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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Cindy Ellis In 2012, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and allies hosted a “Wellness and Water” conference in Morgantown, followed by similar day-long or weekend meetings in Buckhannon in [...]
Leer Mine Revision Threatens the Tygart
By Cindy Rank For the past ten years readers of the Highlands Voice have seen a multitude of articles about Arch Coal’s ICG Tygart Leer mine next to the Tygart Lake and [...]
Bluestone Coal Sings the Blues
By Cindy Rank Voice deadlines often rattle my brain as I puzzle over how to relate a recent development in some one of our, by now, four score and umpteen legal [...]
One of the perils facing migratory birds is collisions with buildings. Estimates on how many birds die annually from collisions with buildings vary widely but, in the United States, it is [...]
Trout Unlimited and Forest Service Team Up to Reconnect Trout Stream in Virginia
By Dylan Cooper An important historical site in Virginia got a long-awaited face-lift after more than 70 years of being hampered by the presence of man-made barriers to aquatic organism [...]
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Law
By John McFerrin Now that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been cancelled, there will always remain the question of whether it was ever really possible. Of course, anything is possible [...]
As reported in the May issue of The Highlands Voice, a United States District Court Judge in Montana has voided Nationwide Permit 12, an important permit that is necessary for waterways and [...]
More Climate Change Survey Data
As reported in earlier issues of The Highlands Voice, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy has published a survey (March, 2020) on climate change and published the results of the survey (May, 2020). [...]
