GasLand

Trailer—GasLand

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Greetings again from the darkness. This is Josh Fox's Oscar nominated documentary on the effects of natural gas drilling known as fracking. The film deserves your attention because it is a frightening look at how huge companies and the government can work in conjunction on projects that clearly put citizens at risk. I realize that last sentence sounds like Chicken Little yelling "conspiracy", but the details of the film will give you pause. Can you light your tap water on fire? If so, chances are good that you are within range of natural gas drilling. Our government somehow agreed to allow this practice to remain exempt from the clean air and clean water laws. If brown water comes out of your faucet, then you already know what I am talking about. Mr. Fox is from Pennsylvannia and that's where the story begins. He is concerned about his neighbors, the environment and our drinking supply. Clearly an enormous amount of chemicals are used in this drilling process. Clearly these chemicals seep into the wetlands and water supply of neighboring areas. Clearly too many people are looking the other way. The only thing not clear? The water near these drilling sites. No mystery why this is allowed. The almighty dollar. It is cheaper for these companies to "pay off" the backwoods citizens than it is to not drill. Not sure how you decide the payoff when your kids are being poisoned and the damage to the water sources continues. The film itself is a bit amateurish and sometimes the camera work is downright awful. But the point here is not to make a beautiful film. It is to educate ... to awaken people on just what is at stake with these dangerous procedures and lack of regulation and safety requirements. The most painful piece was when the EPA executive was interviewed and he said that his agency must be directed by the government to check into allegations made by citizens. They have no authority to move on their own. If this is true, it's just one more instance of a bass-ackwards policy that needs to be reviewed. I encourage everyone to see this. If they aren't drilling in your area currently, it won't be long now.

The mindless zombies supporting this twaddle are going to tell you everyone who debunks this crap is in the pay of someone with an interest in promoting fracking. They SAY you should just research for yourself, but they will then TELL you that anyone who calls them "fools" is just lying. Ask yourself a simple question: Are there not jobs to be had working for environmental organizations? Is there not a tremendous amount of money in the Green Lobby, as well? So don't buy their garbage that they are any more honorable and forthright than their opposition. They have money and jobs on the line, too. They have an AGENDA, just as much as the oil companies. And DO do your own research. Here's one from a site the anti-frackers deprecate as "in the pay of the oil companies"... http://energyindepth.org/Texas/flaming-water-nobody-acknowledge/ Pictures -- yes, PICTURES from BEFORE any of the fracking was started showing that the groundwater there was ALREADY highly flammable... exactly as has been claimed by the companies under attack.

Important documentary and grassroots research. It is certainly an issue I've never heard about before, and this expose is very timely, given pending legislation. I'll never look at the natural gas facilities in my own area the same way--or buy the claims of many people who echo dubious gas industry claims that natural gas has a smaller ecological footprint than alternatives. However, the shaky cam and frenetic editing were annoying and distracting. After a while you almost feel like there a gas leak in your living room. It's worth seeing--but take some dramamine.

"Gasland" is loaded with misinformation about a decades-old, proved-safe technique that has been used over a million times in the USA (with virtually no adverse environmental effects). Gasland is pure propaganda. For a comprehensive exposure of this fact, watch the documentary "FrackNation" by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney. To qualify as a "documentary" a film should at least attempt to honestly present its subject. "Gasland" does exactly the opposite. It's blatantly dishonest. "Gasland" is a crock - a crockumentary.

source: GasLand

The problem with a "docmentary" like this is that the left which unfortunately mostly makes up the environmental movement these days will watch this and assume that it's entirely factual. They want to believe that natural gas companies and corporations in general just want to make money and exploit people and the land. Although this can certainly happen Fracking is a way that companies have figured a way to safely bring natural gas form the earth and help meet our country's growing energy needs. There's no evidence that fracking pollutes the water supply and the head of the EPA- no Conservative- has said this also. The dramatic scene in this movie where the water faucet lights on fire has been proved to be fraudulent. Natural occurring methane gas made this happen, not fracking. Impressionable uninformed people will also watch this movie and assume it's all true. More people watch HBO than AXS TV, where a brand new documentary has just come out debunking this fraud of a movie and making some very positive points in favor of fracking. It's called FrackNation, please watch it get another point of view. Then, make up your own mind. Don't let left wing fascists like Josh Fox make your mind up for you.

*Spoiler/plot- 2010, Rather mad upstate New Yorker that is an ecology fan goes out to make a documentary against the large natural gas companies in the USA. *Special Stars- Josh Fox, Director- Josh Fox *Theme- Never trust big business ever when they are benefiting the citizens or country. *Based on- Michael Moore style of filmmaking and green ecology with global warming myths. *Trivia/location/goofs- Shot entirely on various state locations where the story action takes place. Expose' documentary style. *Emotion- A somewhat forgettable rant film of a well meaning but misguided documentary filmmaker. His overuse of hysterics and commentary in this film showing his obvious bias against commerce, fairness, and contracts makes this film easy to dismiss as 'crack-pot'. But studying the subject of natural gas production in the USA, it's importance, and over regulation; the audience can readily see that the filmmaker is woefully misinformed on his subject matter. The producer also takes some overdone political attacks on the Bush administration to make this film a cliché'. Don't waste your time on this film it's a 'hachet job' by an unknown and uneducated person. It could have been better by miles.

Anyone who watches this should also view "FrackNation", a documentary about fracking and GasLand. Among other things, "FrackNation" has the GasLand creator admitting that water supplies could be lighted on fire long before any fracking occurred. It shows EPA officials telling the "flaming faucet" people that EPA tests show that their water is clean. It shows the "flaming faucet" people unable to provide any evidence whatsoever that their claims are true. "FrackNation" exposes Gasland for what it is: an agenda driven piece of propaganda