Climate Change is Absolutely Devastating in Australia

January 8, 2020

Cattle have stopped breeding, koalas die of thirst: A vet’s hellish diary of climate change From an Article by Gundi Rhoades, Sydney Morning Herald, December 26, 2019 Bulls cannot breed at Inverell. They are becoming infertile from their testicles overheating. Mares are not falling pregnant, and through the heat, piglets and calves are aborting. My [...]

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The Challenge of Justifying PILOT Tax Avoidance for Longview Power

January 7, 2020

Consider the Longview II PILOT Agreement for New Power Plant By Kelly Allen, WV Center on Budget & Policy, December 10, 2019 While local government agencies have not disclosed the forgone revenue estimates from the Longview I or II PILOT agreements, we can estimate the value of the tax expenditure by looking at what Longview [...]

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Alternative Energy Can Now Compete With New Gas Fired Power Plants

January 6, 2020

Efficiency makes clean energy cost-competitive with new gas power plants Article by Maggie Molina, Senior Director for Policy, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, September 23, 2019 Clean energy, including wind, solar, storage, energy efficiency, and demand flexibility, has reached an economic tipping point and is now cost-competitive with natural gas power generation, according to [...]

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Longview Power Case #19-0890-E-CS-CN @ WV Public Service Commission

January 5, 2020

CASE NO. 19-0890-E-CS-CN, Longview Submission 11/06/19 LONGVIEW POWER II, LLC, and LONGVIEW RENEWABLE POWER, LLC Joint Application of Longview Power II, LLC and Longview Renewable Power, LLC to Authorize the Construction and Operation of Two Wholesale Electric Generating Facilities and One High-Voltage Electric Transmission Line in Monongalia County. NOTICE OF FILING AND HEARING On September [...]

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Longview Tax Breaks are Excessive, actually Inappropriate, and possibly Illegal

January 4, 2020

Longview can build power plant, but shouldn’t get tax breaks Op-Ed Letter to State Journal, WV News, December 16, 2019 The December 2nd editorial by Jeffrey Keffer (President, Longview Power) asks for our support for the proposed Longview II gas-fired power plant and complains about “extreme environmental organizations” opposing the project. In particular, they are [...]

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Public Service Commission Hearing on Longview II & III — January 6th @ 5:30 PM, Mon. County Courthouse

January 3, 2020

Proposed Longview Power Gas-Fired Power Plant — Fact Sheet Prepared by the West Virginia Chapter of Sierra Club, PO Box 4142, Morgantown, WV 26504 What is Longview proposing? Longview Power proposes to construct a 1200-MW gas-fired power plant in Monongalia County on 54 acres adjacent to their existing coal-fired plant near Fort Martin. They also [...]

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Marcellus Tanker Truck Accident Kills Driver on US Route 50

January 2, 2020

One woman dead after tanker truck accident in Ritchie County From an Article by Rodney Lamp, WBOY News 12, December 30, 2019 ELLENBORO, W.Va. – One woman is dead after an accident Sunday in Ritchie County involving a tanker truck. According to the Ritchie County Sheriff’s Office, a brine truck was heading east on Route [...]

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There’s Lots to Learn at Running Bug Farm, Doddridge County, WV

January 1, 2020

Fracking Well Pads Closing-In On Another (Organic) Farm in West Virginia From Running Bug Farm, Facebook, December 30, 2019 My husband and I are planting our Christmas tree when I look up and see this huge black cloud of smoke coming from one of the fracking pads that is by us. Due to the terrain [...]

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West Virginia Rivers Deserve($) Your Support In 2020

December 31, 2019

Message from WV Rivers, Visiting the West Fork River From Angie Blosser, WV Rivers, December 30, 2019 Happy New Year! Click here for a special video message from WV Rivers. From along the banks of the West Fork River, the WV Rivers teams wishes you clean steams and wild rivers in 2020! See also: Site [...]

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You Cannot Imagine “A World Without Clouds”

December 30, 2019

A World Without Clouds From an Article by Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, February 25, 2019 SUMMARY — A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth’s climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century. On a 1987 voyage to the Antarctic, the [...]

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