Documentary Recounts Battle To Stop Texas Coal Plants

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(March 27, 2008)--Oscar winner and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford knows the power of a good story.

The movie icon heard about activists trying to halt construction of some coal-burning power plants in Texas.

So the 71-year-old environmentalist, through The Redford Center at the Sundance Preserve, commissioned a documentary.

The result is "Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars."

Redford was in Houston Thursday before a showing of the 34-minute documentary directed by Mat Hames and George Sledge.

The film is being shown in private screenings around Texas and eventually will be broadcast on the Sundance Channel.

Dallas-based TXU, now called Energy Future Holdings, planned to build eleven plants, most of them in Central Texas.

Last February, TXU withdrew eight of the applications.

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