(Sep)  Archive - October, 2006  (Nov)

	News Links Relevant to OVEC Issues
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10-31	A global catastrophe of our own making  -  British Report: Failure to Curb Global Warming Disastrous for World Economies   -  No reason to panic, if we act now  -  Global Warming Could Devastate Economy  (More on the Stern Review below, under entries from today's date)
10-31	1 killed, 1 hurt in mine accident  -   Coal industry faces dangerous time
10-31	A Miner Matter
10-31	Conservation: Just follow the law
10-31	Food tax leads cut list  -  First part of tax plan unveiled  -  Manchin proposes $110M in tax cuts
10-31	Coal firm sues Pa. over longwall mining rules   -  Coal firm alleges DEP discrimination
10-31	Kentucky has new stake in power plant
10-31	WV students Travel to Ohio to join fight against new coal plants
10-31	Oil spill darkens Pike County creek
10-31	Mine Explosion Traps 35 in Western China
10-31	World Wildlife Fund report places U.S. second in natural resource consumption
10-31	E. ON U.S. will join climate effort ; Partnership to build plant that won't cause warming
10-31	Dow CEO: Energy Policy Could Retain Jobs
10-31	Clean vs. dirty is only part of renewable energy debate
10-31	TV GM bans global warming news
10-31	Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming
10-31	White House Nods at British Climate Change Report  -  Climate Change Appeal Fails to Silence Sceptics
10-31	Home Page for the Stern Review -  Stern by numbers  - The day that changed the climate  -  So what does the Stern Report mean for the world?  -  'Almost too late' to stop a global catastrophe  -  Melting of Greenland's ice sheet 'is the turning point'
10-31	Simple verdict after a complex inquiry: time is running out -    Britain to push for global climate deal by 2008  -  Drastic action on climate change is needed now - and here's the plan  - 'Final piece in the jigsaw'  - Analysts sceptical about report's impact in US - and benefits of using Al Gore
10-31	UK Response to Stern Review on Climate Change
10-31	Putting a price on carbon: the key to securing global stability
10-31	Rich Nations' Greenhouse Gases up in 2004 - UN  -  Emissions of Greenhouse Gases
10-31	Climate changes global warming could cause
10-31	Global warming may produce more insects
10-30	Election Day blunders could escalate  -  Mistakes in election process inexcusable  -  Remember to Vote, Hope It Counts
10-30	Statehouse power at stake in '06   -  W.Va. Democrats upset over $1.3 million Republican ad campaign
10-30	Old Trout Magazine: The Thirteen Scariest People in America (Scariest Polluter: Don Blankenship / CEO of Massey Energy Co.)
10-30	Job and Environmental Blackmail: Alive And Well In West Virginia
10-30	A vote for Rufus is a vote for an underdog
10-30	Mine Safety Protest  (scroll down for headline)
10-30	Fury at proposal for open cast site
10-30	Budgets Falling in Race to Fight Global Warming
10-30	Leahy: President censored warming research
10-30	Gore to advise British on global warming
10-30	If the climate change message is to hit home, we will all need more support
10-30	From cow poop to cow power: A journey in photographs
10-30	The Dark Side of Coal
10-30	Belize barrier reef suffers, global warming blamed  -  Global warming will create 'climate change refugees'  -  Global warming could cost up to $7 trillion
10-30	The other type of climate change ideologue
10-30	New kind of hybrid fuel is 'doable' now, experts say
10-30	Solar event has star power
10-30	GT Solar helps harness solar
10-30	Solar power keeps satellites cooking on defense, data
10-29	Climate change 'hitting Africa'  - Africa ‘faces catastrophe’ unless West acts on climate change
10-29	Millionaire focuses on Legislature  -  Political scientist says Blankenship approach is novel   -   Coal magnate trying to fire up GOP support
10-29	Both parties ramp up efforts to deliver vote
10-29	Bobbie Ann Mason op-ed in New York Times: Pick Your Poison
10-29	Vote! Live the change you want now
10-29	"A Crisis of God's Creation"
10-29	Report: 14 Miners Die in Western China
10-29	Coal-gasification plant will be built in Indiana
10-29	Hard-knock New England city welcomes region's largest solar installation
10-29	Wind's up for energy industry
10-29	Solar's Next Level: In South Korea, an Israeli firm tries to scale up PVT technology   -  Solar pays off for Plantronics
10-29	EnviroMission Solar Tower
10-29	Planning for the long term
10-29	Global warming is likely to hit your wallet
10-29	Climate change: five ways to make a difference
10-29	Britain considering 'green taxes' to help combat climate change
10-29	Key points in UK climate change report  -  Sweeping report to spell out costs of global warming  -  The cost-benefit on global warming
10-29	Experts: Warming a threat to wildlife
10-29	Global warming: A life-preserver for right-wingers fleeing sinking Republican Party?
10-29	Global warming: litigation to soon heat up
10-29	Reduce your 'carbon footprint' to minimize global warming's effects
10-28	New York Times: Taking On a Coal Mining Practice as a Matter of Faith
10-28	Elk don’t seem to like the food sources on strip mines (because it isn't a food source!)
10-28	US Warned of Ballot Box Chaos as Elections Near
10-28	Mine safety: Important promises
10-28	Officials discuss future of mine lands  -  Reclamation?  -Twisted Gun
10-28	Energy Secretary announces $450 million for coal research -   Gov't Gives $450M to Coal Research (There is no such thing as "clean" coal. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics.)-  Ky. gets $134 million to study CO2 capture
10-28	Indiana to get clean coal-to-gas plant (see note above)
10-28	Final campaign finance reports show incumbents leading
10-28	Texas hunger strike against new coal plants
10-28	Barton faces two challengers
10-28	Light at end of tunnel in miners' shortage--Massey
10-28	Companies to soon decide whether to tap into coal-bed methane
10-28	Baard Energy, L.L.C. Names Civil & Environmental Consultants as Facility Permitting Consultant for Preliminary Engineering and Site Analysis
10-28	Arch Coal's foundation gives $100,000 to W. Va. University
10-28	From Polluted Past to Solar Energy Champs
10-28	New funding gives green British householders a helping hand  -  MP backs campaign to save on energy
10-27	NATIONWIDE PERMIT PROGRAM WARRANTS ANGER AND ACTION   -   U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New Nationwide Permits
10-27	A tough election season for the coal industry
10-27	Mountain Party hopeful disdains campaign contributions
10-27	Blankenship should give to charities, not politicians (scroll down)
10-27	Mountain Laurel: Arch’s Investment Makes Strides
10-27	This Just In...
10-27	Exxon Reports $10.49 Billion Profit in Quarter
10-27	Coal miner Massey posts higher 3rd-quarter profit  -   Coal miner Consol's quarterly profit drops
10-27	CN pressman dies in wreck
10-27	Vermont College Goes Green With Cow Manure
10-27	Blaine ready to fight coal industry
10-27	F&M to host showing of Kilowatt Ours
10-27	Kyoto Carbon Capture Projects Possible Before 2012
10-27	Sea change: why global warming could leave Britain feeling the cold
10-27	Al Gore: Earth is in 'Full-Scale Planetary Emergency'
10-27	Wales unites to tackle climate change
10-27	Climate change also brings opportunities
10-27	Leading Methodists to Join March on Climate Change
10-27	A Tale of Two Climate Change Stories
10-27	World economy 'faces ruin' from climate change
10-27	M. Stanley Gives US$3 Billion Confidence Vote in Kyoto
10-27	World Carbon Market Leaps in '06, China Share Down
10-27	Traditional cooking stoves impact global warming more than expected
10-27	New York suburb plans its own fight against global warming
10-27	What's the link between hurricanes and global warming?
10-27	Supreme Court tackles global warming; Corporate America is split on whether the EPA should regulate carbon dioxide
10-26	Peril: Environmental collapse?  -  Eating the Planet
10-26	'Saving The Earth' Can Mean Big Bucks; Report Finds $1 Trillion In 'Green' Business Opportunities Await Entrepreneurs
10-26	Tackle climate change or face deep recession, world's leaders warned
10-26	State Supreme Court won't consider PSC's power plant ruling
10-26	Lawsuit filed over second truck wreck
10-26	Industry Feels Left Out Of WJU Mining Panel (Poor little industry! Maybe it should go spend another couple tens of millions on TV and radio propaganda)  -  Panel Reviews Preservation Of Coal Mining Jobs, Environment
10-26	U.S. And EU Agree to Boost Environment Cooperation  (There is no such thing as "clean" coal. Coal's dirty when you dig it, dirty when you haul it, dirty when you burn it, dirty when you dispose of the ash, and it sure dirties up politics.)
10-26	The State Journal: Voters Question Blankenship's Campaign
10-26	With Election Day Looming, Voters Show Apathy
10-26	Pull the Plug on E-Voting
10-26	Dirty campaigning
10-26	Dishing out power with a solar engine
10-26	Coal-to-oil not suitable as bulk fuel for automobiles - Chinese think-tank
10-26	Australia to Build Largest Solar Plant  -   Australia advances with solar power
10-26	China invest massive capital for renewable power
10-26	Inspectors start inquiry into mine death in Pa.
10-26	Environmental opponents begin hunger strike in protest of coal-fired plants  -  Can't afford ills of more dirty plants
10-26	ICG reports $2.4 million loss
10-26	Is there hope for Route 10?
10-26	Eleven killed in coal mine explosion in China
10-26	Don't be misled by political ads; get facts about candidates
10-26	Site development begins for new Illinois coal-fired power plant
10-26	Schwarzenegger Prods Bush on Warming
10-26	The Path Beyond Petroleum: Twelve Theses
10-25	Humans Living Far Beyond Planet's Means
10-25	Finding a Balance For Coal Mining
10-25	Don Blankenship: Seventh scariest person in America  -  Farm Bureau hosts candidates
10-25	Don't let rich outsider sway your vote
10-25	Mine safety money comes to Montgomery  -  Rahall launches mine safety program from Montgomery
10-25	UMW Demands Safer Coal Mines  -  Coal miner knew job, relative says
10-25	Gas pipeline owner seeks permits to expand transmission, storage
10-25	Candidates debate state issues
10-25	Residents fire more questions than last time
10-25	Coal plant protesters organize hunger strike
10-25	The Coal Conspiracy
10-25	The Hidden Life of Paper and Its Impact on the Environment
10-25	For Solar Energy Firms, Future May Be Brighter
10-25	Marine energy cash made available
10-25	Cities warming to cheap solar energy
10-25	Australian states in $125m solar power grab
10-25	Climate change, fungal disease threatening frogs
10-25	Climate change 'will threaten Britain's water supply'
10-25	First African solar airport to operate in Uganda
10-24	Energy depletion & the US descent into fascism
10-24	UMW picketing MSHA for safety
10-24	Time for answers on miners’ air packs
10-24	Explosion at Pa. coal mine kills 1  -  1 killed, 5 escape mine in east Pa.
10-24	Preston mine has history of roof falls
10-24	Mine Tragedy Remembered
10-24	Northeastern Kentucky school works to turn out 'high-tech' coal miners
10-24	Wild, wonderful  -  Take Action: Sign Petition
10-24	Two conservation groups file 2nd appeal over gorge development
10-24	Montana Announces Transmission Line Plans
10-24	Canada Doubles Wind Energy Projects From 2005
10-24	Two arrested for protest at NOAA office
10-24	Britain to warn climate change threatens security
10-24	Coal mine poses a looming threat to water quality
10-24	Global Warming May Be Mother of All Finance Woes: John F. Wasik
10-24	Frozen in Memories, but Melting Before Their Eyes
10-24	Rare Russian CO2 Data Shows 11 Pct Rise Since 1999
10-24	Clean Energy: The Future May Be Sooner Than You Think  -  RENEWABLE ENERGY A BREEZE WITH AIR-X WIND TURBINES
10-24	Peco's 'Designer' Energy Is Worth The Money
10-24	Carbon Market Might Help Rainforests
10-24	Time to Get Serious on 'Bold' Kyoto Successor
10-24	Global warming may sour Aussie wine: scientist
10-24	Was surprise snowstorm caused by global warming?
10-23	Bill McKibben: How Close to Catastrophe?
10-23	Byrd-Raese contest priciest W.Va. race
10-23	Election calendar   -  Early voting gets off to a steady start
10-23	Small climate of concern as US polls loom
10-23	Vt. researchers rebut EPA theory on mercury pollution
10-23	In Deregulation, Power Plants Turn Into Blue Chips
10-23	A Welsh village sets the tempo in water
10-23	Media downplay link to eco-disasters
10-23	Big corporations ready to battle global warming threat
10-23	The environment fights back
10-23	Swiss bank targets top companies' impact on climate change
10-23	Change in climate will spur mass migration
10-22	New York Times: Wealthy Coal Executive Hopes to Turn Democratic West Virginia Republican
10-22	Preston County miner killed in accident
10-22	Power Execs Foresee Carbon Emission Caps
10-22	Most proposed power plants in U.S. would use old technology
10-22	Mercury in air linked to power plants
10-22	Dust still hasn't settled, 3 months after soot 'event'
10-22	Promise of solar energy already starting to shine
10-22	In 1966, they refused to sue… not now
10-22	Coal mining engineer discusses issues of concern
10-22	Abandoned mine sites endangering Blair
10-22	Villagers heroic survivors, not victims
10-22	Blair issues stark climate change warning  -  Blair Warns Of Catastrophic Tipping Points From Global Warming
10-21	40 years ago today in Aberfan, Wales: 'The saddest 24 hours I would ever know'  -   Murderous wave killed kids  -  'It was something beyond tragedy'   -   All around us was chaos, and no one was rescued alive  -  Aberfan, the village that lives in the shadow of the past
10-21	Latest global warming study predicts "wild ride’ of droughts, heavy rain  -  Global Warming Spells Widespread Disaster
10-21	Kentucky Council of Churches calls for end to mountaintop removal  -  Church group calls for changes to aid state's rural areas
10-21	Blankenship: Odd election factor
10-21	White Buck Coal (Massey subsidiary) facing court
10-21	Bosses’ profit drive kills 40 coal miners in U.S. this year
10-21	Controversial reading reverberates week later
10-21	Ky. urged to be power player; Fletcher encourages investments at summit   -  Protest proceeds Fletcher energy conference
10-21	Votes for Sale?  -  $ Spent in WV
10-21	GRANNY D GOES TO WASHINGTON
10-21	Future of American energy in doubt
10-21	Christians gather for prayer against new coal-fired plants in Texas  -  TXU gets first OK on 6 coal plants
10-21	Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action   -  Christians Counter Climate Change  -  Christians to Pressure Government on Climate Change at ‘I Count’ Rally
10-21	Local plant says it will clean up act
10-21