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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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West Virginia Rivers Coalition and Trout Unlimited Report on Pipelines
By John McFerrin West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina are thick with rivers and streams. More and more, they are (or are proposed to be) thick with pipelines. If the pipelines and […]
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