Split Estate Trailer

www.splitestate.com Split Estate Trailer - 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. 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.

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[Nastassja Noell]

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.

[BradBaldwintheDrumm]

what we do to the earth we do to ourselves

[denise marie]

It's Criminal! 

[71DatsunZ]

None. I just spend a sh*tload of time, money and research on my real estate transactions. "trust but verify"

[Jim Childers]

Well aint you something? Guess you fellows do get a little down the wind pipe slinging those chains and drilling those wells. Hope your still here after 2 years.

[Jim Childers]

What ever your on I don't want none sounds like you been sipping a little oil.

[Jim Childers]

It's almost pathetic what these turkeys will say and do. They own it all include the local majority politicians in every county bought and paid for!

[Jim Childers]

Never happen unless we shut em down!

[Jim Childers]

You got it right it's no longer the American Dream it's the American Nightmare!

[Jim Childers]

What oil company pays your salary?

[Paula L]

Great video! I look forward to seeing the entire movie. This really highlights what is going on in many parts of the country right now. We are a group of Lodi Township and Saline, Michigan residents who have formed a group called No Paxton and are trying to stop oil drilling from ruining our beautiful countryside and polluting the environment. For more information on Michigan oil drilling please visit nopaxton dot com

[swimracer111]

western homesteaders after 1916 can only own the surface land because of an act passed by congress; the Stock-raising Homestead Act of 1916. So, basically if you live in certain states, the government can lease out the soil beneath your feet and start fracking near your home.