Monthly Archives: October 2009

Appalachian Voices Celebrates its Heroes

Appalachian Voices’ very own Matt Wasson and Benji Burrell, and Coal River Mountain Watch’s Lorelei Scarbro star in a film by Google Earth, celebrating Appalachian Voices as a Google Earth Hero—inspiring the world to take initiative! “We are thrilled by

Breaking: Mountaintop Removal Begins on Coal River Mountain — Help Needed Now!

BREAKING NEWS: Reports are coming in from residents of West Virginia’s Coal River Valley that Massey Energy has begun mountaintop removal mining operations on Coal River Mountain. Sprawling across thousands of acres of diverse and pristine hardwood forests, this mountain

Duke Energy Reaches Preliminary Agreement With NC Utilities Commission, Reduces Rate Hike

On Tuesday, Duke Energy and the North Carolina Utility Commission reached a preliminary settlement on Duke’s request for a substantial rate increase on residential and commercial utilities. The proposed agreement would cut Duke’s original request of a 13% residential rate

Forty-Eight Hour Coal Roundup – It’s Been A Heck Of A Day (or two)

Safety of Dozens of Citizens Threatened at “Public Hearing” Pro-coal groups and mountaintop removal coal mining opponents verbally clashed at a hearing on the Army Corps of Engineers’ NW21 permits Wednesday night in Charleston, W.Va. According to eyewitnesses, hundreds of

October/November 2009 issue in downloadable PDF

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App Voices’ Matt Wasson Finds Major Flaws in the Nature Conservancy’s “Energy Sprawl” Report

As Congress was returning from the August recess, there wasn’t much news about the climate bill. The only energy-related news breaking through the coverage of the rancorous health care debates and town-hall tea parties was a study on “energy sprawl”

WCHS-TV Eyewitness New: Boone County (West Virginia) Residents Sue Coal Companies, Parts 1 – 3

Watch this insightful piece from WCHS-TV Eyewitness New. From the WCHS-TV Website: “More than 200 people living in Prenter Hollow in Boone County are suing nine coal companies, claiming toxic coal slurry has seeped into their private water wells making

Thank You Senator Byrd, Congressman Rahall, and Senator Rockefeller

Appalachian Voices is pleased to commend West Virginia Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd, Senator Jay Rockefeller, and Congressman Nick Rahall for standing up to Massey Energy, and demanding that the company pay to relocate Marsh Fork Elementary. Their words are

7th Annual AMPC Photography Competition Focuses On Appalachia

Photographers of the world, it’s time to focus your lenses on Appalachia. Amateur and professional photographers alike are encouraged to enter The 7th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition (AMPC), which focuses on images that portray various aspects of Appalachian life.

Serena: Historical Fiction with a Taste for Blood (and Timber)

By Sarah Vig Set in the mountains of North Carolina during the early years of the Great Depression, the landscape of Ron Rash’s “Serena” (Harper Collins, $24.95) is at once familiar and foreign. Serena is the new bride of timber

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