NCC Eco-Justice Program
screens “Dirty Business,”
an award-winning documentary on mountaintop removal
York
Harbor, Maine,
December 9, 2011 – The film, “Dirty Business: ‘Clean Coal’ and the
Battle for our
Energy Future,” was screened here this week at
St. George’s
Episcopal Church.
The
award winning film, produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, was
shown as part of the National Council of Churches long-standing campaign
against mountaintop removal. “Dirty Business” examines the social and
environmental costs of coal power.
United
Methodist Bishop Cliff Ives, now retired from West Virginia,
came to the screening to describe the two-decade-long advocacy efforts of
the
United
Methodist
Church and other
faith groups to halt mountaintop removal coal mining.
The next
NCC-sponsored screening of “Dirty Business” is 10 a.m. on December 10 at the
Dayton,
Ohio,
Peace
Museum,
208 West Monument Ave. in Dayton. This showing will be
in collaboration with Ohio Interfaith Power and Light as a part of its eco
film series.
The Eco-Justice Program office of
the National Council of Churches works in cooperation with the NCC
Eco-Justice Working Group to provide an opportunity for the national bodies
of member Protestant and Orthodox communions to work together to protect and
restore God's Creation.
For more
information or to schedule a film screening and program contact William
Layton, NCC Eco-Justice Fellow at
william@nccecojustice.org
Since its founding in 1950, the National Council of
the Churches of Christ in the USA has been the leading force for
shared ecumenical witness among Christians in the United States. The NCC's
37 member communions -- from a wide spectrum of Protestant, Anglican,
Orthodox, Evangelical, historic African American and Living Peace
churches -- include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local
congregations in communities across the nation.
NCC News contact:
Philip E. Jenks, 212-870-2228 (office), 646-853-4212 (cell),
pjenks@ncccusa.org
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