The Clark Fork-Pend Oreille Coalition, Trout Unlimited, the Montana Environmental Information Center and Women's Voices for the Earth will host a public showing of Mining Seven Up Pete, a documentary film about the open-pit, cyanide heap leach mine proposed for the banks of the Blackfoot River. The film earned Best Amateur Film honors at the 1996 International Wildlife Film Festival and includes interviews with Blackfoot Valley landowners, conservationists, state regulators and representatives from the Seven Up Pete Joint Venture.

The video documents the broad spectrum of environmental problems at other heap leach mine in Montana, including cyanide spills, acid mine drainage, and poisoned water supplies. In addition, it highlights the potentially devastating impacts this mine could have on the Blackfoot's renowned trout fishery, particularly for the dwindling bull and westslope cutthroat trout populations that have found a stronghold in the project area streams.

A panel discussion/question and answer session with many of the folks in the film will follow the showing, including Paul Roos and Bruce Farling of Trout Unlimited and Geoff Smith of the Clark Fork Coalition. Once the formal presentations are done, a reception with juice soda and beer will follow. Folks interested in learning more about the mining proposal are encouraged to attend and bring their friends.