From UC Sustainability:
Monday, November 14: Film Series – Split Estate 7pm
@ Rec Center 3250
Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a
new natural gas drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the
erosion of their civil liberties, their communities, and their health.
Exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act, the oil and gas
industry has left the idyllic landscape of Garfield County, Colorado pockmarked
with abandoned homes and polluted waters. One resident demonstrates the
degree of benzene contamination in a mountain stream by setting it alight with
a match.
As the industry aggressively seeks new leases in as many as 32
states (including Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York), Split
Estate cracks the sugarcoating on an industry touted as a clean
alternative to fossil fuels, and poignantly drives home the need for real
alternatives.
See http://www.splitestate.com/the_film.html
for more information. Anyone interested in the current debate on fracking
in the Marcellus Shale should find this documentary a must-see.
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