The Mountaintop Removal Road Show

The Mountaintop Removal Road Show includes a stunning 22-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal on coalfield residents, communities and the environment, and features traditional Appalachian mountain music and shocking aerial photos of decapitated Appalachian mountains.

Coalfield residents such as "mountain man" Larry Gibson, of Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, 2003 Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds of Coal River Mountain Watch, or Teri Blanton of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth who live next to mountaintop removal mines are available to speak after the slide show.

Road Show presentation times can be tailored to your needs, usually 50 minutes to 90 minutes is best.

The Mountaintop Removal Road Show has been shown over 500 times in sixteen states since 2003 - including over 100 large and small universities such as Duke, Antioch, and Ohio State, plus many church, community and civic organizations.

There is no charge for the presentation, all speakers are volunteers; however donations and honorariums to defray gas and travel expenses are gratefully accepted.

Photos of mountaintop removal in Kentucky

Comments from students at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia

In West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, coal companies blast as much as 600 feet off the top of the mountains, then dump the rock and debris into mountain streams. Over 300,000 acres of the most beautiful and productive hardwood forests in America have already been turned into barren grasslands. Mountaintop removal mining increases flooding, contaminates drinking water supplies, cracks foundations of nearby homes, and showers towns with dust and noise from blasting. Photo credit: Jim Clark, www.jimclarkphotography.com