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April 2006
Contents
Federal Judge Blocks Massey Mine Expansion
The Appalachian Coalfield Delegation to the United Nations
The Madagascar Periwinkle and Me
Community Shares - A New Way to Give That Can Make A Difference
Why We Go to the United Nations
Anne Breden: Goodbye to A Friend
Sympathy Extended to Families of Two OVEC Supporters
Leaked Massey Memo Is Blunt - Mine Coal, or Else!
Closer, But No Victory Dance for Clean Elections Yet
Arizona Official Says Campaign Finance Reform Working Great
Bill Moyers: This Is A Time for Heresy, Democracy is For Sale
Mountain State a Test Bed for Election-Funding Rules

1,200 Coal-Fired Plants Headed Our Way Within 10 Years
Victory: A Break In the Smog
Mountaintop Removal Mining Visible - From Space!
DEP Denies Massey Air Quality Permit Near Marsh Fork School
Appalachian Spring: Or, What it looks like NOW, as opposed to what it SHOULD look like
JOIN US FOR Healing Mountains
Mountain Justice Summer: MOP Up Mountaintop Removal!
MJS 2006: A Call to Action
Rape of the Mountains - A Personal Perspective

Coal Sludge and Groundwater Don't Mix

Wrap-Up of Legislative Efforts to Achieve Sludge Safety
Living with Bad Water: And This Is Happening in America?
It’s Bad When Coal Waste Gets in the Water
God’s Creation: Coal Industry Does Not Practice Good Stewardship
The Character of Mountains
Residents Worry About Sludge Pond Hazards

Censored: Libraries Don’t Like WV Child’s Story About MTR
DEP Trying to Settle Hundreds of Massey Pollution Violations

Global Warming Already Here in the Mountain State
Massive Media Monitoring of Mountaintop Massacre
Hobet Ville
Thank You
Miscellany


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Massive Media Monitoring of Mountaintop Massacre

Find links to recent news coverage on the OVEC website home page, the featured news page and the daily news page.

Appalachians’ demand for an end to the massacre of our mountains and the poisoning of our water continues to get high profile media coverage.

OVEC and Coal River Mountain Watch members were featured prominently “When Mountains Move” in the March 2006 issue of National Geographic. Judy Bond’s voice ended the article: “…These mountains are in our soul. And you know what? That’s what they’re stealing from us. They’re stealing our soul.”

Vanity Fair’s May issue is devoted to environmental issues, and one articles exposes Massey Energy and other companies’ destruction of our mountains. American School Board Journal’s cover story for March examines Marsh Fork Elementary and the Massey Energy sludge dam, coal silo and coal prep plant that threaten the school.

Catherine and Ann Pancake’s film Black Diamonds: The Fight for Coalfield Justice premiered in South Charleston in March. The audience stood and applauded as the final credits rolled.

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