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Apr 22, 2008 · Burning the Future: Coal in America: Directed by David Novack. With Maria Gunnoe, Bill Raney, Rocky Hackworth, Chrystal Gunnoe. Burning the Future: Coal in America examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the Coal Industry and residents of West Virginia.
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- Documentary
- David Novack
- 2008-04-22
Burning the Future: Coal in America is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Novack. The film focuses on the impacts of mountaintop mining in the Appalachians, where mountain ridges are scraped away by heavy machinery to access coal seams below, a process that is cheaper and faster than traditional mining methods but is ...
- David Novack
- Alexis Zoullas, David Novack
- Raz Mesinai
- David Novack, Richard Hankin
May 25, 2012 · Burning the Future: Coal in America dramatically documents the devastating environmental, health and social impact our addiction to coal has on West Virgina, where mountaintop removal mining has obliterated 1.4 million acres of mountains and polluted the groundwater. The film profiles the courageous West Virginians who challenged the powerful ...
In Burning the Future: Coal in America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by emerging "clean coal" energy policies, local activists watch a world blind to the devastation caused by coal's extraction.
- HDCam and D-Cinema
- 56 minutes
- 89 minutes
- 2008 & 2012
Movie Info. Residents of West Virginia battle the coal industry after their ground water becomes toxic and 1.4 million acres of mountains disappear. Genre: Documentary.
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- February 29, 2008
- David Novack
- Documentary
May 24, 2022 · Burning the Future: Coal in America is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Novack. The film focuses on the impacts of mountaintop mining in the Appalachians, where mountain ridges are scraped away by heavy machinery to access coal seams below, a process that is cheaper and faster than traditional mining methods but is ...
In BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, ordinary ...
