Sustainable Milton will be screening the 2010 academy award nominee Gasland tonight (3/23) at the Milton Public Library at 6:30. “It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. . . ” see full summary and learn more at IMDB.com.

The Sundance Film Festival describes this dcoumentary as follows:
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called “fracking”-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.