Category: Natural Resources

  • Call for a Moratorium on New Permits for Natural Gas Wells

    On Saturday, December 1, 2012 the State Board of the West Virginia League of Women Voters voted unanimously in favor of signing on to a “Call for a Moratorium on New Permits for Natural Gas Wells”.  In doing so, we join several other organizations who want to send this strong message to leadership in our […]

  • Stop the Noise!

      Stop the noise!  Sounds simple, doesn’t it?  But it is not.   At the Natural Resources committee meeting of LWV of Morgantown-Monongalia on November 19th, 2012, the brutal reality of what happens when citizens have no recourse when their welfare is threatened became painfully apparent to us all in a loud way. In the […]

  • Water and Wellness: Health Impacts of Fossil Fuel Extraction

    Sept. 8th Conference, Morgantown, WV     Media Advisory                                                                                             Aug.  27, 2012 Contact: Robin Blakeman, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, 304-840-4877 or robin@ohvec.org Cindy Rank, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, 304-924-5802 or clrank2@gmail.com Bill Price, Sierra Club, 304-389-8822 or bill.price@sierraclub.org   What:             Water and Wellness: Health Impacts of Fossil Fuel Extraction Keynote speaker, […]