Split Estate Trailer

[71DatsunZ]

Why do people whine about not owning mineral rights? Either

(a) your family sold off the rights long ago to make money

(b) you bought the property for less cost because you don't own the mineral rights

(c) you didn't do your homework when buying the property and didn't realize it. Take responsibility for your own destiny.

[mozaks80]

I saw Gasland too, you yanks are really getting a hard time from your govt and big business, seems you're losing all of your citizen rights slowly, but surely. Sad times indeed, the world used to look up to you for aspiration, now we look over to you to see how bad things can get for common people.

[dodiemuehleisen50]

Probably better than the movie is gonna be! check this in webmovietube

[johnnylovesfootball]

I need to see this. I've seen "Gasland" and would recommend it. I know a family here in Pa who can't drink their water anymore due to contamination from nearby drilling. I'm worried about our water and our future. Our new governor, Tom Corbett, is all about gas-drilling. I'm afraid people are easily influenced by money and won't see the real long-term, negative impacts of drilling on our land. Clean water and the health of our children are invaluable and cannot be monetized.

[Ebdan88]

Weather Wars...?!? Hide all the old seeds you can find and dont eat them. What if next year get worse, and we can not find any reall old days Organic seeds. Wake up people this is really bad please wake up and help your familie and friends to understand what is happening........

[nbarrasse]

"I've had it in my mouth..I've tasted it and I'm just fine." What a load of bullshit she's sipping on.

[coudynews]

@nbarrasse

I'd like to see that woman in 2 years..if she did indeed ingest fracking fluid... but chances are, even she did, it was a minute amount.

[hellozio]

@coudynews even a small amount is hazardous to health

[BradBaldwintheDrumm]

what we do to the earth we do to ourselves

[Smokie1775]

FACT: Hydraulic fracking has been performed over 1 million times without a SINGLE case of ground water contamination.

FACT: EPA studied chemicals in fracking fluid and determined it was safe.

FACT: You can be forced into a production unit, but they can't force their way onto your surface if you own the minerals.

Slick video, crying people, and shocking claims, but at the end of the day, the FACTS disprove this whole clip.

[sloopguy]

@Smokie1775 , you don't know what you're talking about. There are many cases of groundwaterand wellwater polution. There are also cases of near death sickness from fracing. But then of course, you'd have to read some to know that. Obviously you don't do much of that.

[rammsteinfan30]

bullshit

[LGelatt]

I would say that fracking pollution has never been substantiated because we're not able to pin a particular company with particular chemicals because they are exempt from reporting and the EPA is not authorized to investigate. That is kind of a point of the film, if you'd watch the whole thing. It would be a step in the right direction to put fracking back under the Clean Water Act.

[al9cat]

When provable problems arrise from fracking and drilling in general, the companies will pay out in pre-trial leagal settlements, and buy the landowners silence. Toxins do not respect property boundaries;they whaft and leak down to neighbor's lands- lastly, even if you own 100 percent of your mineral rights, yes, you can be incorporated into a drilling unit. Many problems related to frac mishaps continue - across the country, and will likely grow in number.

[Smokie1775]

These environmentalists dont want the EPA to regulate fracking, they want the EPA to ban it. They just wont say that because we would think they were crazy wanting to ban frakcing considering about 98% of all natural gas wells are fracked these days. Good policy.

Im ready to sign up for my tent, horse, and eat nuts and berries the rest of my life, how about you?

[sloopguy]

@Smokie1775 You wouldn't have a clue how to source healthy food for yourself. Just like the corporations for decades told the world tobacco was safe, the gas industry is trying to do the same. This will get shut down. Bet on it.

[hellozio]

@sloopguy well we can only live in hope that they get shut down

[Smokie1775]

Fact: There is not a SINGLE substantiated case of fracking fluids entering a water source. Drilling at 10,000 ft doesn't affect water aquifers at 250 ft. Showing people crying about not owning their mineral rights is just to take us away from the facts that the crying people bought the property without the mineral rights. You don't truly own your property unless you own/control the minerals rights.

[caribousteaks]

what a load of nonsense! I breath air walking down the street; pollution from cars cause disease thus ban all cars?!? How ridiculous! Maybe if you suck on the gas seeps for an hour a day, then one might feel sick or die, but otherwise the films connecting rational is a load of hooky. Gas and oil seeps happen naturally by the way. No complaints there. I agree though, drilling on top of those folks was wrong, there should be a 1000 foot buffer zone minimum.

[Orca1776]

@caribousteaks , have you any regard for the inherent sanctity of human life? While conservatives such as yourselves bicker over the fact that our own industries are polluting our watersheds and groundwater resources, precious souls are being lost. Entities with a wanton lust for financial gain and profit are undermining the inherent sanctity of human life.

[j8cup]

Have'nt yet seen enough of this flawed coincidence equals causation logic? Find a few egregious offenders, find alledged victims and voila you got grade A demagoguery.

[chordinator]

the link won't post, so check out the split estate website via link above, and the article link is on the front page.

[chordinator]

Wow, what an eye opening film. It's always fun to see the reactions posted on anything of this nature. And after seeing the negative reactions in a couple posts, I'll throw in this link to an article in the Denver Post today which I just found on the Split Estate site.  I wonder how much pressure she was under to resign...

[maellemagali]

I watched this entire film on Planet Green today and found out that the oil and gas industry is exempt from many laws that protect our land, water, air and conservation laws. What better use of the laws? Shame on those politicians and businesses involved. How can they sleep nights? Oh that's right these people are standing in the way of progress.

[sewingmum]

The lady telling what chemicals there are is tragic. As a survivor of the gas and oil industry "alleged" illegal releases of hydrogen sulfide or H2S especially. The guy towards the end told how so many people were getting sick, all over the country. HIS COMMENTS ALONE SHOULD WAKE UP UP PEOPLE.

That woman at the end just crying from having to walk is me alot of days. Thanks gas and oil for destroying my health.

[nastassjaleenowll]

Finally, if there is a chance that an industrial practice will continue to ruin many children's entire lives (and adults' too) shouldn't we just abandon that practice?  Is oil and natural gas more precious than our own lives? Humans have lived better lives than most of us do now, without natural gas stoves to barbeque our meat, exhaust to breathe-in as we travel down the asphalt through the cement and plastic wasteland on an adventure.

[nastassjaleenowll]

Also, many landowners may not be aware of the health and environmental costs associated with drilling until after the damage is done. Drilling companies would be out of business due to lack of drilling land if they informed landholders about the potential hazards associated with their practices.

[nastassjaleenowll]

Also, folks who live nearby the drilling get their water from aquifers, springs, or creeks; when those water sources are contaminated, their lives are threatened. To drill through an aquifer into the rock below poses an immediate and longterm threat to the groundwater and aquifer systems not only in the immediate area, but also down stream and for future generations.

[nastassjaleenowll]

To respond to the first two comments:

How are you so sure that folks who work with natural gas and oil don't get sick? Their children definately get effected by the dust and solvents brought home on their parents clothes. Benzene causes leukemia and other devastating effects, and children are more succeptible than adults. Oftentimes, the physiological reactions to drilling related toxins do not develop immediately.

[donkroberts]

First, those folks bought the surface or sold the minerals after they owned it and knew what they were doing. Second, if it is so deadly how do men and women live and work for up to fifty years in it 6, 7 days a week, 51 to 52 weeks a year? Third, are you going to "Obama" the mineral owner who bought in good faith? All commies, fascists, and socialist need to move to Europe where your ideas and lack of liberty are admired and appreciated. We can Adam Smith our way out of this mess.

[terrestaylor]

I understand not wanting the rig right next to your house,but if it is so unhealthy to these people,why are the guys that work on the rigs some from30+ years not effected,hmmmm

[tuwalets]

this needs to be exposed on a national level. we live in a pristine part of new mexico and, fortunately, so far have been able to keep the wolves away, in part because of the economic downturn and community involvement.

[peterlz]

*that surface owners face with split estates.

[peterlz]

Deb Anderson has done a great job of revealing the untold nightmare that surface owners with split estates. Kudos!