Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight For Coalfield Justice

http://www.blackdiamondsmovie.com/

As part of the 2008 Patuxent River Sojourn, the movie Black Diamonds will be shown on Monday, June 23nd, at the Calvert Marine Museum auditorium at 6:45 pm.  It is open to the public.

Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & The Fight For Coalfield Justice     72 minutes - (Impacts of “mountaintop removal” coal mining.)  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 hundreds of Appalachian mountain peaks.