The fight for Coal River Mountain is on, as its residents face off with Big Coal and the controversial mining method, mountaintop removal. Activists organize and demonstrate in an effort to bring attention to their plight: Appalachia is succumbing to toxic air and water, noise pollution, cancer clusters, and decrepit, sludge-filled reservoirs. Meanwhile Massey Energy, one of the region’s largest employers, pits resident against resident in a battle of jobs and energy versus health and environmental protection. Politicians, too, are torn, as energy lobbyists and incensed constituents alike make their cases and plead for advocacy. Filmmaker Bill Haney captures the complex gravity of the debate and the debaters in this gripping depiction of what mountaintop mining simultaneously provides and takes away.  TM