GAS RUSH

Small town. Big money.

Under the hardscrabble farmland of rural Pennsylvania and New York State lies an enormous natural gas deposit known as the Marcellus Shale. This film explores what happens to a small town when rich energy companies pay impoverished landowners $5,500 an acre for drilling rights, with royalty contracts that could turn them into millionaires. Sudden wealth upsets the social and political balance of communities, while a controversial drilling process known as hyrdofracking drives toxic chemicals deep into the earth, polluting water supplies. Local politicians who are also landowners find themselves torn between the prospect of sudden wealth and their duty to protect the environment.


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WINTER 2010



Worldview Pictures

20 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION

Worldview Pictures

20 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION






SUMMER 2010