Robert Kennedy's latest atack on surface mining, "The Last Mountain", was shown in Charleston last night. Ken Ward provides this review of the film. Bloomberg News has this account of the film.
I haven't seent he film, so I can't judge it. I hope, though, it shows why residents of the affected counties keep electing representatives who suport the coal industry. There must be some popular support for the industry in coal-mining counties, if only because it's the mainstay of the tax base. And it's probably too much to hope that the film would report on Mr. Kennedy's personal investment in alternative energy, which is heavily subsidized and would benefit from elimination of coal as a fuel. I suspect there's no mention of his NIMBY opposition to a wind farm near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, even while he's encouraging wind farms in West Virginia.
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