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By arimoore, on December 8th, 2009% Trumansburg Fire Hall, Route 96/Main Street
Marty Luster, Ken Zeserson, and Judy Abrams will facilitate the Q & A after the film, and discuss regional gas drilling concerns, and what you can do about it.
Split Estate is a multiple-award-winning documentary which examines the conflicts between land owners in the western U.S. and those who own and extract the energy and mineral rights below.
FREE and open to all. Handicap accessible. Parking in the Fire Hall lot and along Main St (Rte 96), but please do not block any of the firehouse doors (both front and rear of the building). We are all volunteers, so donations are appreciated.
By arimoore, on October 12th, 2009% Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition presents the local premier of the film, SPLIT ESTATE: What you don’t know about natural gas production can hurt you. Discussion to follow.
7pm Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Lost Dog Café Violet Room
222 Water Street, Binghamton, NY
It sounds like a nightmare from the Twilight Zone. Picture this. 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 (2009, 76min) 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.”
Ordinary homeowners and ranchers absorb the cost. Actually, we all pay the price in this devastating clash of interests that extends well beyond the Rockies. Aggressively seeking new leases in as many as 32 states, the industry is even making a bid to drill in the New York City watershed, which provides drinking water to millions, and throughout upstate New York and Pennsylvania. As public health concerns mount, 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.
This series, which runs for five Tuesdays this fall, features films and discussions on how we can work together to create a more sustainable region. The next screenings in the series are on October 27, November 10 and December 8. This series is organized by Binghamton University Environmental Studies students of “Sustainability and Social Movements” in partnership with the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition.
For more information contact Gabriel Piser, Adjunct Lecturer, Environment Studies, Latin American Studies, Binghamton University, at gabrielpiser@gmail.com
Coordinating Committee: Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition. Press contact: flint@igc.org, 607-761-8337
By arimoore, on October 9th, 2009% 11/3 7 pm at Cornell Cinema (Willard Straight Hall) with an introduction by Shaleshock representative Helen Slottje
The natural gas drilling boom hit the midwest with promised of big money and promises of a clean alternative to fossil fuels. The reality has been far more complicated, with landowners forced to accept drilling rigs right outside their front doors, groundwater becoming contaminated, and public health issues, especially among children. Split Estate focuses on Garfield County, Colorado, where the breathtaking panoramas and clear mountain water are threatened by an industry that is exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act , and where one resident demonstrates the degree of benzene contamination by setting a stream alight with a match. A cautionary tale, and one that is all the more important to hear now, and in the Finger Lakes, as gas companies prepare for a massive hydro-fracking push throughout our area. “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.” (Gov. Bill Richardson, New Mexico)
2009, color, 1 hour 16 minutes, USA
By arimoore, on October 9th, 2009% 10/23 7 pm free screening at Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 North Aurora Street, co sponsored by the Unitarian-Universalist Social Justice Council and Shaleshock. Followed by discussion and presentation of information about impacts of gas drilling in Marcellus Shale
The natural gas drilling boom hit the midwest with promised of big money and promises of a clean alternative to fossil fuels. The reality has been far more complicated, with landowners forced to accept drilling rigs right outside their front doors, groundwater becoming contaminated, and public health issues, especially among children. Split Estate focuses on Garfield County, Colorado, where the breathtaking panoramas and clear mountain water are threatened by an industry that is exempt from federal protections like the Clean Water Act , and where one resident demonstrates the degree of benzene contamination by setting a stream alight with a match. A cautionary tale, and one that is all the more important to hear now, and in the Finger Lakes, as gas companies prepare for a massive hydro-fracking push throughout our area. “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.” (Gov. Bill Richardson, New Mexico)
2009, color, 1 hour 16 minutes, USA
By arimoore, on September 21st, 2009% Come see Split Estate in Elmira Heights:
WHEN: Tuesday, September 29th at 7:00 p.m. & Saturday, October 3rd at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Heights Theater, 210 East 14th Street, Elmira Heights, NY 14903
DETAILS: Screening of the 2009 Award-winning film Split Estate, 76 minutes
Screening and discussion of Split Estate, documentary exploring the damage done to human and animal health, water supply, air quality, property, soil and local economies when high-pressure, horizontal hydraulic fracturing is used to extract gas from shale located deep within the earth. Click here to watch the trailer.
FREE! ALL ARE WELCOME!
These film screenings are brought to you by Red Rock Pictures and Producer Debra Anderson www.splitestate.com and co-sponsored by Bath Peace and Justice Group; Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition; Committee to Protect the Finger Lakes; Concerned Citizens of Ulysses; Finger Lakes Progressives; League of Women Voters of Steuben County; Pax Christi Elmira; Pax Christi Upstate New York; Peaceful Gatherings; Shaleshock; Steuben Greens and Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Big Flats
By shirari, on March 22nd, 2009% Bath Fire Hall
50 E. Morris Street
Bath, NY (Steuben County)
(Google map)
Film: “Rural Impact!” about environmental and health hazards that have occurred in Colorado
Speakers: Rachel Treichler, attorney & Jean Wosinski, geologist
This informational meeting is sponsored by the LWV of Steuben County (officially the League of Women Voters, but men have belonged for years).
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About Us Shaleshock is an information hub connecting people to regional groups and projects working to stop exploitative drilling in the Marcellus Shale.(more)
2009 Signs of Sustainability
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