THE COAL WAR Trailer
THE COAL WAR: FIGHTING TO SAVE A MOUNTAIN AND ITS PEOPLE
One woman.
One mountain.
One last chance.
Set among a backdrop of one million acres of decapitated mountains blown up by the coal industry, one woman fights to save one of the last untouched Appalachian mountains and the place she calls home.
STORY SYNOPSIS
Coal River Mountain is an ancient Appalachian cradle of rolling ridges and nestled hollows, providing refuge for delicate wildlife and a home to a unique mountain culture. But just beneath the surface lays something that calls into question the mountain’s very survival: $4.3 billion in coal. Massey Energy, the largest coal company operating in West Virginia, holds permits to clear-cut 6,600 acres of hardwood forest, detonate thousands of tons of explosives and topple the mountain range into the valley below.
Since the 1960s, residents in the coal fields of West Virginia have fought to preserve their land, only to watch the coal industry continue to ruthlessly destroy mountains and uproot their ways of life. While the consequences of mountaintop removal are severe – lethal flooding, water contamination, cancer pockets and the complete annihilation of the land on which families have lived for generations – the powerful coal companies have remained unstoppable. Recently, however, new hope has appeared in the form of a viable energy alternative to mountaintop removal: Wind Power.
The Coal War documents a campaign that could serve as the foundation of one of great shifts in human history – the movement to break the addiction to a fossil fuel-based economy and shift to one rooted in renewable, green energy.
Music by Pamela Chen and Elaine Purkey.
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