APPALACHIAN VOICES INVITATION ~ Webinar on Financing Solar Projects

November 2, 2021

How to Finance Solar Electricity Projects in Central Appalachia From Appalachian Voices in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia & West Virginia Dear Colleagues and Friends, Join Us on November 4th ~ Thank you for signing up to learn more about the Appalachian Solar Finance Fund (SFF), a new program to jump-start commercial and institutional solar [...]

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ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS — Public Hearing(s) on “Mountain Valley Pipeline”

November 1, 2021

NOTICE OF VIRTUAL PUBLIC HEARINGS — Mountain Valley Pipeline in WV & VA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that virtual public hearings will be conducted by the United States (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to solicit the views of interested persons regarding the permit application submitted by Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), LLC. The Corps is [...]

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Carbon Capture, Use & Storage (CCUS) is Really Impractical — Way Too Costly

October 31, 2021

New report argues carbon capture, use and storage technologies too costly for WV & nation From an Article by Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette Mail, October 7, 2021 The drawbacks of a technology that West Virginia’s members of Congress and some clean energy proponents have embraced as key to reducing carbon dioxide emissions far outweigh its [...]

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WARNING FROM UNITED NATIONS ~ Earth on Track for Climate Catastrophe

October 30, 2021

U.N.’s Guterres Warns World on Track for Climate Catastrophe, Even with Gov’t Pledges Ahead of COP26 From a News Update from Democracy Now! on October 27, 2021 U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres issued yet another stark warning just days ahead of the COP26 global climate summit. Secretary-General António Guterres: “Less than one week before COP26 in [...]

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Let’s Discuss Carbon Dioxide Removal — It’s Not A Silver Bullet to Save Earth

October 29, 2021

High stakes and wide open future for carbon dioxide removal discussed at WV climate webinar Newsprint Article by Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette Mail, 10/28/21 Julio Friedmann, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, mentioned the impacts of the climate crisis before looking ahead to the future of carbon dioxide [...]

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Katharine Hayhoe Says: “How can we not afford to act on climate change?”

October 27, 2021

Five stages of climate denial and how to counter them, according to a climate scientist From an Article by Madeleine Cuff, i-News (Environment), UK, October 25, 2021 Backbench MPs in England are railing against the government’s plan to cut UK emissions to net zero by 2050, warning the policy will leave British citizens “poorer and [...]

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PUBLIC RADIO BROADCAST — “Our Future is Still in Our Hands” (But …)

October 26, 2021

National Public Radio Program — “Our Future is Still in Our Hands” Interview of Katharine Hayhoe – NPR Program ON BEING, October 21, 2021 Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most esteemed atmospheric scientists in the world. She’s made her mark by connecting dots between climate systems and weather patterns and the lived experience of [...]

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Prepare for the Army Corps Hearing on the ‘Mountain Valley Pipeline’

October 25, 2021

Tell the Army Corps: Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline. From the Appeal by Caroline Hansley, Sierra Club, October 24, 2021 The Army Corps of Engineers could soon issue a key permit that would allow the dangerous Mountain Valley Pipeline to continue construction — even though its construction has already harmed clean water sources across Appalachia [...]

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Gov. Justice Politicizes Another Public Agency — Truth & Facts Don’t Matter

October 24, 2021

Packed with Gov. Justice appointees, WV-EBA board fires Public Broadcasting executive director From an Article by Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette Mail, October 7, 2021 Chuck Roberts has been fired as executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Roberts late Thursday afternoon sent an email to WVPB staff and to the Gazette-Mail stating that his employment [...]

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Marshall County is Unusually Rugged and Somewhat Accident Prone

October 23, 2021

Incident on well pad near Sorghum Ridge Road in Marshall County, WV From an Article by Steve Moore, WTRF 7 News, Wheeling, October 22, 2021 MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) – Marshall County Sheriff Bill Helms confirms to 7NEWS that there was an incident near a well pad out in Marshall County near Sorghum Ridge Road, [...]

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