• Mind Boggling Mine Bonding

    By Cindy Rank In the May 2020 issue of The Highlands Voice and again in June we talked a lot about chickens coming home to roost, how the bonding program in West […]

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  • What’s Next for the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance

    By Lew Freeman             The masthead of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance states that the organization’s mission is: “Protecting the heritage, resources and economy of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge region.”  ABRA was organized to fight […]

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  • Making Connections

    By Cindy Ellis “Intersectional environmentalism” is a new phrase that recently has gotten some attention.     What is it?  Intersectionality is the belief that oppressions are interlinked and cannot be solved alone.  So, intersectional […]

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  • Still Hunkered Down

    Because the pandemic is ongoing, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has cancelled its events.        The quarterly Board meeting set for July was cancelled.  Because our Board contains some persons of a […]

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  • Thoughts from our president

    July has been an exciting month for the West Virginia highlands and various projects that WVHC has been working on for so long. As we say on our web page […]

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  • Atlantic Coast Pipeline in the Rearview Mirror

    By Lewis Freeman, Executive Director, Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, partners in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project, announced on July 5 that they had decided not […]

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  • The Good Gets Better

    The April, 2020, issue of The Highlands Voice celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 583.  It would further the development of renewable energy resources by allowing the state’s utility companies to “plan, design, […]

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  • A Fond Remembrance

    For some while I’ve considered jotting down stories from those early days of organizing West Virginia Highlands Conservancy — often around the table in Pittsburgh Climbers’ rented shack in Onego. […]

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  • Revelations

    There is a white skein                                                     of fungus                                                     fast enveloping                                                     in its many tendriled way                                                     the bone dry                                                     gnarled                                                     shattered shard                                                     of decaying log                                                     I always mark                                                     along the berm                                                     of […]

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  • Thinking about the Economics of Petrochemicals

    By John McFerrin             One of the clichés of our public policy has long been that we have to “balance” the environmental and social costs of coal, oil, and gas extraction […]

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