How Fracking Is Harming Rural America | Split-Estate

Imagine discovering that you don't own the mineral rights under your land, and that an energy company plans to drill for natural gas two hundred feet from your front door using the controversial technology known as fracking. Imagine another shocking truth: you have little or no recourse to protect your home or land from such development. SPLIT ESTATE maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new 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 this idyllic landscape and its rural communities 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. Many others, gravely ill, fight for their health and for the health of their children.
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SPLIT ESTATE zeroes in on Garfield County, Colorado, and the San Juan Basin, but the industry is aggressively seeking new leases in as many as 32 states. They are even making a bid to drill in the New York City watershed, which provides drinking water to millions.
As our appetite for fossil fuels increases despite mounting public health concerns, SPLIT ESTATE cracks the sugarcoating on an industry that assures us it is a good neighbor, and drives home the need for alternatives -- both here and abroad.
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[@JewelsOfTheGarden]

The moment you realize that corporations are literally killing you, legally. You push people too far and that’s how someone ends up pushing daisies. I’m not sayin, but I’m just sayin.

[@gwayne919]

All it takes is enough money to bribe the few powerful politicians on key committees and we subsidize the oil industry and it now has that money. It's insanity the way that we never resolve the most important issues of our lives and time once money becomes a part of the equation.

[@robertlussier2944]

These industry representatives just look so evil to me! That lady that claimed to have drank the fracking fluid?(Kathy Hall)She *SAID* she was fine, but look at her eyes!👹

[@queenscorgie2200]

SIMPLE give landowners the mineral rights with the land they buy oh and STOP BRIBING politicians lobbying its CORRUPTION

[@jamespattenden605]

How the hell does oil companies get subsidised and tax rebates when they make so much in profit, there should be no one in governments that has an influence that can aid these companies to get recessions, that is why countries are in so much trouble now. 😢😢😢😢😢

[@stevengill1736]

Is this up to date? There was a lot of protest 10 years ago ("Gasland" and other films), but I haven't heard as much lately. Fracking is tied to oil prices, so it slowed down in the last few years, though now it's probably picking up again....

[@christopherbetty5017]

I don't think so, no one is wearing a mask but they still do fracking. This is good information an educational.

[@christopherbetty5017]

Im surprised at the number of comments, its very low.

[@1776adb]

Those who own mineral rights - love it; those who don't, hate it - bottom line.

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Great closing song.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Counter back by gaining the air rights and then tell them they can't put up their towers.

[@mazer4112]

Sickening. Literally and figuratively.

[@aaronbourn7661]

I will be glad when oil runs out

[@JB-rt4mx]

How about Coal Burning Cars and Trucks..🤔😆

[@christopherbetty5017]

No you won't.

[@christopherbetty5017]

Its call a train.

[@aaronbourn7661]

@@christopherbetty5017 oil companies cause global warming, environmental catastrophes and even war think about it

[@bejakabyle]

United State should cut a vehicle production by 70% . That’s the only way to combat this fracking.

[@KieraCameron514]

Natural gas is eating coal's lunch and that is great. Replacing coal with gas reduces CO2 emissions by half and nearly eliminates particulate emissions. Natural gas is also used to firm wind and solar power.

[@biaiichia4916]

That's what greed gets you n everybody else it's the ones that don't live in it that don't care

[@gwayne919]

The wealthy politicians who got that way on front titty have been blessed with the wealth enough to afford to buy land in the Swiss Alps. We're screwed unless we can make our servants Obey the call to serve the American people honestly.

[@jackiemansfield8325]

I’m 100% with the liberals on banning fracking.

[@RayT70]

MAKE IT STOP !!!

[@psychosis7325]

If a headline asks a question, the answer is usually no.

[@christopherbetty5017]

If we put Solar panels on every roof and drive electric cars which can also serve as a battery bank to store power, it will reduce our use of oil tremendously. We will never stop using oil. We must try to reduce our use of it.

[@rustymugg9658]

The elements to needed for solar panels are destructive to the environment to extract as well

[@wbarney59]

Make cars that run on unicorn pee.

[@Kiyoone]

Oil = same as drugs... People will not stop using it until the last drop... Since USA DEPENDS on CARS... and they do not understand why things are so expensive nowadays...

[@robertlussier2944]

We will stop when the companies stop making money. They will turn off the pumps, lock the gate, declare bankruptcy and leave the mess for the taxpayers to clean up.🙄

[@bejakabyle]

You still didn’t get it ! These scumbags investors don’t care about anyone , they’re only thinking about their packets and themselves. They’re the big lobbyist motivated by money . No single American citizen benefited from this fracking , the nature is destroyed , the health is destroyed , the water is polluted. Do you think they think about citizens ?

[@markbattersby7253]

Agent orange for America

[@lawrencemaweu]

27:00 I love the lady in red. She is devilish and the grin just smells of exploitation

[@ArslanOtcular]

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[@cutter7515]

When you vote for Bush and Cheney or most Republicans this is what your going to get more and more of 😊

[@bejakabyle]

We should ban gas vehicles ! Let’s go electric ⚡️. I’ll drive electric ⚡️ vehicle 🚗 .

[@larrabeejl]

You should've thought about that before you bought the land. Also complaining about drilling for oil as they drive gasoline vehicles. This doesn't excuse the oil companies but you can't complain if it's part of the contract.

[@proudchristian77]

Children, do we still go to church out there, cause it still matters, & those people's will get their day in court , a holy Gods court , as in one 1 , a day of answering is approaching, if you look around you can see it , all over da place, ooooooooooh, dern , u know ! But what we going to do, trust in a holy God , that does the impossible to us thing's, like wow ! things , oh boy things , sweet like 🍯 things , pretty things , wild but beautiful things , take us out in a heart beat things , rescue us from scary places, from iffy places, just gotta call His name , please help, trust that He will , you could be amazed, what have you got to loose, you ask , every thing, when your back is to da wall , & as a population it is , it's been a nice time too , Disney world 4 the kids , a Daddy , a nice daddy, fun, fun & more fun , long bike rides , long walks , beautiful day's at the beach , awesome subsets, awe & wow trees , amazing animals, He like trust me , love me back , awe, ok 💞👣💞👑 .

[@Kiyoone]

Oh, yeah, we totally see those people in jail.