>From a library list I'm on - looks interesting. Gail
---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Bullfrog Films has an upcoming new release called A SPLIT ESTATE that > may be of interest to your readers of Green Notes and/or the Electronic > Green Journal. Would you like to receive a DVD for possible inclusion as > a review? > > "Split Estate is an eye-opening examination of the consequences and > conflicts that can arise between surface land owners in the western > United States, and those who own and extract the energy and mineral > rights below. This film is of value to anyone wrestling with rational, > sustainable energy policy while preserving the priceless elements of > cultural heritage, private enterprise above-ground, and the precious > health not only of people but the land itself." Bill Richardson, > Governor of New Mexico > > About the film: > > SPLIT ESTATE asks us to 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. 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. > > 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. > > More details on this film can be found on our webpage at the following > link: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/split.html > > A trailer is included on the filmmaker's webpage: > http://splitestate.com/ > > If you have any questions on the film, please let me know, and thank you > for your consideration. > > Contact: > Stephanie Miller > Reviews Coordinator > Bullfrog Films > P.O. Box 149, Oley, PA 19547 > Phone: 1.800.543.3764 > Fax: 610.370.1978 > http://www.bullfrogfilms.com <blocked::http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/> > http://www.youtube.com/bullfrogfilms > <blocked::http://www.youtube.com/bullfrogfilms> > > -- Gail Steinhart 318 Columbia Street Ithaca, NY 14850-5904 h: 607.275.7325 c: 607.227.3266 _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
