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Fall 2023
Fraud Allegations in Ohio Public Lands Fracking Controversy As Ohio moves forward with leasing public lands for oil and gas fracking, there are allegations that supporters filed fraudulent letters in favor of these leases – using real Ohioans’ identities without their consent. Greenbrier River Watchdogs Alarmed as Mountain Valley Pipeline Drills Local residents and water…
Residents Across Five States Benefit From Local Air Quality Monitoring
Through the Upper South and Appalachia Citizen Air Monitoring Project, community members and organizations are collecting data about local air quality.
Energy Democracy in Virginia
Main / Energy Democracy for All / Energy Democracy in Virginia What’s the problem with Virginia’s energy system? Like other states in the Southeast, Virginia has a utility monopoly problem. For every resident of Virginia, where they live determines what corporate or local utility will provide their electric service. This lack of choice perpetuates inequality…
MVP Southgate
Main / Stop Pipelines & Fracked Gas / MVP Southgate Since Mountain Valley Pipeline was first announced in 2018, residents, churches, Indigenous groups, watershed groups and local governments across three counties in Virginia and North Carolina have fervently pushed back against the fracked-gas MVP Southgate, a proposed extension of the dangerous and harmful Mountain Valley…
Fracked Gas in Appalachia
Main / Stop Pipelines & Fracked Gas / Fracked Gas in Appalachia Fracked Gas in Appalachia Energy companies and monopoly utilities have foisted natural gas on the American public as a “clean” source of energy. But in reality, it’s an extremely dirty fossil fuel with harmful impacts. The life cycle of fracked gas – from…
Duke Energy’s proposal to convert the Roxboro coal plant to gas would be one of many dangerous new fossil fuel investments
Amid an alarming set of proposals for an extensive methane gas expansion across North Carolina, Duke Energy wants to convert its coal-fired power plant on Hyco Lake in Person County, known as the Roxboro Steam Station, to a combined-cycle methane gas power plant.
Join App Voices at the Appalachian Studies Conference
This year, the App Studies Conference will be held at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, from March 7 to March 9. Along with a wide array of grassroots partners, Appalachian Voices will be there to learn, teach and have a good time!
Statement by Appalachian Voices on MVP revamp of Southgate plans
With a wholly new project that requires an ‘open season’ to find customers, FERC should cancel the original Southgate Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and send the developers back to the drawing board.
Front Porch Blog
Updates from Appalachia July 12, 2024 Demystifying heat pumps Curious about saving money and reducing your carbon footprint? Read on to learn about heat pumps! Read More July 10, 2024 Communities identify priorities during first listening sessions of multi-year project In late April, Appalachian Voices started our first round of Community Strong listening sessions, part…
FERC extends MVP Southgate certificate for an additional three years
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 19, 2023 CONTACTS Morgan Caplan, Sierra Club, morgan.caplan@sierraclub.org Ridge Graham, Appalachian Voices, ridge@appvoices.org Washington, D.C. – Despite overwhelming public opposition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted a three-year extension of Mountain Valley Pipeline’s certificate for their Southgate extension. Commissioners Willie Phillips, Allison Clements and Mark Christie voted in the affirmative…