Our next Eco Film on Friday February 10th will be The Last Mountain.
Genre: Documentary. 2011. English. 95 minutes. Director: Bill Haney
The fight for the last great mountain in America’s Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. With Bobby Kennedy Jr. enlisted as a passionate force for preserving Coal River Mountain and the economic power of the fossil fuel industry twisting democracy to its advantage The Last Mountain highlights a battle for the future of energy that affects us all.