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.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Gasland
• sundance 2010
• special jury prize winner
• josh fox
• Halliburton
• natural gas
• drilling
• hydraulic fracturing
• fracking
• Cannes 2010
• documentary
• toxic water
• energy

[TheGavinkenna]

So, what I learned from this video : to get your way...just mention terrorism....and terrorism.

[videogamelover124]

@jsmith2899 Yes. Us Canadians run around with AK-47s and shoot those damn capitalist pigs.

[AnimalsRightToDance]

@randomstables ok, i found it by putting the name of the river and the word petition in google. but it only accepted people from the states so i lied

[randomstables]

@randomstables this post won't let me type in a url directly so (no spaces) h t t p: // w w w. change.org/petitions/stop-natu­ral-gas-development-in-the-sus­quehanna-river-basin

[randomstables]

@AnimalsRightToDance try again - this reply won't let me type in a url directly so it's no spaces h t t p: / / w w w.change.org/petitions/stop-na­tural-gas-development-in-the-s­usquehanna-river-basin

[AnimalsRightToDance]

@randomstables i put the website but the petition didn't appear, is it correct?

[bobgrantsbus]

Fascinating documentary that shows big business and government going hand in hand and ruining people lives and country.

[randomstables]

France and Bulgaria - the only two countries to BAN fracking. Hats off to them!!! Please sign the petition to ban it in PA. See below: 20 signatures in two days. It's gaining momentum. Be a part of the success story!!!

change.org/petitions/stop-natu­ral-gas-development-in-the-sus­quehanna-river-basin

[randomstables]

Please sign this petition and help save my family farm from contaminated drinking water. It takes 15 seconds. Please!

change.org/petitions/stop-natu­ral-gas-development-in-the-sus­quehanna-river-basin

[Sinsemilla4u]

@jimeast2 While the methane part is true, I dare you to come to PA and drink some of our grey smelly tap water. There is a definite cause here, believe me.

[Sinsemilla4u]

@JohanKH It's not oil flows, for one. We are talking about natural gas drilling. The chemicals coming back up are the same ones they are pumping into the ground. Nothing yet says it can be done safely enough. That is what upsets me. They jumped into this w/o knowing the harm it could do (and has done). Please don't try to lecture me. I work with the local communities here to try and stop this. I have had my water contaminated. I know the dangers of it, first hand.

[Sinsemilla4u]

@JohanKH Well, that is an obvious given. And I personally do my best to not waste our natural resources. But it's a fact of life right now that they are needed. No way of getting around that...especially if you live in an area that rains more than not, and is dependent on heat.