This compelling Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.
http://splitestate.com/Watch the Trailer of the movie.
http://www.splitestate.com/video_clips.html
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HEADLINE: Thanks to the fracking boom, we’re wasting more money than ever on fossil fuel subsidies... You probably know that the U.S. government subsidizes fossil fuel production. But here’s something you probably don’t know: Those subsidies have recently increased dramatically.
HEADLINE: Unnatural Gas: How Government Made Fracking Profitable (and Left Renewables Behind)... https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/unnatural-gas-how-government-made-fracking-profitable-and-left-renewables-behind
HEADLINE: How Has Fracking Changed Our Future? Will environmental damage from fracking natural gas will outweigh the gains from using a fuel that is cleaner than oil or coal? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/great-energy-challenge/big-energy-question/how-has-fracking-changed-our-future/
More About The Film 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. Imagine having little recourse, other than accepting an unregulated industry in your backyard. 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.
http://www.greenworldrising.org/
and now I see on CSPAN that the House of Representatives is considering allowing Oil and Gas mining on Federal Land. The hearing had representatives from the corporations but I didn't see any environmentalists. There is a lot of money to be made for the State government and the corporations. New executive order by Trump allows Mining on National Monuments and they are moving ahead with drilling without any concern for the people who live nearby.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April that called for the U.S. Department of the Interior to reexamine the designation of 27 national monuments. Many of these treasured places house archeaological splendors and extraordinary flora and fauna. Without the official national monument designation, these cherished sites across the United States could be subject to cattle grazing, logging and drilling, according to #27 Monuments project, headed by journalist and filmmaker Brent Rose, who wants to educate the public about what's going on and to drive people to the Department of the Inerior's comments page to voice their concerns before the fast approaching July 10 deadline. Rose is attempting to visit as many of the sites in the U.S. as possible and document the journey on Instagram.
http://travel.usnews.com/features/10-national-monuments-at-risk-under-trumps-executive-order
and now I see on CSPAN that the House of Representatives is considering allowing Oil and Gas mining on Federal Land. The hearing had representatives from the corporations but I didn't see any environmentalists. There is a lot of money to be made for the State government and the corporations. New executive order by Trump allows Mining on National Monuments and they are moving ahead with drilling without any concern for the people who live nearby.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April that called for the U.S. Department of the Interior to reexamine the designation of 27 national monuments. Many of these treasured places house archeaological splendors and extraordinary flora and fauna. Without the official national monument designation, these cherished sites across the United States could be subject to cattle grazing, logging and drilling, according to #27 Monuments project, headed by journalist and filmmaker Brent Rose, who wants to educate the public about what's going on and to drive people to the Department of the Inerior's comments page to voice their concerns before the fast approaching July 10 deadline. Rose is attempting to visit as many of the sites in the U.S. as possible and document the journey on Instagram.
http://travel.usnews.com/features/10-national-monuments-at-risk-under-trumps-executive-order
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