THE FILTH
The wells they left behind.
[Lede — TK. Frame Long Knife as an environmental justice story as much as a true crime story. Open with the scale of the abandonment: how many wells, how long they've been leaking, what they're leaking into the soil and water.]
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Abandoned Wells
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Years Leaking
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Square Miles of Osage County
[TK — the environmental justice case. Who is responsible, who's on the hook for cleanup, and who has been left to live with the contamination.]
[TK — what the film documents firsthand: the wells, the groundwater, the people living next door to abandoned infrastructure.]