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Mind Boggling Mine Bonding
By Cindy RankIn the May 2020 issue of The Highlands Voice and again in June we talked a lot about chickens coming home to roost,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline in the Rearview Mirror
By Lewis Freeman, Executive Director, Allegheny-Blue Ridge AllianceDominion Energy and Duke Energy, partners in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project, announced on July…
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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…
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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…
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Revelations
There is a white skein of fungus fast enveloping in its many tendriled way the…
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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…
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