May 23 |
OVEC Action
Alert Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition |
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Reminder:
May 24 Stand Up to Massey For the Sake of the Kids
As Massey Energy's stockholders
attend their annual meeting in New York City, join Coal River Mountain
Watch, OVEC and others for a protest near a Massey subsidiary's coal
processing facility, coal sludge dam and mountaintop removal operation
that we believe endanger schools kids and their teachers. We want to let
Massey stockholders know their profits come at a huge cost to our kids!
Click here for
complete details.
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| This Massey Energy sludge dam, middle left of photo, holds back 2.8 billion gallons of toxins (the black "pond" upper left), pointed directly at the Marsh Fork Elementary, which is the buildings by the green playground at right. Photo by Vivian Stockman and thanks to Southwings.org. |
Take Action No
Matter Where You Live--by May 26
Appalachian Voices reports that the Clean
Water Protection Act will be reintroduced in Congress by the end of May.
The Clean Water Protection Act will would prohibit coal companies from
burying our streams with mining waste. Please contact your
Representatives today and urge them to become an original co-sponsor of
the Clean Water Protection Act. The deadline for Representatives to
become an original co-sponsor is May 26. This doesn't leave much time,
which is why we need your action TODAY. Click
here for more information.
Appalachian Voices reports that the Clean Water Protection Act will be reintroduced in Congress by the end of May. The Clean Water Protection Act will would prohibit coal companies from burying our streams with mining waste. Please contact your Representatives today and urge them to become an original co-sponsor of the Clean Water Protection Act. The deadline for Representatives to become an original co-sponsor is May 26. This doesn't leave much time, which is why we need your action TODAY. Click here for more information.
There are three ways you can contact your
Representative:
LETTER: At this time it is most effective to write your Representatives
and Senators at their district offices, as mail delivery to DC
Congressional offices continues to be slowed by security measures. See
www.house.gov to find contact
information.
PHONE: Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-225-3121.
EMAIL: Find your Representative's email address at
www.house.gov.
Points to make in your letter:
* The Clean Water Act of 1977 is meant to PROTECT, not bury, our rivers
and streams.
* More than 400,000 acres in West Virginia alone have been leveled, and
mountaintop removal mining has destroyed an estimated total of a million
acres of Appalachia's mountains.
* Across the Appalachian coalfields, more than 1,200 MILES of streams
are now buried and destroyed by mountaintop removal mining practices.
* The Clean Water Protection Act is necessary to protect clean water AND
the lives of Appalachian coalfield residents who are threatened by
catastrophic flooding due to filling streams with mining waste.
If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to
contact Lenny Kohm or Christina Wulf at Appalachian Voices, 877-277-8642
or
apptreasures@appvoices.org.
Sign a
Petition Calling for an End to MTR
Click
here to e-sign the Sierra Club's petition calling for an end to
mountaintop removal and all steep-slope mining.
May 28
Reminder: Mountain Justice Summer Open House
All members of groups working to end
mountaintop removal are invited to attend the Mountain Justice Summer (MJS)
Open House, Saturday May 28 at the Appalachian South Folklife
Center near Pipestem State Park in southeast West Virginia. Join MJS for
workshops on Appalachian culture and coal mining and mountaintop removal
all day Saturday, followed by musical entertainment/line dancing
Saturday night. Workshop may include: Making Our Own Media:;
Coalfields Listening Project; Street Theater; First Aid; Plant
Identification and more. Evening: Potluck supper; film on organizing:
Chicken Run; Music. Participants are asked to bring a potluck dish
to share and a small donation to cover costs of this event. Mountain
Justice Summer is a volunteer-led event and our goal is to keep costs to
a minimum! The Folklife Center offers a fully-equipped kitchen and
appliances.
Directions: From Charleston take I-64 to Beckley. Stay on I-64 east at
the split with I-77. At exit 139 go south on WV Route 20, and stay on 20
through the town of Hinton. Watch the signs through Hinton as this is a
little confusing - just stay on 20 South. Follow signs for Pipestem
State Park. 1/4 mile before you reach the entrance to the State Park,
turn left on Indian Ridge Rd. Go 1/2 mile and take the second left on
Rocky Mount Rd. The entrance to the Folklife Center is 8/10 mile on the
right. For more information about the Mountain Justice Summer Open
House, email mntjustice@yahoo.com.
www.ohvec.org 304-522-0246 vivian@ohvec.org |
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