The MJS crew is headed to Kentucky for a weekend of music and mountains! It kicks off Friday night with two film showings at the Wiley’s Last Resort Campground (www.wileyslastresort.com): Bob Gates’ 1977 strip mining classic “In Memory of the…
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Costs Surge for Building Power Plants
In the below article the New York times reports on the rising cost of power plant construction. According to the article, the cost of building both coal and nuclear power plants has increased drastically over the last two years. The…
Appalachian Voices Confirms Study Results and Then Some
In fact, projections based on the best available models and recent production trends indicate that an estimate of 26 billion tons of Appalachian reserves is quite optimistic. If reserve estimates in other areas are as overblown as those for the…
Video of Kathy Mattea’s visit to Kayford Released
To see a video of Kathy Mattea on Kayford mountain check out this site https://media.cnpapers.com/mattea/!
Kathy Mattea visits Kayford Mountain
If it hadn’t been for the swarm of video cameras and news station personel, you would not have known that there was a celebrity up on Kayford Mountain Tuesday afternoon. As country music star Kathy Mattea bounced up Kayford’s gravel…
News Briefs
Twelve arrested in protest over Marsh Fork elementary school State police arrested 12 demonstrators at the West Virginia state capitol during a peaceful protest over conditions at Marsh Fork elementary school on March 16. Holding signs asking “What would Jesus…
Go Tell It on the Mountain
What Gibson has not gotten used to, however, is the view. The rolling, verdant countryside below Gibson’s home has been home to hundreds of isolated and close-knit Appalachian mining communities for generations. Much taller peaks that rose high above Gibson’s…
Loving Mountains at Bonnaroo
The New York Times hailed last month’s Bonnaroo music festival as “more than just jam bands,” touting its major headliners, the Police and Tool. But here at App. Voices, we know that Bonnaroo was more than just a hippie jam-fest…
Across Appalachia
Wind Power Questions Still Remain Wind energy has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions and pollutants as it displaces other forms of electrical production, a National Academy of Sciences report said in May. But the report said there was practically…
New York Times reports on results of coal mining study
Science Panel Finds Fault With Estimates of Coal Supply By Matthew L. Wald WASHINGTON, June 20 — The United States may not have nearly as much coal as is popularly believed, and mining the remaining resources may be more dangerous…
