Mountaintop Removal Road Show

Speaker Series: David Cooper's Presentation Comes to ANE
Release Date: 4/4/2008
Date: 4/16/08
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: ANE Community Room

What Is The Mountaintop Removal Road Show?
The Road Show is a 90-minute presentation by David Cooper, which includes a stunning 22-minute slide show about the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining on residents, communities, and the environment in the southern Appalachians. It also features traditional Appalachian mountain music, a focus on alternative forms of energy and economic development, and updates about the grassroots citizen movements working to save the Appalachian mountains from corporate pillage driven by short-term profits.

What Is David Cooper's Background?
After 20 years working as a mechanical engineer, most recently at the 3M plant in Cynthiana, Kentucky that makes Post-it notes, Cooper decided to devote his full attention to environmental activism. What changed his life was seeing a mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. He is now a member of the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and has worked as a coalfield organizer for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.

The Program Is Free and Open to the Public