High Plains FilmsA project of Big Sky Pictures, LLC
“All too often, short-term profits win out over long-term values. Such is the case in POWDER RIVER COUNTRY. This gripping documentary examines the devastating costs of coal bed methane production on otherwise unspoiled land and on the lives of unsuspecting, hard-working Americans.”
Timothy McGettigan, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Colorado State University-Pueblo
“Gripping, personal and socially relevant.”
DVDtalk.com
“Zugel is working here on the model pioneered by High Plains Films' founder Doug Hawes-Davis with an eccentric soundtrack juxtaposed to action shots of drilling rigs and heavy equipment and aerial footage of wastewater ponds and gas development scattershot into what used to be empty rangeland. The power of the High Plains model, and the power here, is the human voice.”
NewWest.net
“Heartbreaking and poignant.”
Steve Fesenmaier, West Virginia Library Commission