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Call for the Artic Again-Today and Tomorrow!
APRIL 21 PRE-EARTH DAY EVENT-PRESS CONFERENCE OUTSIDE JOHN AMOS POWER PLANT
West Virginia has the nation's second-highest rate of mortality due to power plant pollution--and the plant burns coal from mountaintop removal. (Kentucky is number one.) Join us at 1:30 p.m. (OVEC, Coal River Mountain Watch, Citizens Coal Council and others) for a pre-Earth Day press conference outside the John Amos power plant in St. Albans. We'll provide the breathing masks for you to wear! Call the office at 522-0246 or e-mail dave@ohvec.org or vivian@ohvec.org if you want directions to our meeting spot.
Do you have your tickets yet for OVEC's April 18 fundraiser performance of "Final Assault"? Are you ready to get your 2003 Tree Huggers' T-shirt at the Tree Huggers' Ball on April 25? Have you registered yet for the Free Trade of the Americas conference (please register ASAP!) on May 17? Have you heard about the Good, the Bad, the Ugly (and the beautiful) Tour May 23-25?
To get the details on these events, check OVEC's Event Calendar.
VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAINTOP--MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IN THE WOODS
Check out Heartwood's 13th Annual Forest Council which includes our own Janet Fout, as well as lesser know folks like actor Woody Harrelson and Rep. Cynthia McKinney. Info is up www.heartwood.org. This event is held at Camp Blanton, a boy scout camp with rustic accommodations, adjacent to a globally-significant nature preserve of extraordinary beauty, old-growth Blanton Forest State Nature Preserve, nestled in the Appalachian Mountains near Harlan, KY. See www.blantonforest.org
The West Virginia Interfaith Global Climate Change Campaign has openings for part-time (less than 20 hours per month) regional coordinators - one coordinator for the Western Region and one for the Eastern Region of West Virginia. For information, contact Marcia Leitch at jmleitch@mountain.net. Application deadline: April 30, 2003
TODAY AND WEDNESDAY PLEASE CALL AGAIN ON THE ARCTIC! (WHAT PART OF "NO" DON'T THEY UNDERSTAND?)
The House of Representatives will vote soon on national energy legislation, the Orwellian-named Energy Security Act of 2003 or HR 6, which authorizes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The bill also proposes a flawed and unsustainable energy policy that would cause more global warming, more pollution, and more mountain destruction.
(If you don't know who your rep is, enter your zip code to get her/his name and number: at www.care2.com/go/z/5142.)
Call 1-877-703-9491 (toll-free) or call the Capitol Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121. Ask for your Representative. Tell your Rep.'s aide that you are calling about the "Energy Security" Act. Ask your Rep. to support the NO ARCTIC DRILLING amendment.
You could add the following:
I also encourage you to reject the overall energy bill. Overly reliant on fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas, this proposal is a short-sighted approach to our country's energy future. As a nation, we hold only 3 percent of the world's reserves of oil, yet we consume almost 25 percent of the world's daily production. As long as this is the case, we will remain dependent on world oil markets, and we will pay the world price for oil, whether it is produced domestically or abroad.
The safest and fastest way to increase our energy security is to improve the energy efficiency of our cars, trucks, homes, factories, and offices, and to increase the use of renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar, and geothermal. Simply increasing fossil fuel production, at the expense of the wilderness areas and wildlife we all cherish, will not buy America energy security--in either the short or the long run.
Calls are more effective, but you can also take action on the web at these sites: http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org/ctt.asp?u=41249&l=2012 http://takeaction.worldwildlife.org
Remember J. Steven Griles? (click here for refresher) He's second in charge at the Department of Interior and a "former" big-time lobbyist for coal and oil interests. His scent is all over some rule changes the Bush administration has made to benefit the coal industry. Senator Lieberman is seeking a probe into Griles' compliance with ethics agreements he signed. Read Sen. Lieberman's press release on Griles at: www.senate.gov/~lieberman/press/03/04/2003407935.html
Griles has got to go!
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