Susan Sarandon — Mountaintop Removal: An American Tragedy

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Run time: 01:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzwCKoLhDo   Posted on YouTube: April 04, 2011 By YouTube Member: RANVideo Views on YouTube: 4259   Posted on DU: April 11, 2011 By DU Member: Adenoid_Hynkel Views on DU: 210

 
Narrated by Susan Sarandon, this video shows firsthand footage of mountaintop removal coal mining and its impacts on Appalachian mountains, drinking water and families. Mountaintop removal is a mining practice where explosives are used to blast the tops off mountains to expose the thin seams of coal beneath. Once blasted, earth and coal dust from the mountaintop is dumped into neighboring valleys and waterways. Hundreds of mountaintops have been lost forever to MTR, and according to a 2005 environmental impact statement, nearly 2,000 miles of Appalachian streams have already been buried or contaminated by the devastating mining practice. Take action today and tell banks to stop financing this American tragedy at http://ran.org/mtrbanks