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Great film Posted on May 11 2008 at 10:12pm by Very educational. I grew up in SW Pennsylvania and saw quite few strip mines and have relatives in the industry. This film should be required viewing for the EPA. If I had one criticism it would be, as one person in the film said, to provide some sort of real alternative. Do these people want a nuclear power plant in their mountains? Coal is dirty and in limited supply, but there doesn't seem to be a feasible solution we can all agree on. I guess for now, we should conserve, conserve. 
RE: Great film Posted on May 13 2008 at 11:55pm by Even though the editors did a good job of representing it, the true scope or extent of damage from mountain top removal across Appalachia is just un-digestable! It is hard to even wrap your mind around. I encourage anyone who has made it this far (to look at this blog) to go to google Earth, and LOOK at southern West Virgina and East Kentucky - and then ZOOM OUT.
It's shocking and Americans DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT.
For people from "somewhere off", it raises a good question : Would you let this happen where you live?
Thank you for making this documentary, & thank you Sundance for showing it.
KEEP SHOWING IT, please!
Only by raising awareness and by gaining support will any real change happen.
RE: Great film Posted on May 14 2008 at 2:20am by Of course conserve. But the point of this film was to show that at any cost these coal companies will get the coal. Cost to the beauty of the mountains, to the habitat for plants and animals and to the health and welfare of the people that live there. I know there are other methods to get the coal that would not require blowing the tops off mountains, and depositing the sludge anywhere. But slower and safer methods would result in lower profits. These companies will not change their methods until forced to. It was ironic to see the coal company feature "Sixteen Tons" in their add promoting clean coal. Don't they even know what the song is saying, that the coal compnay took those miners body and soul and still are.
A great film to be viewed by all Americans. I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia in Ohio. It turns my stomach to see this. Call your congressmen please.