Natural Gas development has come to Southern Africa. This project uncovers how the oil and gas industry is quietly invading one of the most pristine places on the planet. Reserves and national wildlife parks are not safe from these developments, which threaten the existence of Africa's last remaining traditional people and wildlife.
In this film we bring the voices of the scientists, experts and people opposing unabated oil and gas development in the USA to Southern Africa so that the region's natural wealth may be protected for generations to come by the best scientific data available.
Deep in the Kalahari desert our team filmed secret hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations across the migration routes of Africa's largest single elephant population. 44,000 elephants pass between Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe and Chobe National Park in Botswana. The migration route is a tenuous and delicate string of sweet-water pans in the dry desert. We have evidence and undercover interviews of newly fracked gas wells already endangering these ancient elephant routes.
The Karoo Shale Basin extends across the Karoo desert in South Africa - a delicate ecosystem home to a myriad of endemic and endangered plant species. While exploration
has started in Botswana, South Africa still has a narrow window of opportunity to prevent potentially serious harm to its environment.
This report brings the hard science that has emerged over years of experience with the impact gas on America's arid west and presents unseen evidence gathered from the Arctic to the Savannas of Africa.
The High Cost of Cheap Gas
Feature Documentary Film Release
Produced By Mira Dutschke and Jeffrey Barbee, Associate Producer Charles Moore
Link to website: http://allianceearth.org/the-high-cost-of-cheap-gas-fracking-in-the-karoo
An Alliance Earth Production
WHERE and WHEN:
The Lions River Club, Dargle
19 November 2015, 6:30 PM
RSVP to Pam Haynes at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 083 456 9202
COST minimum donation per person R50: R25 film, R25 soup & roll
Press and members of the public welcome.
Presented by Jeffrey Barbee, Producer.