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Sept 23-Call-In For the Forests
Easy Web Action for Clean Water
MEET WITH THE DEP CHIEF
On Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the Salamy Building in Whitesville, WV Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Stephanie Timmermeyer and other DEP officers will meet with the public (this new building is right above the swimming pool at Whitesville on Rt. 3). Reps from the Division of Forestry will be present, too. They'll answer our questions concerning mountaintop removal and other irresponsible coal-mining practices.
Some areas we expect to cover: --blackwater releases and polluted drinking water --valley fills and flooding --blasting damages to home --mine cracks/subsidence/mudslides --punch outs (water from abandoned deep mines) --slurry dams --coal dust and polluted air
If you have questions and concerns about mountaintop removal coal mining, please come to this meeting! For more information, contact: Coal River Mountain Watch at 304-854-2182.
NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY ON THE "HEALTHY" FOREST INITIATIVE
Join folks nationwide on Tuesday, Sept. 23 in a Call-In Day on the so-called "Healthy Forests Restoration Act," HR 1904. This Act has a very high likelihood of being taken up by the Senate in September. It is up to us to call on our elected leaders to stand up and protect forests and to stop the reckless assault on our National Forests by the Bush Administration. In May, when the bill was before the House of Representatives, West Virginia Representative Nick Rahall called the bill "an unprecedented attack on our judicial system and the right of Americans to appeal actions by their government which they feel are unjust."
Please call Senator Byrd and Senator Rockefeller on Sept. 23 and ask them to oppose HR 1904, the "Healthy Forests Restoration Act," and support a better alternative for community protection. The capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
Click here for talking points and more information. This action is being coordinated by www.americanlands.org.
VICTORY IN KENTUCKY!
Congratulations to OVEC member Ben Gramig and all the other young folks who worked to stop the University of Kentucky from mining Robinson Forest. Stay tuned, though. Kentucky Heartwood and Sierra Club Bluegrass Group inform us that UK has plans to log one-70th of this ecologically-rare forest every year. The students who led the campaign to save the forest warn that the coal reserves under the trees may well beckon to future UK presidents. News: Herald Leader, Herald Leader, Courier Journal
EASY WEB ACTION
Take action to protect the Clean Water Act by going to: www.SavetheCleanWaterAct.org.
DINING OUT FOR CLEAN WATER IN FAYETTEVILLE
Help out our friends at West Virginia Rivers Coalition on Sept. 27-just by eating out! See www.wvrivers.org/dining.htm.
REMINDERS
We need you in Beckley on Sept. 22. Read this action alert.
Be sure to check out all sorts of upcoming events. Check OVEC's events calendar.
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