrialization quickens the pace, levels old-growth forests and turns one of Earth's great wonders into a commodity. The greatest tragedy of Appalachia is that it became what anthropologist Harvard Ayers called "a resource colony, an environment you could sacrifice for the benefit of the rest of the country." Part IV (10 p.m. April 30) is less thematic. It tells of the forestry conservation movement; the labor movement and the violent resistance of coal companies against it; the cultural renaissance from which emerged the writings of Thomas Wolfe and the Carter family's music; and the loss of the American chestnut, Appalachia's crowning species. A very brief few minutes is given to the shocking devastation that a handful of "miners" can cause by blowing an entire mountain apart and throwing everything that buried the coal into the ridges below. Mountaintop removal mining -- a still-legal form of environmental mayhem -- is Appalachia's most spotlighted issue today, but this series puts it in historical place on a very long timeline. Much of the political history of this series, such as the role John L. Lewis and Mary "Mother Jones" Harris played in organizing labor, has worn deep grooves into the brain by now, but there's some surprising learnin' to be had. Who knew, for example, that some species of trees and salamanders in Appalachia have matches in southeast China -- and nowhere else in the world; and that more species of trees live in one acre of North Carolina mountains than in all of Europe? Few documentaries give equal time to species other than the human to explain a history. This one does. It gives first billing, though, to the mountains themselves -- the "soul and spine" of a people as diverse as any but bound by a heart tug for "home" that's all about being an underdog who knows a superior beauty. Diana Nelson Jones can be reached at djones(a)post-gazette.com <mailto:djones@post-gazette.com> or 412-263-1626. See her online site "City Walkabout" at post-gazette.com/journals <http://www.post-gazette.com/journals>.

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Fwd: Fw: NoToPATH action call for BOS meeting on Monday pm
by James Kotcon 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

To the Energy Committee: I received the attached e-mail regarding a proposal to relase conservation easements in Loudon County, VA for the PATH transmission lines. The hearing is Monday, and I propose to offer the attached letter of support for the resolution. I bvelieve that a decision by Loudon County, VA to release conservation easements would be used by PATH to argue for similar release in WV. Please review the attached info, and let me know by the end of Sunday if you have comments on the letter. JBK

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[Fwd: Re: Sorry friends, ONE SENATE email was wrong in the POWERLINE ACTION info just sent]
by Regina Hendrix 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

I'm attaching an E-Mail I received from Tina Rappaport. Tina has worked up a very handy document in a very readable format with complete mailing addresses, phones and contact information for all the WV Legislators. The document is 11 pages and I've had trouble putting attachments on the FOM list before, so if you'd like a copy just E-Mail me and I'll send it to you. Regina Hendrix

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Fwd: Media for coal-by-wire amicus brief with Union of Concerned Scientist, etc.?
by James Kotcon 04 Apr '09

04 Apr '09

Attached is some news about the Club's efforts in Pennsylvania. Enjoy. JBK

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[Fwd: FW: {Fraud?} Chemical disaster in America]
by Regina Hendrix 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Please sign on and pass this on to as many people as possible. The explosion last August was very scary, so scary that I'm leaving the Kanawha Valley and moving to the northern part of the state. Unfortunately, many of my friends and relatives cannot leave. Regina Hendrix

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Fw: [ Email Story ] W.Va. House resolution supports Coal River wind farm
by Jim Sconyers 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

Pretty impressive - 40 sponsors for Coal River Mountain Wind! Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. --- On Fri, 4/3/09, jim_scon(a)yahoo.com <jim_scon(a)yahoo.com> wrote: From: jim_scon(a)yahoo.com <jim_scon(a)yahoo.com> Subject: [ Email Story ] W.Va. House resolution supports Coal River wind farm To: jim_scon(a)yahoo.com Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 10:52 AM jim_scon(a)yahoo.com sent you this article ----- April 2, 2009 W.Va. House resolution supports Coal River wind farm By Alison Knezevich Staff writer More than 40 members of the House of Delegates have signed a resolution supporting the development of a wind farm on Coal River Mountain in Southern West Virginia. Read more ----- send out

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