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OVEC Action Alert - April 22, 2005 |
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Earth Day Celebration in Huntington
9 p.m. tonight, April 22, join Big Rock & the Candy A*s Mountain Boys, of OVEC's Treehuggers’ Ball fame, at their CD release party! Party with fellow treehuggers at the Upperclassman, on 4th Avenue between 14th & 15th Street in Huntington, WV. No cover charge! All are welcome. CDs on sale. Come have a rocking good time! (This is not this year's Treehuggers' Ball--look for that this fall.)Check out the Huntington Herald Dispatch coverage: Big Rock and Mountain Boys celebrate release of first album
And for Those of You in Hollywood
Today, April 22: 3:30 p.m. Spielberg Theater of the Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Bob Gates' documentary about the devastating results of mountaintop removal and unregulated steep-slope timbering--"Mucked: man made disasters - flash floods in the coalfields" shown at the Artivist Film Festival: www.artivist.us.
Read about Kentuckians For The Commonwealth excellent writers’ MTR tour in Authors speak out on mining
And “vote” on mountaintop removal. Click here.
MTR in the News
Over the last several days there have been quite a few news stories about mountaintop removal, including the Friends of the Mountains’ efforts to save Blair Mountain. Find the links to these stories by clicking here.
Do you know if you live near a coal impoundment? Do you know where to go or who to call if the impoundment fails? Come to a community meeting on Tuesday, April 26 from 7-9 p.m. on the Williamson Campus of the Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College in the General Purpose Room, Fourth Floor. The agenda will include a look at the results of a survey designed to gain insight into how southern West Virginia residents view their communities, their environment, coal impoundments and other coal-mining related issues.
The community meeting is an initiative of the Coal Impoundment Project, a collaborative effort led by Wheeling Jesuit University, the Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) and the Center for Educational Technologies (CET), both located on the Wheeling Jesuit campus. These public sessions, held periodically throughout the state, inform residents of coal impoundments and the coal impoundment project and offer a forum for citizens to discuss related issues. See www.coalimpoundment.org.
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