power source
Brent Finnegan -- March 6th, 2008
Last spring, we wrote about where our trash goes and where our electricity comes from. On Tuesday, residents of Harrisonburg and Rockingham will have a chance to meet someone that lives where our energy comes from.
Ed Wiley lives in Raleigh County, West Virginia, where Massey Energy is has a strip mining operation (also known as “mountaintop removal” mining). Filmmaker Mike O’Connell interviewed Wiley in his documentary entitled simply Mountain Top Removal. The film will screen at Court Square Theater Tuesday, March 11 at 7:00 p.m. It’s sponsored by 7G (full disclosure: the screening is also part of the documentary discussion group I helped to start).
Wiley, O’Connell, and Lorelei Scarbro, a spokesperson for Coal River Mountain Watch, will be at Court Square Theater on Tuesday to discuss the film. More info here.
Today on WSVA, Jim Britt will interview some of the people involved with the documentary between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m.
Unfortunately, this is also the date and time of the community discussion on the Middle East at JMU (not to mention the same night as city council)…
When it rains, it pours. The rest of the time, people complain about being bored.
Last night’s screening was well-attended.
You can read Hannah Northey’s story about it in today’s DNR.