OVEC Action Alerts Archive - 2006

OVEC Action Alerts for 2006 are archived below
Current OVEC Action Alerts

December 15, 2006 Congratulations to Ed and Maria! -- WOC On (Line) -- Legal Victory 1: Cumulative Impact is Cumulative Impact -- No Matter Where You Live... -- No Matter What DEP Says, Toxic Sludge is Not Good For You -- Legal Victory 2: OVEC Members Prevail over Pocahontas Land Co. -- Meanwhile, in Tennessee...

November 13, 2006 In Huntington, WV--OVEC Benefit Art Show Hours This Week -- In Charleston, WV--Please Attend These Meetings This Week -- Nationwide--Please Send In Your Comments -- Everybody's a Landscaping Critic--A Quick Guide to Mountaintop Removal -- Calling All College Students--Alternative Spring Break March 2007

November 7, 2006 Predicted Low Voter Turnout = More Weight to Your Vote -- No Matter Where You Live, Your Comments Are Needed -- Events and Meeting Around WV Where Your Presence Can Make A Difference -- Why comment on the Spruce Environmental Impact Statement?  -- Why comment on the Corps' Proposed Nationwide Permits?

November 3, 2006  Music Nov. 10: Treehuggers' Ball --Party on the Barge on the Ohio River!  -- Art and Music Nov. 11: Bob Ross Don't Live Here No More -- Help Spread the Word About Both Events -- Vote, Vote, Vote -- Black Diamonds Showing Nov. 5 in Charleston -- New: OVEC's Online Store

October 18, 2006  Oct. 20, 21 in Huntington: Free Writing Workshops, Mountaintop Removal Focus -- No Excuses: Vote! Early Voting Begins Today. -- News from the Slurry and Well Water Legislative Hearing, and the Writers' Tour -- Nov. 10 and 11: Treehuggers, Mountain Huggers, and Art and Music Lovers Unite! -- Blackwater Canyon Needs Your Help

October 11, 2006  Reminder: Is God Green on Public TV Tonight--Watch for People You Know! -- Come on Down to the Courtroom Tomorrow -- We Need Your Calls This Week, Your Presence Monday -- Then,We Need You Again Tuesday -- Wait A Minute--I Don't Live Close Enough to Travel to These Events

October 8, 2006  Trial Continues Tuesday, October 10 -- Moyers on America Oct. 11

September 29, 2006 Noon Press Conference Saturday and Weekend E-Council Gathering -- Mountaintop Removal Lawsuit in Huntington Starting Tuesday -- Please Call or E-mail for the Final Blair Mountaintop Removal Permit Study -- OVEC Benefit Art Show: Donations Needed for Printing and Supplies -- Stop the Hate / Start the Healing -- Is God Green?

September 7, 2006 Pennies of Promise Update and Call to Action:  Sept. 13 in DC -- If You Can't Make It To DC: Sept 12 -- While in DC: Look for These Ads -- Also on Sept. 12, In Institute, W. Va. -- Other Events: E-Council's Fall Gathering, More -- Calling All Artists -- Latest Winds of Change Newsletter On-Line

August 30, 2006 Where's Ed? Join Him in Person or Support Him by Phone on Sept. 12 -- Your Calls Made a Difference! -- Mountain Mourning -- Mark Your Calendars for Events Near and Far

August 4, 2006  Walking Because Every Kid Deserves A Safe School -- Walking Into DC During Stop MTR Week -- The Roots of Organizing For Change: When Miners March

July 31, 2006  9 a.m. Wednesday August 2: Help Ed Wiley Launch the Pennies of Promise Walk -- Call to Action: August 4-6 -- Aug. 22: Massey in Court Alleging Character Defamation -- Aug. 3: Bob Edwards Interview on West Virginia Public Radio -- In September, D. Blankenship Goes to DC to Lobby Against Mountaintop Removal -- More Calendar Items

July 28, 2006  Today: Bob Edwards Radio Documentary Airs on XM Satellite Radio  -- Wednesday August 2: Help Kick off Pennies of Promise Walk

July 17, 2006 Stop Correll--Please Act Today or Tomorrow; Hearing Thursday July 20 -- Sample Letter to Oppose Correll Nomination to Head OSM -- Nag, nag, nag--Go O! -- Reminder:  Take Action for Marsh Fork Elementary

July 12, 2006  July 24: Stop DEP From Granting Massey a Second Coal Silo Near Elementary School -- Aug. 2 -Sept. 12: Pennies of Promise Walk  -- July 13: The Growing Divide--Inequality and the Roots of Economic Insecurity -- Aug. 3-4; Sept. 10-14: Save the Dates for Stop Mountaintop Removal Actions -- July 20: Hearing on DEP's Mercury Study -- More Calendar Items -- The Route for the Pennies Of Promise Walk -- Should the WVU-Marshall game be called the Coal Bowl? "Vote" No!

July 6, 2006  By July 10--Keep Correll From Heading Mining "Regulation" Agency -- O Please! -- Tell DEP to Keep Our Rivers and Streams Clean--Write Letters; Hearing July 10 -- The Roanoke Times (Va.) Examines Mountaintop Removal -- Save the Dates

June 30, 2006  Correction: Take Action with PSC for Renewable Energy in West Virginia -- Sample letter to PSC for Net Metering -- Reminder: Oprah Needs to Hear From You -- An Inconvenient Truth Showing in West Virginia -- Reminder: Take this E-Action for the Mountains--Deadline Today, June 30

June 28, 2006  For the Mountains: Take This E-Action by June 30 -- Call Now, Please, to Save the Internet -- Dioxin Still Kills: Take Action

June 22, 2006  Clean Money Equals Clean Elections--Learn More on Clean Money Day -- O (as in Oprah!) Features OVEC Staffer and Other W.Va. Women Fighting Abusive Coal Industry  -- What Happened to the Nightline segment on Marsh Fork Elementary? -- Al Gore's Film on Global Warming Will Show in Huntington and Morgantown

June 14, 2006  Tonight: Marsh Fork Elementary on National News and Nightline! -- Two Reminders

June 12, 2006  Check the TruthOut: News Videos of Healing Mountains  --  Keep Fox From Guard Duty At Henhouse--Call Today  --  Speaking of Spadaro--Come out June 20 for Appalshop's Buffalo Creek Films  --  Sign the Save Blackwater Canyon Petition Online  --  June 24 Come to Lavender Fair; Volunteer Needed  -- Tonight: DEP Public Meeting In Van on New Coal Prep Plant  -- An Excellent Read: Big Coal

May 19, 2006  Help Stop a Mountaintop Removal Mine -- Please Comment by May 31  -  OVEC booklet delivered to Massey Energy Board of Directors and Shareholders  -  Bush Nominates Coal Industry Apologist to Head Office Of Surface Mining

May 12, 2006  Register Online for Healing Mountains; Memorial Day Weekend  -  Comment Period Deadline Extended; We'll Need You to Comment by May 31  -  Coalfield Residents Pave Way for Grassroots Voice in U.N.  --  May 13: Harlan County, USA  --  May 16: Massey Shareholders Annual Meeting in Richmond, Va.  --  May 23: Coal Truck Hearing  --  Mountaintop Removal Resisters in the News

April 27,2006  May Day! Calling All Mountain Defenders! -- Don Blankenship and you

April 13,2006  Vote. Vote. Vote. -- Save the Mountains. Advance Clean Elections. Have Fun. -- May Day! Calling All Mountain Defenders! -- Healing Mountains -- Save Energy, Mountains and Money -- Join Mountain Justice Summer 2006 -- Take Action for Clean Rivers -- Earth Day Every Day

April 7, 2006  Tonight in Huntington: E. O. Wilson on The Future of Life -- Save the Dates for Two Events Where We Would Love to See You! -- Peruse the News on the Stop Mountaintop Removal Movement -- Things You Can Do to Help End Mountaintop Removal -- Public Hearing on Spruce No. 1 Mine Environmental Impact Statement -- More Upcoming Events

March 8, 2006  Join Us This Saturday: Black Diamonds -- More of Our Stop Mountaintop Removal Efforts in the News -- Sludge Safety Efforts in the Newspapers, Too -- March 22: When Miners March -- March 30: Values and the Future of Democracy

February 23, 2006  Buffalo Creek Day Monday--Note Time and Location Change -- Clean Elections Bill Needs Your Help -- National Geographic on Mountaintop Removal -- Other Upcoming events

February 18, 2006  Mountaintop Removal in National Media--Again -- Support the Sludge Safety Bill--Write Letters to the Editor -- Monday, in Person or with Calls, Help Stop Anti-Wilderness Drive in WV Senate -- Clean Elections Clears Senate Judiciary, Needs Your Help in Senate Finance -- Buffalo Creek Films Feb. 25 in Man, Feb. 27 at the State Capitol

February 16, 2006  Take Action for Clean Elections -- Please Call, Ask Your Delegate to Support Sludge Safety Legislation -- Please Join Sludge Safety Project Feb. 27 at the State Capitol -- Reminder House Party for Coalfield U.N. Delegation this Saturday -- "Lost Mountain" Author on NPR's Living on Earth this Sunday -- WOC On (Line) -- Friends of Blackwater Job Opportunities -- Feb. 23: Give Rove a Special WV Greeting -- Healing Mountains: Save the Date--Memorial Day Weekend

February 10, 2006  Help Clean Elections Bill Advance --Come Out Monday-- Help Clean Elections Bill Advance --Call Today and Monday  -- Press Conference for Sludge Safety on E-Day! Tues, Feb. 14 -- Kanawha County Residents Please Make Calls -- House Party to Help Send a Coalfield Delegation to the UN -- All About E-Day! and E-Day “Valentine’s Soiree”

January 25, 2006 Tonight in Charleston: Buffalo Creek Films -- Miners, Sludge, Disasters, Action for Safety -- Protect Blackwater Canyon--Write Today -- Save These Dates

January 11, 2006 Memorial Service for Sago Miners; Fund for Families -- Act by Jan. 13 to stop a toxic move by EPA -- Orion belts it out: Telling the story of mountaintop removal -- Waterkeeper: The Coal Truth -- Buffalo Creek, Take Two? -- Alito a No No -- Calendar of events -- Pictures say it all: J. Henry Fair photos of mountaintop removal -- Kayford Mountain: What's left of it

January 3, 2006  Underground miners in peril -- Mountaintop removal in national publications -- Up the impact of the publications--write a letter to the editor -- Join us in Huntington Jan. 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial March -- Mark Your Calendar...