When Old Dominion Electric Cooperative (ODEC) decided that the small town of Dendron, Virginia, would be the future site of a 1500 megawatt, behemoth of a coal-fired power plant, they probably did not imagine that they would face a tremendous…
Monthly Archives: July 2009
New Report Shows Green Jobs are a Better Deal Than New Coal Plants
Read the new report here and see https://www.kftc.org/our-work/stop-smith for more information. MORE THAN 8,000 NEW CLEAN ENERGY JOBS POSSIBLE IN KENTUCKY, ACCORDING TO NEW REPORT Investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy show higher job potential than in new coal…
Coal slurry injection back before WVa lawmakers
As reported by the The Associated Press in the Huntington Herald-Dispatch: CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Dismissing a recent state study as inadequate, activists who oppose the underground injection of coal slurry told lawmakers Wednesay the practice should be banned outright…
Mountaintop removal: Streamlined permits to stop – kinda
Ken Ward Jr. of the Charleston Gazette reports on his Coal Tattoo blog: Tomorrow’s edition of the Federal Register (available here by the magic of the Internet) will include this notice from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, making good…
Utne Reader talks with authors of a new book about mountaintop removal
Sit down on a porch with someone from the American South and you’ll learn why the region is renowned for its storytelling tradition. In the book Something’s Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal (University Press of Kentucky), authors Silas House and…
Congressman Kennedy Compares Appalachian Movement to Civil Rights Organizing
Congressman Kennedy said these words earlier this year when speaking to a group of Appalachian citizens, and I hope we can all keep them close to heart: Unfortunately, we live in a culture that places a value on human beings…
Commenting on New Nationwide Permit Policy
As many of you know, yesterday the Army Corps announced that they would be moving forward with suspending the Nationwide Permit 21(NWP 21) process for mountaintop removal and valleyfill operations for Appalachian states. Instead, the Army Corps will be using…
The Declining Power of Coal
How much does a ton of coal weigh? It sounds like a funny question, but – if you’re burning coal for energy – all tons are not created equal. The value of coal comes not from the raw tonnage, but…
Appalachian Voices Applauds NC’s Move Towards Wind Energy
Appalachian Voices applauds moving NC towards wind energy and supports action by the North Carolina Senate to pass Senate Bill 1068. The original version of this bill, developed by the hard work of the Wind Technical Advisory Group, attempted to…
Coal Country Premieres
The latest documentary film to examine mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, “Coal Country,” premiered Saturday, July 11 night to a standing-room-only crowd. While the event was mostly uneventful, during the screening there were boos and heckling from pro-mountaintop removal…
