Black Diamonds
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Black Diamonds
mountaintop removal & the fight for coalfield justice
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[edit] About Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds charts the escalating drama in Appalachia over the alarming increase in large mountaintop coal mines. These mammoth operations have covered 1200 miles of headwater streams with mining waste; demolished thousands of acres of hardwood forest; and flattened hundred of Appalachian mountain peaks. Citizen testimony and visual documentation interwoven with the perspectives of government officials, activists, and scientists create a riveting portrait of an American region fighting for its life--caught between the grinding wheels of the national appetite for cheap energy and an enduring sense of Appalachian culture, pride, and natural beauty.
[edit] Advocacy Organizations
- Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
http://www.OhVEC.org - Coal River Mountain Watch
http://www.CoalfieldSustainability.org/signon.php - WV Highlands Conservancy
http://www.WVHighlands.org - Mountain Justice Summer
http://MountainJusticeSummer.org/ - Earthjustice
http://EarthJustice.org
[edit] Other Mountaintop Removal Links
- Appalshop's Buffalo Creek Film Preservation & Digital Outreach Project
http://www.BuffaloCreekFlood.org
- Stop Mountaintop Removal
(a joint effort of OVEC, CRMW, West Virginia Highland Conservancy Appalachian Center for the Economy and Environment, & Earthjustice)
http://www.StopMountainTopRemoval.org
[edit] See also
- Catherine_Pancake
- http://www.myspace.com/blackdiamondsmovie
- http://www.myspace.com/cpancake
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Pancake
