Clip of the Week: ‘The Dust’ in Libby, Montana, Part V

By Doug Hawes-Davis, 5-04-09

In this scene from our feature documentary, “Libby, Montana,” former mine-worker, Bob Wilkins, talks about the irony of the cover-up in Libby and former Plant Manager, Earl Lovick, answers questions about the company’s moral obligation to inform mine and mill workers about the health risks present there. Dru Carr and I shot the interview with Bob Wilkins in 2000. The scene from the closing of the mine is from a Libby home movie recorded in 1990. Earl Lovick’s commentary is from a deposition recorded during a civil case against WR Grace in the 1990s. Lovick died in 1996.

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Editor’s Note: Look for the High Plains Films clip of the week every week on our pages. This month, as the W.R. Grace trial grinds on in Missoula (click here for coverage), the clips come from the High Plains feature documentary Libby, Montana, which explores the company’s contamination of the community.

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