(May)  Archive - June, 2005  (Jul)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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6-30	Richmond paper: Two arrested in protest at Massey; Activists seek closing of firm's coal-mining complex near school in W.Va. town - Beckley Register Herald: 2 arrested as Coal River group visits Massey headquarters - Coalfield citizens arrested delivering demands to Massey headquarters - State Journal and affiliated TV: Locals Arrested At Massey Protest
6-30	Protest set July 8  (...and meanwhile...Massey Energy Honors Environmental Award Winners The gall! Remember this 02/13/2004 Charleston Gazette news story by Ken Ward Jr.: "A Massey Energy Co. subsidiary could face fines of up to $40 million in a new lawsuit that alleges nearly 2,000 days worth of water pollution violations. The federal court lawsuit alleges that Massey's Sidney Coal Co. in Pike County, Ky., routinely violates its legal water pollution limits.")
6-30	'Appalachian Spring Postponed' takes a look at politics in W.Va. (Taylor is an OVEC board member and Straight is an OVEC intern)
6-30	Mountain Justice Summer sweeps through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee
6-30	A Fossilized Energy Bill
6-30	EPA faces fight on mercury policy - Greenpeace tests for mercury pollution on Cape Cod
6-30	Take Action: E-Letter on Global Warming
6-30	No nuclear, no coal ... wind yes! - Nuke power unsafe, renewable sources hold key: British report
6-30	Maine Solar Energy Bill Signed Into Law - Large-scale solar energy project planned for PSU
6-30	Calif. farmers clean up using solar power; They save on energy costs, and air quality improves
6-30	Sunshine mapping from space means brighter solar energy future
6-30	ETHANOL’S POTENTIAL: Looking Beyond Corn - Fuel for the future?
6-30	Look beyond conventional coal plants (As long as there is mountaintop removal and Big Coal's money in politics there is no such thing as "clean" coal!) - Senate fuels gasification project
6-30	Arch Coal CEO elected to USG board
6-30	Second Central Appalachian railroad transportation case settled
6-30	Work hours of Chinese coalminers to be limited to 8 - China wants to cut coal miners' work day (Shoot! Wonder if Friends of Coal will still want to emulate China?)
6-30	Energy: China's burning ambition
6-30	Future Climate Could be Hotter than Thought - Study - Clearing smoke may trigger global warming rise - Beckett Warns over Global Warming Weather Damage - As the heat rises, so do concerns for elderly
6-30	Global Warming May Unleash "Sand Seas" in Africa, Model Shows - One in six countries facing food shortage
6-30	Global warming makes sea less salty; Researchers predict effects on 'conveyor belt' of ocean currents - Oceans at risk from global warming-scientists
6-30	Global warming might create lopsided planet
6-30	Pressure builds on US over global warming - US won't be persuaded on Kyoto: Blair
6-30	Does dirty air cool the climate?
6-30	Fuel Cell Cars Face Bumpy Road Despite $60 Oil - Honda Leases First Fuel Cell Vehicle to a Family
6-29	Coal River Mountain Watch pleased with Manchin meeting
6-29	Group to take concerns to Massey headquarters
6-29	Water rules: The Gazette told you so
6-29	C8 a 'likely carcinogen,' EPA panel concludes
6-29	International Coal Group Adds Planning and Acquisition Executive
6-29	High court clears coal-fired plant
6-29	Sunny California: Promising energy source - Farmers Counting on Sun for Energy - How to brighten solar power's future - Extra solar power to be sold to TVA - APS helps pay for solar panels - Wineries go solar
6-29	Amendment's defeat 'not end of world,' speaker maintains
6-29	US Senate Passes Energy Bill, House Talks Loom - Senate OK on energy bill sets up battle - Energy bill boosts chances of building Iron Range coal plant - Senate energy bill offers boost for Westinghouse nuclear plants
6-29	Five states sue Allegheny Energy
6-29	Micro-power hailed as cheap, safe energy of future; Thinktank sees nuclear subsidy as bar to full use of renewables
6-29	Nuclear power 'too slow' and small-scale renewable overlooked - Cancer Risk Linked to Radiation Exposure
6-29	Environmentalists Angry over French Nuclear Project - France to Host World's First Nuclear Fusion Plant - Five Facts about ITER Nuclear Fusion Project - Nuclear Project could Solve Energy Woes - Scientist - France Will Get Fusion Reactor To Seek a Future Energy Source
6-29	Which would Blair prefer - an ID card or a windmill? - G8 climate negotiations very difficult - Chirac
6-29	G8 Leaders' Cars to Use Eco-Fuel made from Straw
6-29	Global Warming to Raise Storm Damage Costs - Finance Giant Allianz wants G8 Climate Change Move - Climate Changes to Push Up Insurance Fees
6-29	Russia Signs First Kyoto Project, More Seen
6-29	Sales of Hybrid, Diesel Cars Seen Surging in United States
6-29	Coal trains and traffic in Gallatin
6-29	Energy efficiency makes great difference
6-28	Public should say no to wrong mining practices
6-28	Manchin blames scare tactics for bond vote failure - Bond loses, but Manchin might get new options - Don Blankenship is 2-for-2 in election battles in seven months - Most southern counties favored pension bond
6-28	Federal flood insurance
6-28	Company trying to protect bats
6-28	Senate Energy Bill Faces GOP Opposition - Key Provisions of US Senate Energy Bill
6-28	Nemacolin developer gets key permit - Power plant plans in Greene County advance
6-28	Virginia coal: Hard facts
6-28	Canada to reduce mercury emissions
6-28	Alternate Power: A Change Is In The Wind
6-28	The Impending Decline of Saudi Oil Output
6-28	Scientists expect go-ahead for nuclear fusion reactor
6-28	Blair poised to say Yes to more nuclear power - Taiwan phases out all nuclear power, for coal
6-28	Climate change 'to drown Britain' - Nightmare vision of underwater Britain
6-28	Blair Admits G8 Climate Deal "Very Difficult"
6-28	Europe may force airlines to pay for CO2 emissions
6-28	A wild idea to fight global warming: Artificial space ring could shade Earth, group proposes
6-28	Global Warming May Alter Atlantic Currents, Study Says
6-28	The Race to Alaska Before It Melts
6-28	"Lite" solar water heater - A hot source of energy - Biofuel Crops seen Aiding Scottish Cereals Sector
6-28	New Study Weighs Promises, Pitfalls of Hydrogen Cars
6-27	Coal Mountain: After 28 years, the war rages on between mountain communities and the coal industry - Save the mountains, save money
6-27	Pension funding turns to general revenue; Defeat of bond proposal means money will come from budget - W.Va. opts for old debts over new by rejecting pension bond plan
6-27	Supreme Court Justice Brent Benjamin was in Washington this month, reportedly to meet with GOP mastermind Karl Rove. Speculation is that the party could be grooming Benjamin for a federal judgeship. (scroll down for this blurb)
6-27	Settlement of coal transport case leaves pay question unanswered
6-27	Fate of energy bill won't affect plans to build Wyoming coal gasification plant, say DKRW Energy officials - Kansas counties begin bid for Westar Energy coal plant, 200 jobs - Coal plant plans announced - Power task force to talk about health - Court urged to toss company's suit
6-27	Geologists take another look at Appalachians in search of oil
6-27	New Wild West: The price of Bush's drive for energy
6-27	Behind China's Bid for Unocal: A Costly Quest for Energy Control - The Chinese Challenge - Quenching America's growing thirst for oil
6-27	US and Europe weigh in on nuclear energy
6-27	Global warming’s pace could devastate Africa - Alpine areas the litmus test of global warming
6-27	Wilted Europe eyes global warming (and air conditioners)
6-27	Can We Bury Global Warming? Pumping carbon dioxide underground to avoid warming the atmosphere is feasible, but only if several key challenges can be met
6-27	Kyoto Protocol Waste of Cash or Green Lifeline? - Green message 'goes straight to the bottom line'
6-27	New Hi. law: easier to install solar panels - California Governor's Solar Plan Is Generating Opposition - Former Miller site turning into one-of-a-kind facility - Villagers in Eastern Nepal using solar lamp
6-26	W.Va. rejects pension bonds; Measure fails 46 percent to 54 percent - Special Bond Amendment Vote Boils Down to Two Millionaires Going Mano a Mano
6-26	Opposing views on Massey Energy facility looming over Marsh Fork Elementary (See first two letters. Exercise your right to free speech--write a letter to the editor!)
6-26	Destructive mining practices robbing us of our heritage
6-26	Coal protests are reminiscent of a cartoon show
6-26	C8 testing to start in July
6-26	After 10-day wait, Thackers allowed to return home - Cambrian Coal needs to do the right thing - Cambrian hit with citations
6-26	Concerns arise over Bush's pick for EPA job; Lawyer works for firm that represents W.R. Grace, others
6-26	Britain's top climatologist says a G8 fudge on global warming could be disastrous
6-26	Rising power demand unearths coal dilemma; New gasification method is expensive, but cleaner (And there's the mega-problem of mountaintop-removal-mined coal...)
6-26	Coal stock prices are smokin' in June
6-26	Chinese Strength, U.S. Weakness
6-26	Mercury a lingering problem despite attempts at regulation
6-26	Exhibition Coal Mine offers a look into the past
6-26	Coal train derails in Colorado, strands Amtrak passengers
6-26	Parking lot's 'solar trees' offer shade, provide power - Developers buy into efficiency of solar energy
6-26	African aid useless without action on climate change - Global warming threat to waterfowl
6-26	Douglas L. Faulkner Named Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
6-26	What's so Revolutionary about Venezuelan Coal?
6-25	W.Va. set to vote on bond proposal
6-25	U.S. Court Backs Bush's Changes on Clean Air Act - Read the Decision  (JBK notes: This ruling overturns a portion of the Bush Administration's efforts at weakening the New Source review rules. These rules were adopted by WV-DEP this year (Reg 14 and 19) and approved by the Legislature in April, in spite of our complaints that they would weaken air quality protections, would damage public health, and were being challenged in court. Next year, when we go to the Legislature, we can say "We told you so". And we should start in July when WV-DEP holds a public hearing on their efforts to adopt Bush's Mercury Rollback Rules, (also damaging to air quality and public health and also being appealed in court).)
6-25	Appalachia presentation to be held twice
6-25	Military interested in coal-to-fuel technology
6-25	More Cash for Clean Energy
6-25	Schwarzenegger's solar-roof plan could get sidelined by partisan squabbling
6-25	Energy bill may hinge on MTBE fund - Energy bills: Gridlock is still looking good - Proposed ban on additive ignites debate
6-25	Coal rush? Power project signals boom, debate
6-25	Researchers hope to reduce 'greenhouse gas' emissions
6-25	Utah court hearing is blow to coal mine bosses’ libel suit
6-25	Pilot solar power-plant delivers promising results - Solar water heaters made mandatory in buildings in Tamu Nadil
6-25	Europe divided on the nuclear option; The debate rages on how to respond to global warming
6-25	Coal train hits stranded pickup truck
6-25	Grassroots risk: living with heavy metal contamination
6-25	Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert’s Peak - Oil shale could produce within a decade, congressman says - Energy execs say West could rival Saudi Arabia
6-25	China's appetite for coal claims the lives of 6000 miners every year, reports
6-24	Wildlife, coal advocates hold talks - 'Dialogue' looks at wildlife issues; Industry, conservationists discuss use of mined lands - Conference promotes use of once-mined lands for wildlife
6-24	Pension bond voting hopes high; 19,121 cast early ballots; figure encourages state officials - Turnout May Be Key to Bond Election - 1.7 percent of voters cast early ballots in bond issue - Feelings heat up in $5.5 billion pension bond issue
6-24	Ross to move International Coal Group headquarters to W.Va. - Massey Energy Company acquires Great Western Coal (scroll down)
6-24	County discusses new voting tools - Saturday's Vote Will Be End Of An Era
6-24	Property and rights (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools, use them!)
6-24	Save the mountains
6-24	DuPont-DEP meeting on Wood C8 dump set
6-24	Uncle Sam calls on Wyo coal
6-24	Blowing the whistle on climate change: Interview with Rick Piltz
6-24	Green Tinge Is Attracting Seed Money to Ventures
6-24	A Comparison of Senate - House Energy Bills - U.S. Senate Completes Debate, Sets Vote on Energy Legislation - Senate Nears Completion of Energy Bill; Conflict Expected with House
6-24	Wind farms breezing through Britain - Thais told to save energy as oil bills rise - ASEAN discuss renewable energy to boost power output - Use renewable energy, Tanzanians advised - Developing countries receive boost for renewable energy under new UN plan
6-24	China Says Coal Imports Up 59 Percent
6-24	Bush cold-shoulders global warming plea
6-24	Carmakers Must do More to Cut CO2 Pollution – EU
6-24	European Coal Burning, Greenhouse Emissions Higher in 2003
6-24	Global warming will bring fiercer hurricanes - Global warming evident in Timor Sea corals, say scientists - Global warming study provides cold comfort for north Europeans
6-24	Malaysia Biofuel to Get Green Light Soon – Minister
6-23	Report details contamination in some Mingo wells (OVEC staffers have worked extensively with residents in Mingo whose wells are contaminated. People believe coal companies are injecting coal slurry into abandoned underground mines and that the slurry ends up in their water. We've seen the water coming out of people's taps--black! Many families have a filed a lawsuit against the company they believe has contaminated their wells, which, years ago, before the slurry injection started, were clean.)
6-23	U.S. attorney top pick for filling Judge Haden's post
6-23	TAKE ACTION! Support a new direction on energy! - Say No To Nukes In Energy Bill - Stop the Nuclear Power Hustle
6-23	Bush Calls for More US Nuclear Energy - Bush Touts Nuclear Energy - Bush: U.S. Needs More Nuclear Power Plants - On a Rare Visit, Bush Talks Up Atomic Power
6-23	Fiore Cartoon on Nuclear Energy
6-23	US Senate Rejects Mandatory Emissions Cuts - Energy bill could bring offshore drilling to Virginia's coastal areas - - Global warming rider shot down by Senate
6-23	Bond ad budgets soaring -  Blankenship Tells Teachers to Stop Ads - Tug of War - In Politics, Don't Mess With the Don - Few Voters Cast Early Ballots - Pension Bond Issue - Frank Bellinetti, David Haney, Kenny Perdue, Karen Price, Cecil Roberts, Steve Roberts and Cecil H. Underwood
6-23	Protest coverage scant (scroll down; letters to the editor are great tools--use them!)
6-23	Oceana receives flood mitigation funding (Your tax dollars paying for Big Coal's profits / externalized costs)
6-23	Miners compete in regional event
6-23	Emission projects OK'd for LG&E, Kentucky Utilities
6-23	Pa. Struggling to Prevent Death in Mines
6-23	Coal power plant proposal alarms environmentalists and Illinois - Wis. Power Plant Project Causes Alarm
6-23	Global Warming and Economic Development (pdf) - Global warming threatens Tibet rail link
6-23	Bush set to shun G8 allies on global warming - 'Earthy evangelist' changes US climate - Global warming: Blair must protect G-8 position
6-23	G8 Decision on Fusion would Herald Nuclear Future
6-23	EU Wants 20 Percent Cut in Energy Use by 2020
6-23	Standby Britain: How it fuels our energy crisis
6-23	EU Approves Coal Rescue Plan for Poland
6-23	European Industry Squeezed by Surging Power Prices - Taiwan lagging in renewable energy - Taiwan Takes Tentative Steps on CO2 Emissions - Renewable energy 'will struggle to pay its way' - Rules move ahead on renewable energy credits in Idaho
6-23	China's growth sums just don't add up for the planet
6-23	Combustible dust plagues plants
6-22	A conversation with convicted ecoterrorist Jeff Luers
6-22	Science Under Siege By Bush Administration, ACLU Charges
6-22	Manchin pitches pension proposal to voters - Pro and con campaigns pick up pace as special election nears - Manchin takes to air on 'false ads' - Governor makes stop in Beckley for pro-bond rally
6-22	Elk Foundation eyes reclaimed coal mines
6-22	Senate Endorses Bush Policy on Climate - Senate Approves Weaker, Voluntary Climate Plan
6-22	Voting machines: Let's have a look
6-22	U.S. in danger of becoming fascist (Winnie is an OVEC board member; letters to the editors are great tools--use them!)
6-22	Rise in coal use casts doubts over EU Kyoto commitments - Germany's greenhouse gas emissions increase - MAJOR BLOW TO ENVIRONMENT
6-22	Biofuel Increasingly Competitive if Oil Surge Lasts
6-22	Elders fight to keep land; Peabody opponent says elderly suffer from stress disorder
6-22	Seven dead after Israeli train smashes into coal truck
6-22	Warming to raise risk of wildfires
6-22	Ross Gelbspan: Why Mainstream Coverage of Global Warming Has Failed
6-22	Renewable Energy 2005: A Mid-Year Review
6-22	Wind Turbine Price Rise Seen As Sign of Industry Health
6-22	WB helps China scale up use of renewable energy
6-22	Chinese coal mine corruption needs digging out - China's coal demand to reach 2.5 bln tons by 2010 - report
6-21	Domenici Backs Off Warming Limits - Lobbying Heats Up As Climate Vote Nears - Mayor leads crusade against global warming
6-21	Reducing pollutants from electricity generation helps economy, study finds
6-21	Manchin invokes jobs to drum up support for plan - Pension bond foes elaborate on opposition - Massey chief fires back at Manchin
6-21	Bond foes, backers clash; Manchin made issue personal, Blankenship says - Manchin making bond issue 'personal,' Massey CEO says - WV: Manchin VS Blankenship? - Pension PR Battle Heats Up - Manchin Brings Added Safeguard to Pension Bonds
6-21	Flood Trial to Begin in March 2006
6-21	Mining Dilemma
6-21	Massey Energy Announces Purchase of Great Western Assets
6-21	Other facts temper job gains
6-21	In W.Va. county, vote-buying indictments turn few heads
6-21	ARC map will boost tourism in Appalachia (An OVEC staffer has a blurb of text on this map, recounting the region's rich biodiversity.)
6-21	Dynatec Producing Coal-Bed Methane Gas in West Virginia - Canada’s Coal Bed Methane Losing its Buzz
6-21	A Flicker Away From a Blackout
6-21	US power plants could run short of coal - Arch warns coal could run out at power plants - Arch has long-term interest in high-sulfur coal
6-21	Load of bull - Hauling bill's death ups prices
6-21	After 29 years, widow wins fight for black-lung benefits
6-21	How global warming is changing the animal kingdom - Storms, floods and sunshine: welcome to global warming - Thawing Siberia Triggers Global Warming Alarm
6-21	Climate change: More coal use pushes up EU greenhouse gas