Cheshire, Ohio
An American coal story in 3 acts
Morgenstern, Eve
http://bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/chesh.html
Publisher: Bullfrog Films
Year First Published: {52490 Cheshire, Ohio CHESHIRE OHIO An American coal story in 3 acts Morgenstern, Eve http://bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/chesh.html Bullfrog Films Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions. 2016 2017 FLM Film/Video -
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<br>A gun toting 83-year old woman refuses to sell her house to the power plant next door but the plant has moved ahead with their 20 million dollar deal to buy out most of Cheshire and bulldoze all the homes. What happened in this Ohio River town overrun by one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the world? A story of money, power and the increasingly difficult choices we face surrounding coal and the environment, CHESHIRE, OHIO makes us think twice about home.
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<br>Filmed over a decade, CHESHIRE, OHIO follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River community after exposing them to harmful emissions, and then returning several years later to the now almost emptied town as we follow the case of 77 plaintiffs who have filed a lawsuit against American Electric Power for cancer and other diseases they developed from working unprotected at the plant's coal ash landfill site.
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<br>As the cycle of pollution from coal continues, we see how one quintessential American town suffers from our reliance on carbon energy. CX22834 0 false true false CX22834.htm [] Cx}
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Film/Video
Cx Number: CX22834
Follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River town, after exposing them to years of harmful emissions.
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Excerpt:
A gun toting 83-year old woman refuses to sell her house to the power plant next door but the plant has moved ahead with their 20 million dollar deal to buy out most of Cheshire and bulldoze all the homes. What happened in this Ohio River town overrun by one of the largest coal-fired power plants in the world? A story of money, power and the increasingly difficult choices we face surrounding coal and the environment, CHESHIRE, OHIO makes us think twice about home.
Filmed over a decade, CHESHIRE, OHIO follows a community devastated by coal, starting with American Electric Power's buyout and bulldozing of this Ohio River community after exposing them to harmful emissions, and then returning several years later to the now almost emptied town as we follow the case of 77 plaintiffs who have filed a lawsuit against American Electric Power for cancer and other diseases they developed from working unprotected at the plant's coal ash landfill site.
As the cycle of pollution from coal continues, we see how one quintessential American town suffers from our reliance on carbon energy.
