Fracking the System:
Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars

The award-winning documentary, Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Warsis a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado. 

When Trisha Nelson learns about the fracking site going in behind her son’s school, she is in disbelief. She is even more shocked to learn it was moved to her BIPOC community from a predominantly white neighborhood after those parents protested. She joins the fight to stop the well and gets connected to the state-wide movement to push new wells further away from all communities. The conflict erupts in 2018 with a state-wide activists ballot initiative prompted a $50 million response from the oil and gas industry, complete with dirty tricks and sabotage.

She embarks on a journey that exposes the harms of fracking, the lengths to which a government is complicit with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections. 

Learn more about the film at frackingthesystem.com

Community United Church of Christ of Boulder hosted a screening on April 25, 2024 in partnership with First Congregational United Church of Christ, Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration, and GreenFaith Boulder County.

 

Reverend Nicole LeMarche, senior pastor at Community United Church of Christ, opened and closed the event calling us to loving action to protect the planet. It was a beautiful gathering with a full sanctuary of 100 people!

 

Sarah Schulte, First Congregational Church and GreenFaith Boulder County Organizing Committee member, moderated an excellent panel discussion with local activists from the film — Patricia Nelson, Suzanne Spiegel, and Russell Mendell — along with director Brian Hedden, Thomas Weiler from Together Colorado and Micah Parkin from 350CO.

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Fracking the System:
Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars

The award-winning documentary, Fracking the System: Colorado’s Oil and Gas Wars is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado.

When Trisha Nelson learns about the fracking site going in behind her son’s school, she is in disbelief. She is even more shocked to learn it was moved to her BIPOC community from a predominantly white neighborhood after those parents protested. She joins the fight to stop the well and gets connected to the state-wide movement to push new wells further away from all communities. The conflict erupts in 2018 with a state-wide activists ballot initiative prompted a $50 million response from the oil and gas industry, complete with dirty tricks and sabotage.

She embarks on a journey that exposes the harms of fracking, the lenghts to which a government is complicit with industrial pollution, and the nefarious tactics the oil and gas industry uses to undermine democratic elections.

Learn more about the film at frackingthesystem.com

Community United Church of Christ of Boulder hosted a screening on April 25, 2024 in partnership with First Congregational United Church of Christ, Naropa University’s Joanna Macy Center for Resilience and Regeneration, and GreenFaith Boulder County.

 

Reverend Nicole LeMarche, senior pastor at Community United Church of Christ, opened and closed the event calling us to loving action to protect the planet. It was a beautiful gathering with a full sanctuary of 100 people!

 

Sarah Schulte, First Congregational Church and GreenFaith Boulder County Organizing Committee member, moderated an excellent panel discussion with local activists from the film — Patricia Nelson, Suzanne Spiegel, and Russell Mendell — along with director Brian Hedden, Thomas Weiler from Together Colorado and Micah Parkin from 350CO.

Winner of the 2024 “Spirit of Activism” Award
Colorado Environmental Film Festival
and
“Environmental Award”
2024 DOCUTAH International Film Festival

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