GASLAND Trailer 2010

GASLAND - (2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize - Best US Documentary Feature - Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010.

It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well - rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property. The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas reservoir dubbed the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground—a hydraulic drilling process called fracking—and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

But what comes out of the ground with that natural gas? How does it affect our air and drinking water? GASLAND is a powerful personal documentary that confronts these questions with spirit, strength, and a sense of humor. When filmmaker Josh Fox receives his cash offer in the mail, he travels across 32 states to meet other rural residents on the front lines of fracking. He discovers toxic streams, ruined aquifers, dying livestock, brutal illnesses, and kitchen sinks that burst into flame. He learns that all water is connected and perhaps some things are more valuable than money.

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[512warsa]

This documentary has been discredited and torn to shreds by the scientific community. As someone with an understanding of groundwater geology and an appreciation for good science I can't help but to cringe when I watch this documentary. For the sake of scientific truth and accuracy please stop watching gasland and read some peer-reviewed scientific studies on hydraulic fracturing.

[Ron Barney]

So if you think the fracking is safe, sack up and drink the flaming water. Go on.

[jwka2001]

/watch?v=ZWiva9XkwD4

[bluecode320]

That problem goes back decades before fracking started; the creator of the documentary even admits that. This kind of deceit and alarmism is unhelpful to the environmental movement.

[workingongoals]

Don't need too. I just saw a man cause tap water to explode into flames.

[rzomg]

come on chemicals underground cant be good just think..

[JesuslsMyLordy]

1/10 - try to make it less obvious

[Hooberschmit1]

What. Apparently people who advocate gay rights cant think this documentary is a bunch of bullshit?

[Hooberschmit1]

Yes, just buy into the propaganda a little harder.

[unvergebeneid]

Of course science journalism in Germany is a disaster in and of itself. There's really only the BBC left to watch. Unless it's got anything to do with nuclear energy.

[luluhipe]

were you watching them set their faucets on fire?