Straight Talk:  Clean Coal & MTR

One minute trailer for the award winning documentary film Mountain Top Removal hawriverfilms.com



"Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight for Coalfield Justice" is an award-winning documentary exploring coal surface mining, mountaintop removal and radical community resistance in West Virginia: blackdiamondsmovie.com


Mining companies are destroying entire mountains in order to get at the coal inside them. Quickly and efficiently, the oldest mountain range in the world is being systematically obliterated. We sent Meredith and VBS correspondent Derrick Beckles to the hills and hollers of West Virginia to show us what the end of the world looks like.

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Introductory video for the National Memorial for the Mountains, an online memorial in Google Earth that tells the story of 450 mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal.

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A little clip about Big Coal set to "Living In Kentucky" performed by Dave Parker.

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