Hard Coal: Last Of The Bootleg Miners
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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Originally produced by MVD Entertainment Group in 2008.
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A fatal mining accident in the hills of Pennsylvania, the subsequent suicide of the mine's owner, and the forced abandonment of eight of the last 12 surviving anthracite mines in the United States. These are the recent plagues that have defined the once proud and prosperous tradition of anthracite coal mining. They are also the tragedies that have prompted the drastic transformation of our feature documentary film, Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg Miners. These family-owned mines, which were built by hand generations ago, had fallen into near extinction. The miners we interview have provided ample evidence that the federal government, through the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is orchestrating a deliberate crusade to push these "mom-and-pop" mines out of business so that multi-national energy corporations can appropriate the miners' land. Although it was mine owner Pete Shingara who told our film cameras in 2005, "(The government) won't take me out of here in handcuffs. They'll take me out in a coffin," it was his friend, mine owner David (Stu) Himmelberger, who executed that promise after his friend and employee, Dale Reightler, was accidentally killed at work in October 2006. We also explore what will likely happen if/when energy monoliths commandeer Pennsylvania's relatively eco-friendly anthracite industry by adding some heart wrenching comparisons to the bituminous strip-mining industry in Virginia and West Virginia, where mountain top removal has replaced mining . Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg Miners explores the near eradication of this group of hard-working Americans who merely wish, as their fathers and grandfathers before them, to provide for their families while helping their country develop a sustainable energy policy. They don't want welfare. They don't want prison. They don't want to die in an accident or by their own hands. They just want to mine the anthracite whose veins run deep through their native soil.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brodzik, M. (2015). Hard Coal: Last Of The Bootleg Miners . Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brodzik, Marc. 2015. Hard Coal: Last Of The Bootleg Miners. Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brodzik, Marc. Hard Coal: Last Of The Bootleg Miners Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brodzik, Marc. Hard Coal: Last Of The Bootleg Miners Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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