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Contents
Sludged Sick: Telling Our Stories in the State Capitol
New Court Order Sought to Block Three More MTR Permits in WV
Not Just Any Thursday
Something’s in the Water
The TRUE Costs of Coal
Buffalo Creek: It Should Never Have Happened
Living With Sludge, Living With Fear
Redefining Mine Safety - Inside and Outside the Mines
Book on MTR's Horrors Reviewed

Proposed Campaign Financing Act Would Mean Clean Elections in WV
Voter Beware: Watching the Paper Trail Vital to Make Sure YOUR Vote Counts
WV Senator Pushes Publicly Funded Campaigns Starting With 2008 Election
Coal Has Given Millions to Candidates, Report Says
Injecting Coal Wastes Underground Harmful, Not Well Regulated in WV
On the Scene at Sago
The Toll from Coal
A Discredited Regime
The Worst Environmental President in US History
Our Voices Are Being Heard Nationally and Internationally!
Net Metering: Grassroots Energy Generation for Everyone
Strange Questions: When Just Listening Can Be Viewed as A Threat
Chilling Dissent: FBI Collecting ‘Research’ Reports on Enviro Groups
Intact Forests Worth TRILLIONS

‘We Can’t Wait’ on Warming, Bush’s Do-Nothing Policy Unacceptable

Global Warming: Seven Hard Realities for Americans
Almost LEVEL, West Virginia
Sustainable Development: Help Send A Coalfield Delegation to the UN
Coalfield Residents Banding Together to Save School From Impoundment
The CARTOONS - A Common Theme Emerges

THANKS

Healing Mountains: The 16th annual Heartwood Forest Council and the 6th annual Summit for the Mountains
OVEC’s Annual Meeting and Spaghetti Dinner Fund-Raiser
They Say Nuke Like It’s a Good Thing


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Winds of Change Newsletter, February 2006     See sidebar for table of contents

Almost LEVEL, West Virginia ...
 

That’s not a sparkling clear blue mountain lake, it’s millions of gallons of coal waste and indescribable goo threatening a WV town.
That’s not a sparkling clear blue mountain lake, it’s millions of gallons of coal waste and indescribable goo threatening a WV town.

As if the mountaintop removal mining process wasn't enough, smoke from trees being burned off clogs the air as Massey expands stripping above the Shumate impoundment, at top right. This is the impoundment above Marsh Fork Elementary School that has so many parents there worried.
As if the mountaintop removal mining process wasn't enough, smoke from trees being burned off clogs the air as Massey expands stripping above the Shumate impoundment, at top right. This is the impoundment above Marsh Fork Elementary School that has so many parents there worried (see story here).

Almost Level - West Virginia, America's Energy Sacrifice Zone
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