Stripmining: Energy, Environment, and Economics materials, c.1979
Sub-Series (ap.afc.05.04)
- Extent
- 11 Film containers
- 22 Audio tapes
- 2 Video cassettes
- 9 Photo prints
- 2 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series V. Appalshop Films, 1978-1983 > Stripmining: Energy, Environment, and Economics materials, c.1979
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary Stripmining: Energy, Environment, and Economics, a 1979 release. The documentary looks at the history of this controversial mining method and a citizens’ movement to regulate strip mining that culminated in passage of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. Subjects include strip mining, environmental and economic aspects of coal mining, and coal mining law and legislation.