In the end of July, Appalachian Voices was contacted by Ted Withrow of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, who reported a family in rural Pike County, Kentucky, with possible methane contamination of their drinking water well, as indicated by flames shooting…
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Excel Mining Addresses Pike County Residents’ Flaming Well With A Solution Other Than Just Drilling More Contaminated Wells
TAGS: Appalachian Water Watch Coal Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Mountaintop Removal Riverkeeper Water Water Pollution Waterkeeper Waterkeeper Alliance
Saving Our Kids and Rivers from Drugs: Operation Medicine Cabinet Hopes to Build on Previous Success in the High Country, October 7th and 8th, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – CONTACTS: Erin Savage, Upper Watauga Riverkeeper 828-262-1500 Lisa Doty, Watauga County Recycling Coordinator 828-265-4852 Captain L. Reed, Watauga…
Big Coal’s Watergate Hearing Wrap Up
The hearing against the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, and ICG and Frasure Creek coal companies wrapped up last Friday. Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper, and Waterkeeper Alliance intervened in the settlement between the Cabinet and the…
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Appalachian Water Watch Clean Water Act Coal Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Litigation Mountaintop Removal Riverkeeper Water Water Pollution Waterkeeper Waterkeeper Alliance
First Day Wrap-up of Kentucky Coal Trials
The first day of the hearing against the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and ICG and Frasure mining companies concluded Wednesday evening. Appalachian Voices, Kentucky Riverkeeper, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Waterkeeper Alliance intend to show that the penalties assessed…
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Appalachian Water Watch Clean Water Act Coal Environment Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Kentucky Litigation Mountaintop Removal Riverkeeper Water Water Pollution Waterkeeper Waterkeeper Alliance
Flaming wells, poisoned water show abuses of coal.
I have just returned from another epic journey into the dark side of coal mining. If you, me or anyone else in America poisoned a neighbor’s drinking water we would be castigated and made a pariah at the very least…
TAGS: Appalachian Voices Appalachian Water Watch Coal Health Kentucky Riverkeeper Water Water Pollution
Delivering 30,000 Bottles of Water to KY Families with Contaminated Wells
On Thursday, Appalachian Voices and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth helped Keeper Springs Natural Spring Water delivered 30,000 bottles of water to thirteen Kentucky families in Pike County whose well water is contaminated with methane. Earlier this year a well became…
TAGS: Appalachian Water Watch Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Mountaintop Removal Water Water Pollution Waterkeeper Waterkeeper Alliance
Possible Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Wells in Kentucky
“In all my 20 years of working on water quality problems, I have never seen a drinking water well catch on fire and burn continuously for days on end,” Donna Lisenby said in reaction to news reports of a well…
Threats to the Land
By Jillian Randel Since large-scale farms of today have replaced the small farms of old, the bucolic nature of farming has given way to more industrialized techniques that may not always be better. Large-scale farming operations pose a huge threat…
TAGS: American Farmland Trust CAFOs concentrated animal feeding operations EPA National Resources Defense Council nitrate pollution Safe Drinking Water Act sustainability sustainable farming Water Pollution water testing
Inside Appalachian Voices
Taking A Stand in the War on Water By Erin Savage Though placid lakes and playful streams seem to say otherwise, a war on water is currently raging in the Appalachian Mountains. Here are just a few of the ways…
TAGS: Appalachian Treasures Appalachian Voices Appalachian Water Watch Clean Water Act Clean Water Cooperation Federalism Act Frasure Creek Mining ICG Inside Appalachian Voices Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Kentucky Mercury mountaintop Nally & Hamilton Sierra Club Water Sentinels Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards The Appalachian Voice Virginia Water Pollution
Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases
by Jeff Biggers, cross posted from Alternet.org Among the 1.2 million American citizens living in mountaintop removal mining counties in central Appalachia, an additional 60,000 cases of cancer are directly linked to the federally sanctioned strip-mining practice. That is the…
