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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 LOBBY WARNS WIND FARMS MAY BLOW EARTH OFF ORBIT
Is the US doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the sun? Satire from The Onion. Watch funny coal lobby video.
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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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Between The Lines
Activists Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Face Political, Education Battles —
27 Mar 2013 —
Blowing the tops off mountain ridges to get at the coal seams beneath—and dropping the rocks and other debris into mountain streams below—continues unabated, mainly in West Virginia, where the politicians are literally 100% behind the coal industry. Two activists with the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation toured Connecticut recently, speaking at area colleges and other venues. Paul Corbit Brown explains why people the US does not need to depend on coal, and why public education on the ills of coal mining is a good strategy.
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NPR
Wisconsin's Scott Walker: "I Am Iron Man" —
25 Feb 2013 —
Plagued by a stagnant economy, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is pushing a rewrite of state mining laws to clear the way for a massive open-pit iron mine. Although it's been mostly dormant for more than 50 years, proponents hope reopening the mine will rejuvenate an industry that helped build Wisconsin generations ago. But the proposal's sweeping changes to environmental protections have met fierce opposition.
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Political Analysis
Tar Sands Oil Extraction—The Dirty Truth —
17 Oct 2012 —
This show features excerpts from the documentary Tar Sands Oil Extraction—The Dirty Truth, which exposes the destruction and pollution associated with the world's largest extraction operation, Canada's Tar Sands project. ~~ The program also features excerpts from Chris Hedges' speech, "How Corporations Destroyed America," in which Hedges talks about the ravages of unlimited corporate power and how consumers have internalized corporate values to the extent that we barely know who we are.
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