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Burning The Future: Coal In America

2008, Movie, NR, 89 mins

Burning The Future: Coal In America: Review

Documentary filmmaker David Novack makes no bones about where he stands on "mountaintop removal mining" in West Virginia: He's with ecologist Ben Stout, who calls it "wholesale environmental devastation for cheap coal." While acknowledging that no one administration, coal company or piece of policymaking is to blame, Novack constructs a coherent argument that inexpensive electricity is far more costly than the average American realizes. Novack suggests that just as many c... read more leave a comment