You're invited to a special film screening and discussion in your neighborhood about natural gas drilling. Split Estate shows the devastating health and environmental effects of natural gas drilling on communities across the Southwestern United States. The same "hydrofracking" technology that has damaged communities in Colorado and elsewhere is already being used in Pennsylvania to extract gas from the expansive Marcellus Shale formation.

Join the movement to make sure drilling for natural gas does not contaminate Pennsylvania's land and water.

• What: Split Estate
• When: Wednesday, July 21,2010 at 6:30 p.m.
• Where: Central Baptist Church
  
  106 West Lancaster Avenue
  
  Wayne, PA 19087

Learn more about the film at www.splitestate.com Call 215-545-0250 or e-mail Erin Decou to RSVP.

The award-winning documentary Split Estate takes a riveting look at a David vs. Goliath confrontation unfolding in communities throughout the US. The film maps a tragedy in the making as citizens in the path of a new domestic drilling boom struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.

Natural gas is being sold to the American public as the answer to all of our energy woes. It's championed by industry and politicians on both sides of the aisle as "the clean fossil fuel," and "the bridge fuel," as we look to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and our dependence on foreign oil.
In the midst of the hype, Split Estate shows there is no such thing as a "clean" fossil fuel. Nor, is there clean extraction, as citizens on the frontlines of the drilling boom will attest. "Split Estate tells a powerful story about Americans living with the dirty side of oil and gas development in their own backyards," states Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Split Estate premiered in August 2009 at DocuWeeks in New York City and Los Angeles, and had its world television premier in October 2009 on Planet Green, a network of Discovery Communications. Since its national broadcast, the film has been having an impact in communities throughout the U.S., particularly in those challenged by the presence of the industry.

Filmmaker Debra Anderson, a long-time editor for the film and television industry, began to shoot Split
Estate after reading about Laura Amos from Garfield County, Colorado, who developed a rare adrenal tumor after drilling commenced in her neighborhood. Anderson was moved to tell the story of a growing number of people, like Laura, who are experiencing serious health effects associated with drilling practices.

Splite Estate is a presentation of Red Rock Pictures, a production company dedicated to the creation of documentaries that explore deeply felt human stories about the environment, energy and human rights.

This event is organized by ECO, in conjunction with the Mainline Interfaith Green Group and Clean Water Action.