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August 27, 2013- Video from the National Academies. Editorial note-valleywatch.net is intimately involved in the whole issue of Carbon Capture and Storage and in fact is taking a leadership position on seeking to make sure that a process called “enhanced … Continue reading →

August 15, 2013-Posted on YouTube by Fum Gebra TODAY, YES! Avoiding lethargy and getting as bored as a flan we put our trainers on and go out on an excursion. Always walking forwards, always singing as we walk, we make … Continue reading →

August 8, 2013-by Philip Kuptz  in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Patric Kuptz means it when he says he grew up on the Great Lakes. “I’ve spent most of my life within 50 feet of here,” the 37-year-old said on a … Continue reading →

August 1, 2013-by Tony Cook in the Indianapolis Star. Editors Note: Valley Watch, Inc. has been an intervener with Citizens Action Coalition, Save The Valley  and Sierra Club from the very beginning of this project. In fact, we predicted fairly accurately that … Continue reading →

July 14, 2013-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor

July 14, 2013-by Chris Sikich in the Indianapolis Star. Ed. Note: valley watch.net editor, John Blair has done photography work for Brad Morton and Morton Solar and Wind. Third-grade teacher Donya Bengert and her students learned a real-life lesson when they … Continue reading →

July 8, 2013- by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor I just watched Josh Fox’s Gasland 2. I am having trouble keeping the tears from my eye as I write this “review.” As in Gasland 1, Fox takes us on a journey … Continue reading →

July 8, 2013-Gas to Power Journal. Editor’s note: valleywatch.net does not believe there is such a thing as “clean coal.” That term is nothing but a ruse used by coal interests to dupe a naive public and politicians into thinking that … Continue reading →

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June 24, 2013- Editorial in the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel Both the public and officials should know someone is watching. Mark Lubbers and Mark Massa have been friends a long time. Now, Lubbers represents the developers of the proposed $2.8 billion … Continue reading →

June 21, 2013, By Tim Landis in the Springfield State Journal-Register. Editors note: Valley Watch first opposed the Cash Creek and Taylorville plants in 2001. Louisville based, Erora, sold the the Taylorville proposal to Tenaska in in 2006. Tenaska then … Continue reading →

June 21, 2013-by Kerwin Olson, Executive Director of the Citizens Action Coalition (Editor’s note:Valley Watch has partnered with CAC for seven years to oppose the new Edwardpsort plant, including formal intervention in each of the eleven dockets that Duke has … Continue reading →

June 18, 2013-Press Release form the Nobel Women’s Initiative Ten recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize have written to President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry urging the rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The Laureates, many of … Continue reading →

June 10, 2013-by John Blair valleywatch.net editor

May 28, 2013- by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor  My very first environmental involvement was when I was running for congress in 1976. At the time, industrial and agricultural interests, desiring a cheaper way to transport their wares around the globe … Continue reading →