Sundance GasLand documentary exposes fracking, the gas mining process that damages water supplies

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Sundance Breakout Documentary "GasLand" Premieres on HBO. This Disturbing Film Is A Must See.
By Susie Madrak Tuesday Jun 22, 2010 9:00am

"GasLand" is the most important and politically incendiary documentary we've seen since "Sicko". Kudos to HBO for showing this Sundance award winning film; do whatever you can to make sure you (and everyone you know) see it. (You'll never quite get over the shots of officials insisting there's nothing harmful in the drinking water, juxtaposed with a scene of fire coming out of someone's tap water. And of course, officials consistently decline to sample the water they keep insisting is "safe".)

The film focuses on damage to water supplies done by the high-powered natural gas mining process known as "fracking," and the shameless efforts by industry and politicians to cover it up. It's all too resonant with what just happened in the Gulf. (The energy industry has already issued a point by point rebuttal. Fox says he's putting together his own response.)

This story is of special interest to people like me who live in the NY-NJ-PA watershed that supplies clean drinking water to nine million people, because industry is now drilling in the Marcellus Shale in northern PA, thought to be the site of massive gas deposits.

Near the end of the film, Josh Fox interviews John Hanger, PA's secretary of environmental protection, who says look, you're on the other side of a camera, you're not the person who has to sit here and make these hard decisions. And he's right -- we as a nation have some hard choices to make about how we get our energy, and why. What price are we willing to pay?

(In a jarring epilogue, Fox notes that shortly after they spoke, the state's Department of Environmental Protection announced massive layoffs.)

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/sundance-breakout-documentary-gasland

[otohara]

1. Kick/Recommended

the MSM ignores this assault on our water... when we're all poisoned with Methane from fracking, then maybe we'll hear a word or two.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. I saw this last night...

It's a must-watch eye-opener. Seriously frightening!

[lovuian]

5. I saw it too

Great film
this is Bush's legacy and oil companies

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. One scene showed a bunch of execs drinking bottled water

when being interviewed by Congress. They should have each been given a glass of the water they're responsible for tainting.

[mnhtnbb]

3. Watched this last night. Deeply disturbing. Really deeply disturbing.

[Althaia]

4. Fracking? Frakking was Battlestar Galactica's euphemism for the F word.

So it seems quite appropriate that it's also the name of this horrible process.

Given that Methane can be obtained from coal mines and land fills, this is especially bad.

[stuntcat]

7. like how mountaintop removal fycks up the water for the people living near where it's done,

but this affects even more people, and all over the place.