The Mountaintop Removal Road Show with Dave Cooper

Details:

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Location: Iowa City Public Library Room B

Sponsor: Sierra Club

Contact: Mike Carberry 319-338-8820

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.

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.

The Mountaintop Removal Road Show has been shown over 350 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.

Dave Cooper is a resident of Lexington, Kentucky. After 20 years working as a mechanical engineer in various industries, most recently at the 3M plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky that makes Post-it notes, he decided to devote his full attention to environmental issues after seeing a mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.

He is a member of the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and worked for a year as a coalfield organizer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC). He is currently on a national speaking tour to educate communities across America about Mountaintop Removal.

Mike Carberry

Chair Iowa City Area Group of the Sierra Club

2029 Friendship St.
Iowa City IA 52245

Phone: 319-338-8820
Mobile: 319-594-6453