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Winds of Change Newsletter, March 2009 See sidebar for table of contents
NPR Interviews OVEC Members on Stream Buffer Zone
Rule Change
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| Larry Gibson shows a reporter the
dust-cloaked, boulder-blasted horror that is an active
mountaintop removal mining site. Over the years, hundreds of
reporters from across the nation and around the world have filed
reports from atop the summit of ever-diminishing Kayford
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In December 2008, National Public Radio (NPR) featured
an interview with OVEC members Leon and Lucille Miller in a story called
"Mining-Rule Change Creates Tremors In W.Va."
The Millers are the folks who battled Arch Coal all the
way to the West Virginia Supreme Court in order to keep part of their
Lincoln County land in the midst of the Hobet 21 mountaintop removal
site.
In January 2009, NPRs Elizabeth Shogren interviewed
OVEC board member Larry Gibson for a segment titled "Bush Administration
Altered Appalachian Landscape."
Shogren begins her story, "There might not be a better
place to contemplate the impact of President Bushs environmental legacy
than Larry Gibsons mountain in southern West Virginia."
Find links to the story transcripts and audio of both of
these stories on OVECs "Featured
News" webpage.
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