Friday, November 27, 2009

GAS DRILLING: Documentary "Split Estate" - Dec. 1

The first Norwich showing of “Split Estate,” a documentary movie that premiered on the Discovery Channel in October, is scheduled to be shown on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at the Chenango County Council of the Arts, Room 101, Norwich, 7 p.m. The film explores the impact of the new method of hydrofracking gas. in an area of Colorado that was the first to experience a gas drilling boom right after the oil and gas industry were exempted from federal protections like the Clean Water Act. Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of the new drilling boom struggle against the growing environmental and social costs to an area. The film is a clarion call for accountability for an area now referred to as a “National Sacrifice Zone.” http://www.evesun.com/news/stories/2009-11-27/8435/Gas-drilling-documentary-show-in-Norwich-next-week/