OVEC Action Alerts Archive - 2002

OVEC Action Alerts for 2002 are archived below
Current OVEC Action Alerts

December 27, 2002  Please Come to Thursday’s MTR Plaque Meeting; Housekeeping Note; Join Us!

December 17, 2002  Coal Dust Busters Want You Wednesday; Valley Fills and Coal Industry Will Friday; Counter Coal's Crud; Plaque Removal Meeting Jan. 2 and Miner Statue Dedication Jan. 3; Help Us Get Folks out for Coal Bucket Outlaw

December 12, 2002  Join the Dust Busters v. Massey Tuesday; Act Today to Stop FCC Changes; Reminder for Dec. 10 Prayer on the Mountains; Drive to Survive; Comment on the Bush Attack on Clean Air; Comment on the Bush Attack on Forests; Buckeye Forest Council Seeks Executive Coordinator

November 27, 2002 Come See “Coal Bucket Outlaw” on Dec. 4; Rally at UK; EPA Wants to Hear from You

November 26, 2002  E-Council Fun(d)raiser Tuesday; E-Tour of Mining in Coal River Watershed; University to Mine Under Forest?; Coal PR Sinks to New Lows; Wildfire Warms Minnesota

November 19, 2002  Clay County in MTR Crosshairs; Pelosi and MTR; Your Presence Wanted at Events This Week; E-mail for the Warbler; Reminders

November 8, 2002  Couch Potato Actions; Stay the Course; M.A.P.S. to Truth (Check It Out!); Write For The Birds; Valley Fill Case Hearing; Prayer on the Mountains

October 30, 2002  Picketing Bush - Update

October 29, 2002  Radio Call-In Show on Southern WV Economic Development; Bush in Charleston

October 22, 2002  Couch Potato Alert; Action Alert: PERC UP!; Plaque Protest Proliferation; Save the Stream Gages

October 16, 2002  Plaque Flak

October 8, 2002  Hechler to Speak on Overweight Coal Trucks, On-line Maps of MTR, Hope to See You at the Flooded Out Film Festival, Meet the Candidates Forum

September 30, 2002  Please Make Calls on the National Energy Policy TODAY

September 29, 2002  Oct. 4 Pray for the Mountains; Tell Gov. Wise to take Actions on Floods and Come to Oct. 10 Flooded Out Film Festival; Slide Show on Blackwater Canyon; Take Action--Griles Has Gotta Go; Easy Web Actions.

September 28, 2002  Please join us in calling on Bush to clean up corporate influence in the administration- demand that he fire Steve Griles, Deputy Director of the Department of the Interior!!

September 23, 2002  Radio documentary on Southern. WV Floods; More OVEC Friends on Public Radio; Cooper on Alt. Energy Tomorrow; Pray for the Mountains; Mark Your Calendar—Flooded Out Film Fest Oct. 10.

September 3, 2002  Correction for Thursday Event (Rt. 94, not 93); Multicultural Festival; More Art for OVEC; Must Visit Web Site – Take Action on the Floods; Take Action TODAY For Forests; Trash or Cash?; Music for the Mountains.

August 31, 2002  Sept. 5 Coal Truck Press Conference, Followed by Memorial Service; Reminder – Labor Day Picnic; Stop MTR Banner in the Air; Mark Your Calendars Now for The Flooded Out Film Festival

August 27, 2002  Labor Day Picnic – No Overweight Coal Trucks; Quick Action for Blackwater Canyon; Bush on Fire

August 19, 2002  BBC World Today and More Calendar Items; Library of Congress Victory; Call for MTR CD Submissions

August 15, 2002  Attention Coalfield Residents

August 1, 2002  Bill Moyers on MTR and the Clean Water Act Friday (TOMORROW!) Night; Please Tell Dan Thanks; Sustainable Fair Saturday; Easy Web Action on Clean Water Act / Valley Fills; Make Your Voice Heard—Often; Help Put MTR in a Category of Its Own

July 25, 2002  Send Flood Study Comments to DEP ASAP; UPDATE: Legal Action and Massey Picnic; Art for OVEC opening is Friday 6. p.m.; Sustainable Fair Aug. 3; Easy Web Action for Blackwater Canyon

July 23, 2002  Protest Massey Saturday; Art for OVEC opening Friday; Woo Hoo--Coal Truck Victory!; NOW with Bill Moyers to do segment on MTR and Clean Water Act

July 15, 2002  Overweight Coal Truck Update

July 13, 2002  Big Push on Overweight Coal Trucks; Did you know?; Sample Coal Truck Letter 

July 10, 2002  Overweight Coal Trucks Prayer Vigil and Web Actions; Call in to Talk About a Revolution; Coal- Environmental Enemy Number One; Corrections 

July 3, 2002  Fourth of July protest during Bush's visit to Ripley, WV.

July 2, 2002  A Quick and Easy Web Action on Overweight Coal Trucks; Check Out This Massey Energy Ad

June 30, 2002  Overweight Coal Trucks--call In Tonight

June 28, 2002  Come to Kayford Mountain on July 6; Art for OVEC; Last Call on New Newsletter Name; Wanted: Save Blackwater Canyon Organizer

June 15, 2002  Coal Summit

June 10, 2002  Free Food--June 13 Stop MTR meeting reminder DC;  Congressional Hearing and Press Conference Wrap-Up;  Coal Summit Reminder;  Newsletter Naming Contest;  Procrastinators Rejoice—Still Time to Write on Valley Fill Rule Change;  Thanking Judge Haden by E-Mail

June 4, 2002  Backstreet Boys’ Kevin Richardson and Robert Kennedy, Jr. Join Us at Congressional Hearing; Help Get Coal Money Out of WV Politics; Coal Truck Hearings Continue-Please Attend; Name the Newsletter Contest

May 29, 2002  Important to ACT NOW for Congressional Hearing—Come or Write a Statement;  June 13 Mtg. Update;  Coal Summit Update;  Volunteer Drivers Needed 

May 20, 2002  Important Calendar Items! June 6 Valley Fill Congressional Hearing in DC!, June 13 Post-Haden-Decision; Strategy Meeting Turnout Needed This TUESDAY and Thursday at Overweight Coal Truck Task Force Meetings; Coal Summit; DC Wrap-up; "Vote" on MTR; Call TUESDAY on Fast Track! 

May 12, 2002  Latest on DC Bus Trip; How to Help Flood Victims; Politics, WV-style and the Environmental Impact Statement on MTR; Lecture: Globalize This!; Take Action on Fast Track 

May 9, 2002  Floods; Website postings: DC Trip Update, MTR Environmental Impact Statement and More; Bushwhacking Judge Haden Rules! Why Not Thank Him?; Personal Note Janet Fout to Speak at Memorial Day Heartwood Gathering 

April 29, 2002  ROAD TRIP! Come with us to DC to tell Bush what you think about valley fill redefinition.

April 25, 2002  Ben Stout on valley fills; Granny D on Earth Day and Laura; Endangered species talk; Other Events

April 11, 2002  ANWR; Valley Fill Action

April 9, 2002  ANWR; Massey protest; Pigeon Roost MTR permit hearing postponed; More details on energy bill.

April 4, 2002  Valley fill wrapup; Calendar items; WV Rivers Coalition job opening 

April 2, 2002  Valley fill call-in (April 3); Coal trucks; April 1 valley fill protest report

March 28, 2002  April 1 protest; Sign ideas; Valley fill call-in summary; new call-in day

March 20, 2002  Call-in day update

March 18, 2002  April 1 valley fill protest; Related valley fill information and reminders

March15, 2002  National call-in day (March 20) to oppose illegal valley fills

March 13, 2002  Calendar items

March 6, 2002  Act now to stop valley fill redefinition

March 6, 2002  Valley fills; Campaign finance reform; Black Lung Widow's March; New website feature

March 4, 2002  Valley Fill; campaign finance reform, various national concerns

Feb. 28, 2002  Coal trucks; Campaign finance reform

Feb. 26, 2002  Coal trucks; Valley fill re-definition

Feb. 24, 2002  Energy bill; New website

Feb. 18, 2002  Coal trucks, E-Day, Buffalo Creek