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SERIOUS AND FUNNY ...
Videos on Coal and Mining Issues
This list of serious and funny videos about coal and mining issues includes videos on clean coal, mountaintop removal mining, metals mining, mining pollution, strip mining, reclamation.
See the rightmost column for additional categories of videos related to mining and coal.
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MINING & COAL VIDEOS
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COAL... THE FUTURE IS LATER — A video satire on the coal industry's use of meaningless platitudes (and sometimes outright deceptions) in their ads. We're also reminded of the general public's blissful ignorance on the subject of energy.
Watch funny coal video.
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FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN, THEN THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN....
This is a really fine 5-minute animation that humorously takes on the serious topic of mountain-top removal mining and the disconnect between distant coal mining and how we just flip on a power switch in our homes. It's more targeted at kids, but I can tell you that this adult enjoyed it just fine! From Green Gorilla/ SustainLane and FreeRange Graphics. Go there
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COAL COMFORT
Stephen Colbert interviews Margaret Palmer, the lead author of a Science journal paper that blasts mountaintop removal mining. Colbert must have had a methane fire in his funny bone—he is hilarious here. Watch funny coal mining video.
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“CLEAN COAL” AIR FRESHENER
This short, funny bit of video satire takes on the loosey-goosey term "clean coal," which the coal industry and its political allies love to pretend is "what we're doing with coal today" rather than "a theoretically possible approach to coal that is completely unproven." In fact, not only are there are no "clean coal" plants operating in the US today, there are none even planned. Repeat after me: "There is no such thing as clean coal." Watch funny clean coal video.
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SOLAR DIRTY, COAL CLEAN!
In this funny video/animation, Mark Fiore (satirically) explains the dangers of solar and wind energy and the advantages of "clean coal." Dirty is the new clean! Watch funny clean coal video.
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COAL & MINING VIDEOS
SERIOUS
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(GOOGLE) EARTH TO MTR MINING ADVOCATES!
This video shows some examples of how you can use Google Earth/Maps to see the scale of destruction from mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. We add two bonus videos: The short film Black Mountain Story and a 10-minute debate on MTR coal mining. Watch mountaintop removal mining videos.
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Videos on Energy, Oil, Peak Oil, Resilience
Videos on Pollution (water, air, land, general)
Videos on All Topics
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Resources for Mining Issues
Resources for Energy Issues
Resources for Pollution
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Living On Earth
Mining Leads to Personal Poisonings — 13 Apr 2012 — Mining often causes water and air pollution that affects surrounding communities. But there is also a direct pollution component that can affect miners directly, from lead exposure for gold miners in Nigeria to silicosis for miners in South Africa.
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NPR
Mining the Ocean Floor — 02 Apr 2012 — Nautilus Minerals of Australia hopes to develop and expand undersea mining by extracting copper, gold, silver and zinc from the seafloor. Environmentalists are, um, less enthusiastic.
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NPR
EPA Plan Targets New Coal-Fired Plants — 27 Mar 2012 — New standard-design coal-fired power plants cannot meet new EPA emissions targets for carbon dioxide (and this will not be built). Many electric companies have already moved on anyway, jumping on the natural gas trend in the US.
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