Mountaintop Removal Road Show

David Cooper’s “Mountaintop Removal Road Show” is coming to Keene this
Wednesday Night, April 16th, 7pm
At Antioch University New England’s Community Room

The Road Show is a 70-minute presentation by David Cooper, which includes a stunning 25-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on residents, communities, and the environment in the southern Appalachians. It also features traditional Appalachian mountain music, a focus on alternative forms of energy and economic development, and storytelling about the grassroots citizen movements working hard to save the Appalachian mountains from corporate pillage driven by short-term profits.

After 20 years working as a mechanical engineer, most recently at the 3M plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky that makes Post-it notes, Cooper decided to devote his full attention to environmental activism. What changed his life was seeing a mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. He is now a member of the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and has worked as a coalfield organizer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.

The program, sponsored by Antioch New England’s Department of Environmental Studies, is free and open to the public. For more information about the event, contact Steve Chase at 603-283-2336.

And here are a few resources available in the library:

• The new resource wars: native and environmental struggles against multinational corporations
• To save the land and people: a history of opposition to surface coal mining in Appalachia
• Monacans and miners: Native American and coal mining communities in Appalachia
• Public domain, private dominion: a history of public mineral policy in America
• The effect of copper mine drainage on the Benthic macroinvertebrate communities in a central Vermont river
• Pike Hill Mine, Corinth, Vermont : a study of the geology, history, and environmental impacts