We stopped by the Appalachian Mountains on the way back home to Hawaii from the east coast and filmed a guy we heard about who has been trying to protect the Moutains for 20 years from a process called MTR, Mountain Top Removal, and when I say REMOVAL I mean it.
They Literally BLOW the whole tops off these mountains and scoop up the coal to cart away and burn and fuck up the air some more...
I have FILM of them actually MINING GRAVEYARDS. I asked the guy, when the last time in History was when PEOPLE were burned in Ovens by an Authoritarian Group, he grinned, he knew what I was talking about. He said he's had everyone from Mike Wallace to Ophra come there and all he gets is LIP SERVICE, stuck between Michael Jackson and Britney Spears for a three minute spot.
When they started mining his 50 acres were the LOWEST spot in the Mountain Chain, NOW they are the HIGHEST.
Entire towns are DROWNING, a Three year old was killed by a Five ton boulder in his bed.. there are TOXIC chemicals, lethal combinations in holding ponds and seeping down into the groundwater. When they blow these hills, hundreds of boulders fly for miles, some crush Trucks and people. You should see the guardrails, smashed from the TOP, not the side.
Here's some Windows Media that I threw together for him, he wants and needs Robert Redford to set down the Caribou and come show his FACE in those Mountains for a bit, I promised Mr Gibson, the "Keeper of the Mountains" that I would Help him.
If I help him I'm helping the earth as well, eh? Turn up those speakers :)
Link:
http://www.tbtmradio.com/video/mtrgibson.wmvAnyone know Robert Redford? I got a film for him I'd like to make, this short was just one evening's work (not the filming, that took all day), and I'd like to go back to this brave man and let him know that the Calvary is COMING.