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from Center for Media and Democracy's email list: Drilling Through the Appalachian Shale Gas Hype
by Paul Wilson 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Be A Citizen JournalistDrilling Through the Appalachian Shale Gas Hype<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hqzZc2Byp1yq6a%2BXNL…> While the U.S. economy continues to reel from the fallout from the global financial crisis, there's a boom on in the gas industry wanting access to Appalachian areas underlain by the Marcellus Shale<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ut0v%2Bltf6raf2Bul0Y…>deposits. The gas-industry boom has environmentalists and many residents worried about the environmental impacts. To make gas production profitable, the industry employs a practice referred to as fracking<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m8mEO36WVYBC8HefykGl…>, pumping large volumes of water, sand and a mix of chemicals down drill holes to fracture the rock formations and increase the volume of accessible gas. While the Safe Drinking Water Act notionally protects water supplies, the gas industry is the only industry excluded from the scope of the legislation. Nor do many state government's regulate fracking practices. (A useful collection of articles<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BFhlgqORzNLTkdY2JY…>on the issue has been published by the non-profit journalism group, ProPublica<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zUpJPnDsjjmpZouy0DpF…> ). Right now, the issue is politically hot<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4pPKe17qxrYmnKoebCYd…>. Last week the U.S. House of Representatives adopted a resolution requesting the Environmental Protection Agency<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Xo0PpQMSAxBfYOy%2F6b…>re-examine the potential impact of fracking on water quality. While companies are busy hyping their involvement in Marcellus Shale projects, citizens groups are mobilizing to express their concerns about both fracking practices and gas production more generally. You can help document the environmental and other issues involved with the exploitation of the Marcellus Shale by helping building the SourceWatch article on the issue. See SourceWatch:Project:Documenting environmental and other issues with the exploitation of Marcellus Shale<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GXtLQzK%2Bo%2BthsuqB…>on our collaborative SourceWatch encyclopedia for more details. If you have never added material to SourceWatch before, don't worry! Our regular editors are at hand to help get you started. If this is your first time editing on SourceWatch, you can register here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LWxLd413qaxS6a96wL3f…>, and learn more about adding information to the site here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vnseSfF57oiQN%2BvmBx…>, here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=E6RqLYVIIqPlcji25%2B…>and here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=U90C14AOoEJ9dR6G1Voo…> . -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha

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Fwd: RSVP NOW: Coal Ash Mega Strategy Call Nov. 18 at 2pm
by Paul Wilson 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

fyi, paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Verena Owen <baumling(a)aol.com> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:08 PM Subject: Fwd: RSVP NOW: Coal Ash Mega Strategy Call Nov. 18 at 2pm To: COAL-CAMPAIGN-FORUM(a)lists.sierraclub.org If you want to join us on the coal ash call, pls RSVP per instructions below. Verena -----Original Message----- From: Lyndsay Moseley <Lyndsay.Moseley(a)sierraclub.org> To: baumling(a)aol.com Sent: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 12:31 pm Subject: Fw: RSVP NOW: Coal Ash Mega Strategy Call Nov. 18 at 2pm Verena, Will you forward this to the appropriate activist lists? Lyndsay Moseley Washington Representative Sierra Club 408 C St. NE Washington, DC 20002 tel: 202-548-4581 fax: 202-547-6009 ----- Forwarded by Lyndsay Moseley/Sierraclub on 11/12/2009 01:32 PM ----- *Lyndsay Moseley/Sierraclub* 11/12/2009 01:16 PM To #Coal cc Subject RSVP NOW: Coal Ash Mega Strategy Call Nov. 18 at 2pm Coal Campaigners, Sierra Club is co-hosting a call (with Earthjustice and Environmental Integrity Project) next Wednesay Nov. 18th at 2pm ET to discuss our national strategy on coal ash with grassroots organizers and leaders. This will be a great opportunity to get the current state of play on coal ash, ask questions, find out about resources available to support advocacy around EPA's coming coal ash rule, and participate in shaping our grassroots campaign around coal ash. If you are interested: 1) Please check your schedule and RSVP (see below) asap! 2) Please invite volunteer leaders and coalition partners to join the call as well. Please let me know if you have any questions -- Lyndsay Lyndsay Moseley Washington Representative Sierra Club 408 C St. NE Washington, DC 20002 tel: 202-548-4581 fax: 202-547-6009 ----- Forwarded by Lyndsay Moseley/Sierraclub on 11/12/2009 12:22 PM ----- *"Lisa N. Widawsky" <lwidawsky(a)environmentalintegrity.org>* 11/09/2009 09:50 PM To "Lisa N. Widawsky" <lwidawsky(a)environmentalintegrity.org> cc Subject RSVP NOW: Prevent Another TVA Disaster - Join Our Coal Ash Mega Strategy Call Nov. 18 at 2pm Greetings grassroots organizer, There are *just a few weeks* until U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will announce new proposed regulations governing coal ash disposal. Please join us *November 18* at *2 pm EST* for a brief telephone discussion with coal ash and media experts to learn how you can organize to build support for EPA rules that finally treat coal ash as the hazardous waste we all know it is. We will provide information about EPA’s upcoming coal combustion waste disposal rule, state-specific fact sheets on coal ash ponds and landfills in 35 states, and media tools to help get the word out to your members and communities about the critical need for EPA to designate coal ash as hazardous. You’ll be able to ask questions, get information, and prepare for public hearings on the coal ash rules. On October 8, well over a hundred organizations from across the country signed onto an important letter to Congress asking members to join Congressman John Lewis’s letter on the dangers of coal ash disposal. We’re asking you now to continue this fight by joining an effort to push EPA and Congress to protect public health and the environment from this hazardous waste. EPA has said repeatedly it plans to propose the first ever regulation for coal combustion waste disposal before the end of this year. The agency has already sent a draft of its proposed regulation to the Office of Management and Budget, which means the proposal could come out very soon. We invite you to join Earthjustice, the Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and hundreds of other groups in a discussion about the upcoming proposal and ways you can help. Polluters are pushing hard on EPA to avoid designating coal ash as hazardous. However, a hazardous waste designation means much stronger safeguards for communities surrounding hundreds of coal ash ponds and landfills. We’re relying on grassroots groups from across the country to get the word out to your members and engage your local media on the importance of regulating coal ash as hazardous waste. We must push back against industry claims and send a strong, unified message to EPA and our elected officials that the time to clean up toxic coal ash dumps is now! *RSVP* to *Jeremy Graham at Earthjustice (**jgraham(a)earthjustice.org*<jgraham(a)earthjustice.org> * or 202-667-4500, x217*). We’ll send out more information about the call including a telephone number and speaker lineup as the date approaches. If you have any questions, please contact Jared Saylor at Earthjustice (* jsaylor(a)earthjustice.org* <jsaylor(a)earthjustice.org>), Lisa Widawsky at the Environmental Integrity Project (*lwidawsky(a)environmentalintegrity.org*<lwidawsky(a)environmentalintegrity.org>), or Lyndsay Moseley at the Sierra Club (*Lyndsay.Moseley(a)sierraclub.org*<Lyndsay.Moseley(a)sierraclub.org> ). For more information about coal ash and the danger it poses to our water and to the health of communities across the United States, please see the information and reports available at *www.earthjustice.org/coalash*<http://www.earthjustice.org/coalash>. Also, the Sierra Club is in the process of creating a Federal Coal Ash Regulation listserv – stay tuned for details on how you can opt-in to the listserv. Please join us in the fight to protect all communities from the dangers of hazardous coal ash. Sincerely, Lisa Widawsky Attorney Environmental Integrity Project 1920 L Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202.263.4452 (direct) 202.294.3282 (cell) 202.296.8822 (fax) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the COAL-CAMPAIGN-FORUM list, send any message to: COAL-CAMPAIGN-FORUM-signoff-request(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha

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Re: [EC] Fw: Large-Scale Renewable Energy Guidelines, Open House with Allison Chin, and More
by James Kotcon 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

I had gotten a couple e-mails about this proposed "Large-scale Renewables" guidelines for the Club from the State Gov't Programs folks, as several of these folks have issues in their states too, e.g., Arizona Chapter. The "Off-Shore Wind" issue apparently has a separate task force, so this is mostly focused on commercial solar and wind facilities and transmission lines (like the ones in our back yard). Please look into it, as we should probably prepare comments on behalf of the Chapter. JBK >>> Jim Sconyers <jim_scon(a)yahoo.com> 11/13/2009 12:45 PM >>> Hey Jim- Have you seen this? I didn't know it was in the works - but just because we're the national epicenter, why am I not surprised...? Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. --- On Wed, 11/11/09, Clubhouse Updates <clubhouse(a)sierraclub.org> wrote: From: Clubhouse Updates <clubhouse(a)sierraclub.org> Subject: Large-Scale Renewable Energy Guidelines, Open House with Allison Chin, and More To: jim_scon(a)yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 9:07 PM Having trouble viewing our email. Click here to view a web version. Jim, The Board of Directors approved a comprehensive Club energy policy in 2006, but there are still plenty of questions that we have to address, like when to support large-scale renewable energy projects that have potential impacts on public land and the environment. Like big solar collectors in the desert, new wind farms, geothermal energy projects. That's where the Club's board task forces come in. See below for more. We also want to remind you of upcoming open house with Allison Chin on November 16 and a guided tour of the Activist Network on November 23. Seeking Comments on Large-Scale Renewable Energy Guidelines As you know, the Club supports renewable energy, both small-scale project like solar panels on home roofs and large-scale projects like wind farms. But some projects and some sites are better than others, and that's where the Transmission Line and Renewable Energy Siting Task Force comes in, to develop proposed guidelines to enable chapters and groups to assess large scale renewable energy and transmission proposals and their potential impacts on public land and the environment, and determine what the appropriate Club approach to such projects should be. Because of the grave impacts of climate change Sierra Club supports developing some large scale renewables and transmission needed to bring renewable energy to cities. Thus, the guidelines indicate conditions under which projects can be supported, where we may be neutral, and where projects may be opposed; the guidelines also focus on encouraging development in the most appropriate (lower resource value) sites as well as working to ensure necessary mitigation in sites where impacts exist but can be mitigated. You can read the guidelines here, post comments here. Comment period ends January 10. Special thanks to task force members Jim Dodson and Barbara Boyle (co-chairs), and Sandy Bahr, Clayton Daughenbaugh, John Hiatt, Connie Wilbert, Carl Zichella, and Gloria Smith. Join Allison Chin for Open House on November 16 Club President Allison Chin will be hosting an open house at 5 pm Pacific/8 pm Eastern on Monday, November 16. She talk briefly about chapter funding and the November Board meeting, where directors will be addressing the 2010 Budget as well as reports from task forces (Constituent Engagement, Fundraising). She also take questions. RSVP here. Call 1-866-501-6174 [1892-005] Take the Activist Network Guided Tour on November 23 A week after Allison's open house, at the same time and call-in number, we'll be giving another guided tour of the Activist Network — sierraclubactivistnetwork.org — where we are seeking to create a vibrant community where Club activists and supporters work together to get things done. There are plenty of opportunities to discuss and debate things and we encourage that — there are blogs and comment walls and discussion forums — but we designed the Activist Network first and foremost as a place to collaborate and accomplish things. It's a place to do work. RSVP here. Call 1-866-501-6174 [1892-005] We're still in our beta period, but about 30 teams have started creating their online community, and we welcome all national issue teams, groups, chapters, any Club entities to join as well. Team members can communicate and collaborate in a more multi-dimensional way than email, work on projects together, edit documents, brainstorm, solicit feedback, and most important of all, reach out and engage new people in their work. We welcome you to join the Monday evening call, but better yet, we encourage you to schedule a conference call with at least four members of your team. That way, we can focus not just on how to use the online community tools but on making your team site compelling and full of opportunities for interested visitors to get involved. If you have questions about the Activist Network, we've created a Help Team, where you can ask for help, and then later, once you learn the ropes, give help. Enjoy the fall. John Byrne Barry Managing Editor, Clubhouse / Activist Network Update My Profile | Manage My Email Preferences | Update My Interests Sierra Club 85 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94105

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Putting 'Green' Technology Into Bricks
by william.depaulo＠gmail.com 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

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Fw: The fate of Coal River Mountain is up to us
by Jim Sconyers 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. --- On Fri, 11/6/09, Mary Ann Hitt, Sierra Club <membership.services(a)sierraclub.org> wrote: From: Mary Ann Hitt, Sierra Club <membership.services(a)sierraclub.org> Subject: The fate of Coal River Mountain is up to us To: jim_scon(a)yahoo.com Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 8:21 PM Sierra Club #yiv1354240319 #yiv1354240319 .normal, #yiv1354240319 , #yiv1354240319 p, #yiv1354240319 td, #yiv1354240319 tr, #yiv1354240319 h1, #yiv1354240319 h2, #yiv1354240319 h3, #yiv1354240319 h4, #yiv1354240319 h5, #yiv1354240319 h6, #yiv1354240319 ul, #yiv1354240319 li, #yiv1354240319 div, #yiv1354240319 input, #yiv1354240319 textarea, #yiv1354240319 option, #yiv1354240319 select { font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-style:normal;} #yiv1354240319 .normal, #yiv1354240319 , #yiv1354240319 p, #yiv1354240319 td, #yiv1354240319 tr, #yiv1354240319 li, #yiv1354240319 div, #yiv1354240319 input, #yiv1354240319 textarea, #yiv1354240319 option, #yiv1354240319 select {font-size:12px;} #yiv1354240319 .normal {color:#000000;} #yiv1354240319 {background-color:#ffffff;} #yiv1354240319 #yiv1354240319 a {color:#333366;} #yiv1354240319 a:visited {color:#666666;} #yiv1354240319 a:hover {color:#3333ff;} #yiv1354240319 #yiv1354240319 .blackborder {border-color:#000000;} #yiv1354240319 #yiv1354240319 .smalltext {font-size:10px;} #yiv1354240319 .verysmalltext {font-size:9px;} #yiv1354240319 #yiv1354240319 H1, #yiv1354240319 .header { font-size:14px;color:#000000;font-weight:700;} #yiv1354240319 .issueheader { margin-bottom:5px;color:#669900;} #yiv1354240319 #yiv1354240319 H2, #yiv1354240319 .subtitle { font-size:12px;color:#669900;font-weight:700; } View a web version of this email. Dear Jim, Ask the Obama Administration to stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain and preserve our nation's clean energy resources. Photo Credit:Photo by Vivian Stockman / www.ohvec.org; flyover courtesy SouthWings.org The fate of Coal River Mountain is up to us. Last week, Massey Energy began setting off explosives on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia -- the site of a proposed 328-megawatt wind farm -- to prepare for a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation. Coal River Mountain could be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, 700 long-term green jobs, gives back $1.7 million in annual county taxes and stands as a model for clean energy across the region. Or it can be a 6,000-acre dirty coal mining wasteland. Contact the Obama Administration today. Ask them to immediately stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain and preserve our nation’s clean energy resources. The blasting of Coal River Mountain is also endangering lives. Blasting on Coal River Mountain could destabilize the nearby coal slurry pond, unleashing eight billion gallons of toxic sludge on homes and schools. Were the dam to fail, local residents would have mere minutes to evacuate before being overtaken by a 50-foot high wall of coal sludge. Coal River Mountain represents a crossroads -- it can be one of the most dangerous examples of mountaintop removal mining destruction for dirty coal or one of the most profound examples of hope for a clean energy future that exists in our country. We need your help to call on the Obama Administration to step in and intervene today. Ask them to stop the blasting today. Coal River Mountain must become our line in the sand. We can no longer allow fossil fuel interests to build more pipelines, belch out more pollution, and destroy more mountains that could become clean energy wind farms. The Obama Administration must save Coal River Mountain in order to show they are serious about our clean energy future. Thanks for all that you do, Mary Anne Hitt, Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign If you do not wish to receive future emails like this, click here to be removed from this type of email contact. Update My Profile | Manage My Email Preferences | Update My Interests Sierra Club 85 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94105

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PATH Agrees to Extend Procedural Schedule in West Virginia
by Frank Young 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

PATH Agrees to Extend Procedural Schedule for Power Line in West Virginia Allegheny, AEP Remain Committed to Project and 2014 In-Service Date November 4, 2009 -- Allegheny Energy (NYSE: AYE ) and American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP ) announced today that their affiliates have filed a response to a motion by the Staff of the West Virginia Public Service Commission ( PSC ) to dismiss an application to build the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline ( PATH ). In today's filing, the PATH applicants agree to postpone a decision in West Virginia if a satisfactory extension of the current procedural schedule is established. The applicants also indicated that a similar request would be filed with the Virginia State Corporation Commission. Requests for revised procedural schedules in West Virginia and Virginia - combined with a decision in the near future to seek approval for the Maryland segments of PATH - would effectively align the proceedings in the three states. It also would enable the project to meet its required in-service deadline in 2014. In September, the Maryland commission ruled that procedurally, The Potomac Edison Company, an Allegheny Energy subsidiary, may not seek authorization to construct PATH on behalf of its affiliate, PATH Allegheny Transmission Company, LLC. Citing the project's uncertainty in Maryland , commission staffs in Virginia and West Virginia last month requested dismissal, without prejudice, of the PATH application. In response to the staff motions, PATH reiterated that the overall project route and eastern terminus at the proposed Kemptown substation near New Market, Md. , remain unchanged. Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power, partners in the joint venture to build the 280-mile multi-state transmission line, remain committed to the PATH project. According to the most recent analysis by regional grid operator PJM Interconnection, PATH is needed by June 2014 to resolve reliability concerns on the existing system. For more information on the project, including maps and full state applications, please visit the project Web site at www.pathtransmission.com. This message was sent from PATH News to fyoung(a)mountain.net. It was sent from: PATH, 800 Cabin Hill Drive , Greensburg, PA 15601 . You can modify/update your subscription via the link below. Email Marketing by Manage your subscription

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MD Sierra Club newsletter all about transmission lines
by Frank Young 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

The latest newsletter of the Maryland Sierra Club is all about transmission lines. http://maryland.sierraclub.org/newsletter/

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Fwd: A new month, and a new chance to tell your story
by Paul Wilson 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

fyi, paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: West Virginia News Service WVNS <wvnsnews(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:54 PM Subject: A new month, and a new chance to tell your story To: Hi Folks, November is here, bringing with it more chances for WVNS to tell your stories. If you have anything you think is newsworthy, let me know. Even if you think it might be a little too small for statewide attention, go head and pitch it. Together we might be able to find a way to get something good out of it. After all, it couldn't be any less newsworthy the balloon-boy hoax, and look at all the attention that got. But on a more serious note, health care, global warming and the economy are all important national issues that we have covered by looking for local angles. And all of those will continue to be worth attention. So, if you have something related to one of them (or even something unrelated) definitely let me know. drh -- West Virginia News Service (WVNS) Toll Free: 1-800-317-6705 Fax: 540-301-0801 E-mail: wvns(a)publicnewsservice.org -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha

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Fwd: Click on your state below to find out what the Beyond Coal campaign is doing near you.
by Paul Wilson 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

click on the link below. pretty cool. paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Verena Owen <baumling(a)aol.com> Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM Subject: Click on your state below to find out what the Beyond Coal campaign is doing near you. To: COAL-CAMPAIGN-FORUM(a)lists.sierraclub.org Please check out and circulate this really cool new feature on our homepage: state based beyond coal information. http://sierraclub.org/coal/ Verena - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the COAL-CAMPAIGN-FORUM list, send any message to: COAL-CAMPAIGN-FORUM-signoff-request(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp To view the Sierra Club List Terms & Conditions, see: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/terms.asp -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha

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Re: [EC] new film on gas drilling
by Paul Wilson 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

BullFrog Films just announced the release of the film "Split Estate" which maps a tragedy in the making as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties. You can find more info at their website: www.bullfrogfilms.com cheers, paul -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha

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