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Remember OVEC For Your Holiday Gifts
You can meet up with Granny D (www.grannyd.com) at 6 p.m. on Sunday Nov. 2 in Morgantown at 123 Pleasant Street. Granny D will most likely appear in Huntington next week. We'll keep you posted--check the OVEC on-line Events Calendar page.
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. at the University of Charleston Ballroom, Geary Student Union, 3rd Floor, for "Appalachians and Activism." Local mountaintop removal activists and Mari-Lynn Evans, executive producer of the upcoming PBS documentary, "The Appalachians" will discuss the coal industry's legacy and its current impact in West Virginia. Appearing with Evans will be the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition's Janet Fout and Larry Gibson, Judy Bonds and Freda Williams of Coal River Mountain Watch, as well as others. You'll get to preview excerpts from "The Appalachians." This event is sponsored by the Sierra Club. For more information, contact Anna Sale, Sierra Club Conservation Organizer at 304-550-0974 or anna.sale@sierraclub.org.
No, we are not talking bad coffee! DECAF-The Delbarton Environmental Community Awareness Foundation is holding a meeting to discuss community safety and the Delbarton (Massey Energy) coal sludge impoundment on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. at the Delbarton Elementary School. Area OVEC members are encouraged to attend. Two OVEC staffers will be present.
If you missed Cindy Rank speaking at the University of Charleston's forum on mountaintop removal, you can catch her online. Unfortunately, you will also have to listen to Massey CEO Don Blankenship's warped worldview. Count how many times he mentions the words "children" and "jobs"-if he says he cares often enough, heck, it has to be true. Go to www.wvpubcast.org/outlook/ and click on the audio button at "Mountaintop removal By Greg Collard."
Just because you are suspicious doesn't mean you shouldn't buy into conspiracy theories. OVEC staff had the opportunity to preview "The Energy Conspiracy," a 59-minute documentary produced by Hans Bulow and Poul-Eric Heilburth. The film is an exploration of influential organizations, worldwide, which lobby for the coal, oil and nuclear power industries against supporters of sustainable energy. They claim to have the support of scientists to show that the burning of fossil fuel is actually beneficial to the environment. Global warming, they say, allows a longer growing season and better crops.
The Leipzig Declaration, sponsored by Fred Singer's organization called the Science & Environmental Policy Project, is used to convince the public that global warming is a phantom problem. Signed by a group of "experts," the investigative filmmakers have discovers that the majority of signatories are not climatologists, but range from insectologists, dentists, civil engineers and lab assistants to people who cannot be found at all. The Project, not surprisingly, is funded by industry.
The film goes on to show areas of the world that have suffered defoliation, floods and other natural disasters due to changes in climate. Yet when governments allocate funds for research, 40% goes into fossil fuels, 50% into nuclear power, and just 9% into renewable energy.
We hope to raise the funds to buy this film to show at small-group meetings. (Hint!) The film is available for purchase ($325) or rental ($75) from www.filmakers.com/.
Just think where we would be in terms of truly-cleaner, renewable energies if the fossil fuel cartel didn't have such a stranglehold on our lawmakers. Think how the vote in the Senate this week on climate change would have turned out if legislators weren't duped and essentially bribed by coal, oil and gas lobbyists. Recognizing these factors, OVEC works not only to end mountaintop removal, but to advance campaign finance reform in West Virginia.
REMEMBER OVEC FOR YOUR HOLIDAY GIFTS
If you are thinking of purchasing Holiday gifts, please remember OVEC. We have fair-trade coffee (from our Leadership for a Changing World friends in Mexico), organic cotton Treehuggers' Ball T-shirts, OVEC-logo totes and our exclusive-design holiday glass ornaments (2002 edition and a few 2001 edition). E-mail vivian@ohvec.org for more information.
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