by frog
I just watched “Gasland” and I highly recommend it. It’s a documentary about natural gas drilling and it’s impacts on the people living nearby.
Trailer below. At the end of the trailer a guy ignites the water coming out of his tap!
It’s had good reviews from many people:
Mark Kermode of BBC Radio 5 Live gave it a generally positive review, criticizing its similarity to other recent oil documentaries, yet praising its “extraordinary visual kick”. He said “it is a very interesting story which is made better by the fact that the visuals of it are very poetic, very lyrical.” and felt that its themes and ideas were relevant and well presented.
Robert Koehler of Variety referred to it as “one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years… GasLand may become to the dangers of natural gas drilling what Silent Spring was to DDT.”
Eric Kohn of IndieWire wrote, “GasLand is the paragon of first person activist filmmaking done right… By grounding a massive environmental issue in its personal ramifications, Fox turns GasLand into a remarkably urgent diary of national concerns.”
Stewart Nusbaumer of the Huffington Post wrote “Gasland… just might take you from outrage right into the fire of action.”
The Denton Record Chronicle said “Fox decides that his own backyard in Pennsylvania isn’t his exclusive property… Set to his own banjo music and clever footage, GasLand is both sad and scary… if your soul isn’t moved by the documentary, yours is a heart of shale.”
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Wed, March 2nd, 2011
Tags: fracking, natural gas
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
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“if you weren’t able to do this hydraulic fracturing (fracking), how much more would we be dependent on foreign oil……and terrorism?”
Obviously the only option to protect themselves from economic collapse and terrorism.
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http://thejackalman.blogspot.com/2011/02/about-fracking.html
I hate to burst your bubble, but there’s a major disaster looming on the horizon for New Zealand. It’s called hydraulic fracturing or fracking for short. Haven’t heard of it before you say. Well neither had I, so I decided to find out a little bit more about this somewhat secret drilling technique…
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Obviously, that’s what many US people think. They simply can’t comprehend that natural gas is not oil and that both are finite.
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Remember that in the US mineral rights and surface rights can be sold seperately, which makes buying land interesting.
I have been looking at buying land in upstate NY so I have been watching this closely, a large part of NY state is a no go since you don’t wont to be sitting on top of the shale. At the moment NY has stopped anymore drilling but I expect that to not last.
Also the scumbag NY democrats passed laws meaning that if enough of your neighbours want to allow the natural gas drilling to go ahead you have no choice and have to accept them coming onto your land even if you have the mineral rights.
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Perhaps it takes an insect to remind us of the bigger picture – a friend just sent me this:
http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/archybooks/ants.html
If you’re not familiar with Don Marquis,Archy and Mehitabel is his best-known work, a series of poems purported to have been written by a cockroach (Archy) and an alley-dat (Mehitabel). This is Archie telling his boss (the owner of the typewriter) about what the ants have said to him.
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Janine is right!
It does!
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Well the answer is in alternative and sustainable energy as us greens have said over and over and over and over and over – - – - -
Armen!!!!
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I am not sure “highly toxic” is an appropriate description of hydrochloric acid (HCl). Concentrated HCl is highly corrosive, but loses its potency when diluted. Chlorinated water has HCl in it, and it is the acid part of our stomach contents, so is perfectly natural in that respect. Not like the benzenes and other chemicals they also use…
Trevor.
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Does anyone know if ‘fracking’ is already going on in New Zealand?
Does NZ have any laws to prevent it being done?
I saw GasLand last night and it it terrible how Halliburton and the oil companies get away with it. Aided and abetted by politicians.
This is one of the worst things that could happen in NZ!! It has to be prevented.
I am reminded again of how the dairy industry is plundering our rivers!
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