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The American mining corporations’ dirty little secret finally comes into the light of day - and is being exposed for what it is – sometimes illegal, socially irresponsible and, in many cases, deadly. Uranium mining is scarring the landscape, harming the planet and posing dire health consequences in communities throughout the Southwest of the United States.
One has only to look back in recent environmental history at the devastation and death left in the wake of Love Canal and Third Mile Island to see the future of corporate greed and disregard for the public health and well being. These entities were allowed free reign to dump at will - in the case of Love Canal - and to allow human error to go unchecked at Three Mile Island – both ending up scarring land and lives in the process.
Dark Water charts the background of current companies whose main goal is their bottom line over the well-being and safety of the public at large.
The ground waters are being fouled at an alarming rate and even the stately Grand Canyon is being considered as a future site for Uranium mining. The thought that our grandest national park would ever be considered as a location for this kind of exploitation is beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. Yet it is currently being debated and the negotiations are on the table.
This compelling and enlightening documentary film will follow the trail of destruction and despair chronicling the methods used to leach the uranium from the mines (many times pumping acid into the earth to facilitate the extraction) to the lives affected on a daily basis.
You will ask yourself in the end…”Who will be affected next and what can we do to stop it in the future”?