Local clubs to screen mining documentary at Amherst Town Library

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Women Making a Difference and the New Hampshire Sierra Club are sponsoring a viewing of Coal Country, a documentary about mountaintop removal coal mining in rural Appalachia, on March 28 at the Amherst Town Library.

Doors to the Johnson Room downstairs in the library will be open at 1:30 p.m. The movie will be shown at 2 p.m., with a discussion to follow. Mountaintop removal mining is the highly controversial practice of mining in which large machinery is used to remove the layers of earth from the peaks of hills and mountains to expose and extract veins of coal deposits.

This program is free and open to the public, and donations will be accepted at the door.

Refreshments will be served. For more information, call Catherine Corkery at Catherine.corkery@sierraclub.org or 224-8222.