• Still Hunkered Down

    Posted by danrad on August 2, 2020

    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

    Posted by danrad on August 2, 2020

    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

    Posted by danrad on August 2, 2020

    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…


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  • The Good Gets Better

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    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

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    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

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    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

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    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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  • West Virginia Rivers Coalition and Trout Unlimited Report on Pipelines

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    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)…


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  • Delay for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, co-owners of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, have asked federal regulators for a two year extension.  They now say the 600 mile pipeline will…


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  • Changes Coming to the National Forests

    Posted by danrad on July 2, 2020

    By John McFerrin             Many, many years ago a coal operator in eastern Kentucky was quoted as saying, “Green?  You want green, we’ll just take all…


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