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Winds of Change
December 2003

Contents

OVEC's Win in Clean Water Act Case Has Nationwide and MTR Permit Implications

Ode to Massey Coal - How to Do Energy All Wrong

Granny D, Doris Haddock: On the Road Again!

Massey Coal Ordered to Monitor for Mercury, Other Toxics

On the Road to Change

Florence and Goliath, or, Standing Up for What's Right

Flat Land, or Flat Out Lie?

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Arouses Passionate Comments During Comment Period

Your EIS Comments - Big Brother at OSM Is Watching Us!

Corps’ Idea of "Minimal Impact" Challenged in Court

Jack Spadaro's Story:
Work for MSHA, Tell
the Truth, Get Fired

WV Supreme Court Agrees to Hear OVEC Member's Case Against Arch Coal

Mountaintop Removal Mining Photos

Another Massive Massey Sludge Impoundment Proposed

Global Warming Topic of Annual Conference on the Environment

Guess What? Those Rules SAVE $$$

Even AEP knows global warming is real!

Sludge Impoundments in Spotlight - Again

Meet the New Boss at the EPA - the Same As the Old Boss at the EPA ... Sigh ...

On Getting Along

Just Say NO to Mountaintop Removal / Valley Fills in Papua, New Guinea

They Get It in California...

Remembering Laura - Memorial Fund Helps Her Passion Live On

Gifts That Give Twice - Just in Time for the Holidays!

OVEC - in ACTION

Miscellany

Web Extra Articles Below
(not in printed newsletter)

Six Million and One Reasons Why West Virginia Needs Clean Elections

Coal-bed methane attracts Halliburton to West Virginia

Public deserves a real
solution to slurry spills


For viewing the PDF version

 

Even AEP knows global warming is real!

In late October, in "Coal-fired plants not in utility plans; company expects sharp dip in use as fuel," the Associated Press reported:

"The country’s largest coal-burning utility does not plan to build more conventional coal-fired power plants because its leaders expect industry coal use to be sharply curtailed, a top American Electric Power executive said.

"The industry is likely to face more pressure to reduce atmospheric emissions from burning carbon-based fuels, said Dale Heydlauff, a senior vice president of Columbus, Ohio-based AEP. Many scientists blame carbon dioxide from burning oil and coal for contributing to a "greenhouse" or warming effect on global climates.

"AEP leadership has no intention of building another pulverized coal plant... The risk exposure is just too great," he said during Tuesday’s meeting of the West Virginia Conference on the Environment in Charleston."

 

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