Updates associated with an interactive documentary project that examines the future of McDowell County, West Virginia. Posts by Elaine McMillion, documentary storyteller and project director of HOLLOW. Interactive experience will launch in May 2013.
Informational Website: www.hollowthefilm.com
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The reality is that neither party platform really speaks the challenges that confront West Virginia’s coalfield communities: Increased competition from natural gas and other coal regions, a declining base of economically extractable reserves, serious water quality and human health issues linked to large-scale surface mining, the deadly toll of black lung disease.
southernish reblogged this from elainemcmillion and added:
Screw you, Big Coal. You’ve destroyed our land and poisoned our people. There needs to be a better way. And screw you...
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