STOLEN LAND: FRACKING'S TRAGIC DIRTY SECRETS

Cinemavixion Review

Emmy-award winning documentary SPLIT ESTATE offers a stark and unflinching look at the complex realities of the oil and natural gas drilling boom. Through its investigation of the Rocky Mountain West and Northeast, the film vividly portrays the unsettling discovery by landowners that mineral rights beneath their property are not their own, and that drilling operations can commence perilously close to their homes with little recourse. The documentary compellingly maps a unfolding tragedy, illustrating the struggles of citizens whose civil liberties, communities, and health are threatened by this development. SPLIT ESTATE doesn't shy away from the "dirty side" of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, challenging the industry's narrative of this energy source as a clean alternative. It serves as a crucial, eye-opening examination of the often-overlooked consequences of the energy revolution.