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[font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Hello,[/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]My name is Joshua Pribanic, I'm the Editor-in-Chief for PublicHerald.org. Last year I left my hometown of Ohio to investigate Fracking in Pennsylvania and found Triple Divide, a hydrologic landscape responsible for carrying clean water to millions of Americans. Like my native waters of Lake Erie, Triple Divide is a marvel of Appalachia who's virgin headwaters are protected by a state regulatory framework; at least that's what I thought. [/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]In a documentary of our 18 month investigation Public Herald uncovers how the 'strongest state regulations in the country' deal with Hydraulic Fracturing. Here's a look at where we begin: [/size][/font][url="https://vimeo.com/50229298"]https://vimeo.com/50229298[/url] — any feedback would be great! [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Thanks for taking the time to learn more about Triple Divide. Please stay in touch with us on[url="http://tripledividefilm.org/#3e9/custom_plain"]http://tripledividef...e9/custom_plain[/url] — or follow our work at [url="http://www.facebook.com/publicherald"]http://www.facebook.com/publicherald[/url][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Respectfully, [/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3]Joshua B. Pribanic [/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][i]Other info: [/i][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif]Feature length documentary shot on GH2 driftwood hack (88mbs), transcoded w/ 5DtoRGB, edited in FCP, and color graded w/ CC3way:[/font][/color][/size][/font] [font=arial, sans-serif][size=3][color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif]Triple Divide » A Synopsis » As one of only four triple continental divides on the North American continent, everything is downstream for Triple Divide. From this peak, rain from a single storm can end up on three separate sides of the continent: the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, the Chesapeake Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico.[/font][/color][/size][/font] [color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif][size=3]Triple Divide headwaters feeds the largest area of Exceptional Value (EV), specially regulated water bodies in Pennsylvania - it also drains part of the state’s largest stand of publicly-owned forest - the last great wilderness.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif][size=3]Today, these Wilds of Pennsylvania are being divided in many ways by shale gas industrialization.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif][size=3]This film is the story of Public Herald’s first investigations into the inevitable, negative impacts from shale gas industrial development and how they are handled by the state, specifically the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif][size=3]PH's 18 month investigation discovered recurring impacts: contaminated water, air, and land; intimidation and harassment; loss of property, investments, and standard of living; weak and under enforced state regulations; community disruption; destruction of the public trust; illness; fragmentation of Pennsylvania's last stands of core forest; and lack of protection over basic human rights.[/size][/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=lucida grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', tahoma, sans-serif][size=3]Triple Divide tells a cautionary tale about the consequences of shale gas industrial development alongside a deficit of accountability. Though the stages of development for shale gas will one day end, taking many boom and bust jobs with it, contaminated groundwater aquifers, environmental damage, and injured stories will remain in the absence of strictly enforced state regulations.[/size][/font][/color]