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245 00 Hard Coal: Last Of The Bootleg Miners|h[Kanopy electronic 
       resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (streaming video file) 
306    Duration: 80 minutes 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
500    Title from title frames. 
500    In Process Record. 
518    Originally produced by MVD Entertainment Group in 2008. 
520    A fatal mining accident in the hills of Pennsylvania, the 
       subsequent suicide of the mine's owner, and the forced 
       abandonment of eight of the last 12 surviving anthracite 
       mines in the United States. These are the recent plagues 
       that have defined the once proud and prosperous tradition 
       of anthracite coal mining. They are also the tragedies 
       that have prompted the drastic transformation of our 
       feature documentary film, Hard Coal: Last of the Bootleg 
       Miners. These family-owned mines, which were built by hand
       generations ago, had fallen into near extinction. The 
       miners we interview have provided ample evidence that the 
       federal government, through the Mine Safety and Health 
       Administration (MSHA), is orchestrating a deliberate 
       crusade to push these "mom-and-pop" mines out of business 
       so that multi-national energy corporations can appropriate
       the miners' land. Although it was mine owner Pete Shingara
       who told our film cameras in 2005, "(The government) won't
       take me out of here in handcuffs. They'll take me out in a
       coffin," it was his friend, mine owner David (Stu) 
       Himmelberger, who executed that promise after his friend 
       and employee, Dale Reightler, was accidentally killed at 
       work in October 2006. We also explore what will likely 
       happen if/when energy monoliths commandeer Pennsylvania's 
       relatively eco-friendly anthracite industry by adding some
       heart wrenching comparisons to the bituminous strip-mining
       industry in Virginia and West Virginia, where mountain top
       removal has replaced mining . Hard Coal: Last of the 
       Bootleg Miners explores the near eradication of this group
       of hard-working Americans who merely wish, as their 
       fathers and grandfathers before them, to provide for their
       families while helping their country develop a sustainable
       energy policy. They don't want welfare. They don't want 
       prison. They don't want to die in an accident or by their 
       own hands. They just want to mine the anthracite whose 
       veins run deep through their native soil. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
653    Health and Safety 
653    History - Modern 
700 1  Brodzik, Marc,|efilmmaker 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
856 40 |uhttps://naperville.kanopy.com/node/124951|zAvailable on 
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