Fracked Off - USA

High energy costs force world to consider fracking

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Energy resources may be running out, but activists are determined to resist the extraction of natural gas through 'fracking'. We explore why fracking has exploded onto the scene and is so contentious.

The Marcellus Shale is a sedentary rock formation in America which houses trillions of cubic metres of natural gas. To release this resource, gas companies have adopted hydraulic fracking, a method whereby the rock is split using high pressured chemicals and water. However, "once those chemicals are in the ground they are in there forever" and the contamination that has occured as a result of fracking has precipitated widespread illness. "I started noticing that my hands began to tremble like an 80 year old woman and when I went to stand my knees would just give out". With such repercussions, locals wonder why government officials are so keen to refute the facts and allow fracking to continue. The sad truth is that the tremendous power and influence of the gas industry has left authorities powerless to regulate them. However, some communities are determined to challenge the hegemony of the energy industry: "I'm not going to roll over for the gas company".

A Film By SBS
Distributed By Journeyman Pictures
September 2011

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Fracking
• USA
• Energy
• Oil
• Natural
• Gas
• Resources
• Activists
• Marcellus
• Shale
• Journeyman
• Pictures

[TheChristianRight09]

A point to make the Obama administration has not interfered with fracking,its creating jobs in a jobless economy and wealth.....America sends a billion dollars a day out of the country for foreign oil,the conversion to CNG will be a slow but steady transition....

[TheChristianRight09]

CNG is the future,but company's are always liable for mistakes...

[mzmaj7]

Thanks, @PEPPYY22, I've looked into the Gasland website and his big PDF FAQ does not address the state report that methane was in the groundwater decades before fracking began. Knowingly or unknowingly, he omits it, as this journeyman video does.

But, again, in this vid, he fails to answer the question when confronted with it:

thehopeforamerica(.)com/play(.­)php?id=8243

[PEPPYY22]

@mzmaj7 your a follower of ann rancid, who cares what you think. go to the gasland website and you can see how all points in the film are defended, but you wont.

[PEPPYY22]

you two previous clowns need to try to expand your minds and read up about boom and bust in the energy industry and what it does to communities. but you wont.

[supressorgrid]

Bunch of stupid assfracking environmentalists (emphasis on the mental) want us to live like in North Korea

[mzmaj7]

Apparently methane was in the groundwater well before fracking began and the Gasland director knew it without informing his audience:

thehopeforamerica(.)com/play(.­)php?id=8243

This doesn't make him wrong, but it does raise some suspicion about his documentary and about this one. (NB: I generally like journeymanpictures.)

[amberled]

I wonder how this will affect the Amish!

[amberled]

This is downright evil! In the end Greed will be a contributing factor to why this country is crumbling.

[drrx8]

Watch the doc "Gasland" very informative.