The Coal Summit

June 20-22, 2002
Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, WV

To receive registration materials, email your name, address, and organization if appropriate to dave@ohvec.org or outreach@appvoices.org.  Registration fee is $20, but for students, coalfield residents, and folks with modest incomes, the $20 registration fee is optional (see Honorariums below).

The Summit will consist of lecture/workshop presentations, field trips to nearby coalfield communities such as Whitesville, and plane flights over the nearby mountaintop removal mines and declining forests.

Presentations at the Summit will be organized around the concept of “the true cost of coal,” and will include panel speakers on

• Coal Mining Impacts, Human and Environmental
• Air Pollution Impacts, Human and Environmental
• Alternatives to Coal as an Energy Source
• Politics of Coal

The organizations involved in the planning of the Summit are Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, American Rivers, Appalachian Voices, Citizens Coal Council, Clean Air Task Force, Coal River Mountain Watch, Friends of the Earth, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Mountain Watershed Association, National Parks Conservation Association, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and Tri-State Citizens Mining Network.

For further information about the Coal Summit contact OVEC 304-522-0246, dave@ohvec.org or Appalachian Voices, 828-262-1500, outreach@appvoices.org.

For more information see the links in the sidebar.  You may also visit the Appalachian Voices website. 

Honorariums

Groups sponsoring the Coal Summit recognize that citizens who are directly impacted by coal mining MUST participate for the event to be successful. In order to encourage the maximum participation of affected citizens, honorariums covering the registration fees will be made available. We will do our best to provide honorariums to all coalfield residents who are directly affected by coal mining, but since funding is limited, we must ask that you pre-register by June 15th so that available funds can be fairly distributed.