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Pollinators Often Tiny in Size, These Bees, Birds, Butterflies, Moths and More Play an Enormous Role in Nature AppalachianThe FREE June/July 2018VOICE Remarkable Pollinators Often tiny in size, these bees, birds, butterflies, moths and more play an enormous role in nature Keeping Bees • Hazards of Herbicides Make Your Yard a Pollinator Paradise ALSO INSIDE Adventures The Cost Pipeline at Hidden of Coal Resistance Rocks Cleanup Grows ATheppalachianVOICE Across Appalachia A note from our executive director Northam promised a stream- A publication of In late May, a Virginian named sounding the alarm. by-stream review of water AppalachianVoices Fern set up camp on a tree platform The governors of crossings on the campaign Conservation Groups Purchase Managing GenX Contamination trail last year, which the state NC: 589 W. King St., Boone, NC 28607 • 828-262-1500 to block construction of the Moun- North Carolina, Vir- On May 17, North Carolina House like the potentially cancer-causing GenX VA: 812 E. High St., Charlottesville, VA 22902 • 434-293-6373 tain Valley Pipeline. This came after ginia and West Virginia has failed to deliver. Land in Western North Carolina Democrats and House and Senate from infiltrating municipal water supplies. Other Regional Offices: Knoxville, TN • Norton, VA the U.S. Forest Service barred an- should join Virginia Sen. Residents along both This spring, two land trust groups executive director, in a blog post. Republicans filed separate legislation Upgrading the plant to the new AppalachianVoices.org | [email protected] other tree-sitting pipeline protester’s Tim Kaine and U.S. rep- pipeline routes are docu- purchased a total of 190 acres of unpro- The purchase was funded by the to address the emerging contaminant granular activated carbon treatment menting violations and test- tected land, waterways and habitats in nonprofit organization Conservation EDITOR .................................................MOLLY MOORE access to food, water and medical resentatives from both GenX. The proposals differ in funding system would take about two years and ASSOCIATE EDITOR .................................. KEVIN RIDDER care, and a judge imposed fines parties in calling for federal regula- ing water quality, providing North Carolina. Trust for North Carolina and con- allocated to the N.C. Department of require customers to pay a 7 percent CONSULTING EDITOR & DESIGNER.......... JAMIE GOODMAN on two women who established a tors to reconsider the improperly more evidence that these projects The Southern Appalachian High- servation supporters Fred and Alice Environmental Quality. increase in total water and sewer bills DISTRIBUTION MANAGER ................... MEREDITH SHELTON cannot be built without putting House Bill 968 offers the NCDEQ — costs that the utility hopes to recoup EDITORIAL ASSISTANT .............................. SARA CROUCH treetop camp in their own backyard, approved projects. And they should lands Conservancy, which protects Stanback. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ........................ HANNAH GILLESPIE forcing them down. halt construction while this vital as- people, water and ecosystems at risk. over 71,000 acres of North Carolina and With support from the Foothills over $14 million, while Senate Bill 724 through litigation against Chemours, EDITORIAL ASSISTANT .........................ASHLEY GOODMAN By supporting the profiteering sessment takes place. It’s time for state leaders to act. Tennessee, added areas in Buncombe Conservancy, a land trust group based proposes more than $1.3 million for the the manufacturing plant tied to GenX EDITORIAL ASSISTANT ..............................SHELBY JONES agency. Both bills would address the contamination around Wilmington. GRAPHIC DESIGNER ............................. JIMMY DAVIDSON aims of a private fracked-gas pipeline States also have the authority — For a just future, and Henderson counties along the in Morganton, N.C., the Tuttle Forest department’s permitting backlogs. Between August 2011 and Febru- GRAPHIC DESIGNER ..................................CARA ADEIMY company and monopoly utilities and responsibility — to protect their Eastern Continental Divide in April. Foundation purchased 20 acres of GenX is a fluorinated chemical ary 2018, similar filters were installed at over the clear will of the people, the own waters. Unfortunately, Virginia The new properties include 155 acres land in Caldwell County that adjoins DISTRIBUTION VOLUNTEERS: Courtney Alley, Alison Auci- compound used by companies like drinking water wells in West Virginia and ello, Jill Averitt, Cathy Bachara, Debbie Bahr, Nelson and Lanie government agencies abetting these and West Virginia have so far deferred Tom Cormons, Executive Director of thriving forest at Strawberry Gap and with the 288-acre Tuttle Educational Chemours (a subsidiary of DuPont) to Ohio near a Chemours facility; sampling Bailey, Gretchen Barelski, Ashly Bargman, Becky Barlow, Bec- projects are standing on the wrong to the federal government’s improper ca Bauer, Laura Bayer, Sara Bell, Bob Belton, Teresa Board- 15 acres of rocky bluff at Stony Point. State Forest. manufacture products such as food has shown the filters to be effective at side of history. use of a one-size-fits-all water quality P.S. Our April/May issue focused on wine, Roberta Bondurant, Charlie Bowles, Bethann Bowman, “We are proud to have purchased Tuttle Forest Foundation, a non- packaging, cleaning products, GoreTex removing GenX-related chemicals from Dale Brady, Lynn Brammer, Ben Bristoll, Steve Brooks, Paul The movement to stop the permit without scrutinizing any of natural gas fracking, frack waste, this previously unprotected portion of profit educational organization, worked fabric and non-stick pans. the water. In April, the U.S. Environmental Corbit Brown, Teri Brown, Anne Brown, Christa Brusen, Bill pipelines, and proposed petrochemi- Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast the numerous pipeline water cross- to secure this tract of land for 20 years On May 9, the Cape Fear Public Util- Protection Agency announced that the Bunch, George Burazer, John Calhoun, Pat Calvert, Sarah cal plants and gas storage hubs. We’re the landscape around Hickory Nut Gap, Caskey, Shay Clanton, Helen Clark, Ridge Cook, Dave Cooper, pipelines has vast, and increasingly ings — many on very steep, erosion- ity Authority Board approved new water compound was found in wells near the grateful to the extraordinary volunteers which is a visible landmark to so many to expand their free, public outdoor Dave Copper, George Cortesi, Darlene Cunningham, Nancy broad, backing across geographic prone slopes. treatment methods for its Sweeney plant Petersburg, W.Va., Chemours facility. — Dagley, John David, Sister Davies, Heather Dean, Deborah who helped boost our distribution of people from various vantage points,” education efforts at Tuttle Educational and ideological divides. Legal chal- These states owe it to their citi- in Wilmington, N.C., to prevent chemicals By Hannah Gillespie Deatherage, Tina Del Prete, Denise Der Garabedian, Ellen Dod- that special issue across the region from said Carl Silverstein, the conservancy’s State Forest. — By Shelby Jones son, Cynthia Dunn, Clint Dye, Heather Earp, Bill Elliott, Patricia lenges to both projects have traction, zens to conduct a rigorous state English, Mike Feely, Sandy Forrest, Frank Fry, H A Gallucio, and a growing bipartisan chorus of reviews of the pipelines’ effects on 65,500 to 72,500 copies. Read it online John Gillespie, Dave Gilliam, Scott Goebel, Bruce Gould, Gary state legislators and local officials is water quality. In fact, Virginia Gov. at appvoices.org/thevoice/gas-issue Greer, Tauna Gulley, Kelly Haber, Bill Harris, Christine Harris, Lawsuit Challenges Logging Sale in Cherokee National Forest torney Sam Evans of the Southern Envi- Paul Hayes, Michael Hayslett, Susan Hazlewood, Eberhard Conservation groups filed suit Heartwood — are represented by the streams and watersheds in the area. A ronmental Law Center in a press release. Heide, Sharon Helt, Regina Hendrix, Dr. Laura Henry-Stone, Four other conservation groups Matt Hepler, Cricket Hunter, Tim Huntley, Dakota Icenhour, against the U.S. Forest Service on March Southern Environmental Law Center, logging project on the steep slopes of Nicholas Johnson, Mary K, Debra Kantwell, Thom Kay, Alisa 15 for allegedly allowing unlawful, a nonprofit law firm. The groups are Tumbling Creek would increase the risk — Cherokee Forest Voices, Mountain- Keegan, Denny Keeney, Donita Kennedy, Katie Kienbaum, GET INVOLVED environmental & cultural events high-impact logging in Polk County, concerned with the Dinkey Sale, which of soil erosion and runoff. True, The Wilderness Society and Wild Brianna Knisley, Mary Ann Kokenge, Len Kosup, Deborah South — shared similar concerns with Kushner, Frances Lamberts, Waltr Lane, Don Langrehr, Tracy Star Party dation for their fifth fully solar-powered music See more at appvoices.org/calendar Tenn., along Tumbling Creek in the would allow logging on 534 acres. “The public came forward and said, Leinbaugh, Susan Lewis, Lincoln County Library, Fayette June 15, 8-10 p.m.: The Nature Foundation and festival, this time at Cantrell Ultimate Rafting. Ocoee Ranger District of the Cherokee The three conservation groups ‘We don’t want to see these kinds of ero- the agency. County Library Headquarters, Loy Lilley, Bill Limpert, Marion Charlottesville Astronomical Society host a star- There will be trips down the New River, music, National Forest. expressed concern over potential ir- sion problems on our lands ever again,’ The Cherokee National Forest
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