Gasland Part II Synopsis: A documentary that declares the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth, and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the … Twelve months ago if someone came to you and started talking about 'fracking' you might wonder what they were on about. Where do these statistics come from? Gasland, a documentary that sometimes seems a horror film, shows fracking’s catastrophic effects, and makes us glimpse what waits human beings and the planet if this practice is not banned forever.
So if they project that there's 100, 250 years of gas in the Marcellus Shale, which by the way was just downgraded by the USGS - US Geological Survey, then they can borrow against that money and they're doing just that.
What we had to put up with, how much we had to suffer through all this, you know.
Gasland Feed. His probing documentary 'Gasland' was nominated for an Academy Award. that BP was spraying chemical dispersants, Josh Fox (born 1972) is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary, Gasland.
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Gasland, a documentary that sometimes seems a horror film, shows fracking’s catastrophic effects. For the common good of all, it is necessary to take part in this unequal fight: the threat is serious. I have to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law after the questioning has been conducted and I haven't seen those reports and I haven't seen from those reports that it was the drilling that caused that. In addition to an Oscar® nomination for Best Documentary Feature, "Gasland" won an Emmy® for Best Nonfiction Directing and was nominated for three other Emmys®. And there have;there have been. But from the suburbs of Sydney, to the mountains of the United States, that process is dividing communities like never before.
My husband has 89 micrograms per litre, somewhere round there. Write your screenplay and focus on the story with many helpful features. Today the USA are the world’s largest producer of oil (though there’s little point in it: see the final note in this post). Again, I need to know that there are health complaints and what those specific health complaints are.
REPORTER: I think you mentioned agriculture, there have also been a few reports that cattle can't drink certain water because of contaminated aquifers up in Bradford County. We don't believe them." And the gas industry came out and said, "We don't comply. Josh Fox also lives in Damascus.
He visited private houses and lands belonging to people who had accepted the same offer he had received, and his findings turn out to be horrifying. But doctors have warned that the family's exposure has increased their risk of developing chronic health ailments in the future.
It's called the Marcellus Shale, a sedentary rock formation that stretches from here in the Catskills - through Pennsylvania to west Virginia and as far west as Ohio and trapped deep within it - trillions of cubic metres of natural gas. The list is long, and the names are of products who nobody who loves life would like to have inside his or her organism. PROTESTER: People got sick, their water supplies got damaged, and it's horrible, and what's worse is that the DEP in Pennsylvania is not even standing up for the people, they're actually siding with the industry and it's frightening and unfortunately because of all of the exemptions in our national laws there's really no one looking after the people. We truly appreciate your support. And this is what happened, and this is a warning to Australia, because what's happening is that you let these guys in, they end up becoming more powerful than the government that seeks to regulate them. https://www.scripts.com/script/gasland_part_ii_8806. 4 Nov. 2020.
Fox knew the controversy on fracking, and that this device had been practised in his country for some years, and wanted to investigate into the phenomenon. As you can see, we've got the pipe on here is to vent the gas out of it so we don't have it come into the house - it's not a pretty sight is it? As a result of his activism, Fox was awarded the 2010 Lennon Ono Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono. American fracking companies, acting in connivance with States and Federal Governments (first Bush Jr Administration and then Obama Administration), have been providing people with toxic, inflammable water which have caused them chronic diseases. You can't do that with the water system. This toxic water has caused chronic diseases and, in some cases, deaths.
In 2008, a nearby gas well exploded, contaminating a local aquifer with methane - leaving the Sautners and a dozen other families without a permanent water supply. Josh Fox also lives in Damascus. "Gasland Part II" Scripts.com. His probing documentary 'Gasland' was nominated for an Academy Award. The result is that the USA are not a serious competitor for them, and have reduced fracking activity, which doesn’t pay. How could this be happening?". I'm personally not aware that I've received any kind of communication from them to go. JOSH FOX: One day I got a letter in the mail. I started noticing that my hands began to tremble like an 80-year-old woman and when I went to stand from a sitting position, my knees would kind of give out. That's hard to swallow. Over 3,500,000 gallons of water are used when fracking a single well. 3 interactive class activities to energize your online classroom If you want to learn more about fracking, there's a factfile on our website and of course, you can also tell us what you think of the process at sbs.com.au/dateline. Unlike Australia, in the United States, those who own land also own what's beneath that land and with offers by gas companies of up to $10,000.00 an acre plus royalties on any gas - it has divided the community and even families.
Media reports of contaminated wells are widespread, across virtually every county in the state, but Governor Corbett appears to be in his own state of denial.
CRYSTAL STROUD: We asked to make an appointment with the Governor and they wouldn't allow us. JOSH FOX: When the film came out, they attacked it. At the height of the Bush administration, new energy laws were introduced exempting gas companies involved in fracking from revealing either their techniques or the make-up of the potent chemical brews they pumped deep below the Earth's surface. He is a farmer from Wyoming called John Fenton, who denounces the environmental degradation, the pollution of water, the bad condition of animals that drink this water. And the rest is history, right?". CRYSTAL STROUD: I had my blood tested and they found levels of barium at 110 micrograms per litre, and my son had 89 micrograms per litre. TOM CORBETT: That's a very broad question, so it's very hard to answer a question that - I'll go back in the courtroom - a leading question.
Downplaying the potential human health risks associated with fracking - Governor Corbett also appears reluctant to investigate it further.
After doing the rounds of doctors unable to diagnose her condition, a blood test confirmed the cause.
Fenton refuses to leave his land, that was the land of his parents and forefathers and that he wanted to transmit to his children. Fox was the only present.
Popular music accompanying the picture is a call to activism and commitment, in the best American struggle for civil rights tradition.
One day of May 2008 Josh Fox received in his countryside home, close to Delaware river, in the border of New York State and Pennsylvania, a letter signed by a gas company offering him a fortune (100.000 $) in exchange for giving permission to drill his property. Big American energy companies’ next-to-last device to enrich themselves at the expense of the planet’s and its inhabitants’ health is to drill the Earth and make “non-conventional” holes in order to extract natural gas and oil from the subsoil, an industrial process called hydraulic fracturing or horizontal drilling, best known as “fracking”. Several independent chemical analysis shown in the documentary detected many of the toxic chemical products added to fracking water. Governor Corbett says there's simply no evidence that gas drilling poses a substantive risk to human health. Millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are then pumped at extreme pressures into the rock, which fractures and opens, allowing the gas to escape. That's essentially how we've corrected the financial problem. YALDA HAKIM: And the fracking controversy continues here as well.
Every day, when I woke up, I just cried. Some days I would wake up and feel like, "This is a nightmare. The only sign of respect and pity shown by companies and Governments are some compensations in the form of water filters (absolutely inadequate to eliminate damaging products) and the previously mentioned economic offers in exchange for allowing drillings and extractions, in contracts containing a clause of confidentiality: affected people promise not to talk about what happens in their proprieties in return for a sum of money. When you have reports, thousands of reports of water contamination across America, thousands, and growing every day - every county in Pennsylvania and there are, you know, 30 counties in Pennsylvania. Note: Although the USA are the world’s largest producer of oil, the non-conventional extraction means employed in this country are much more expensive than the techniques employed in countries such Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, which don’t need to spend so much money in obtaining their conventional oil, so they can sell it much cheaper. In Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Texas, and other States (up to 24) where fracking is widespread, he found people affected by serious health problems (neurological, digestive, circulation disorders) caused by fracking pollution in groundwater and surface water, air and soil. CRAIG SAUTNER: I want them to come here and see what we're going through, how we're living. BARBARA ARINDELL, ACTIVIST: Now we've gotten reports from people in Washington, Greene & Fayette County, which is down in this lower corner of Pennsylvania, about herds of cattle which have been affected by gas drilling waste and the cattle end up being sold into the food supply. Josh Fox says his motivation in making 'Gasland' was to counter the tremendous power and influence of the Gas Industry.
They're taking out billions of dollars in loans against these gas leases where they haven't even drilled.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's State Capital and the seat of its staunch Republican Governor, Tom Corbett. JOSH FOX: I'd like to find someone at Haliburton, so if you'd please ring me back. Fracking has allowed gas and oil American companies to reach big reserves of natural gas in the undersoil, and through this finding the United States were able for a while to become an energetic power and get over one of its many capitalist crisis.
Drawing of extraction of hydrocarbons through hydraulic fracturing.
According to prospectors, Fox’s land is above the huge Marcellus Deposit, which has been called “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas”. I said, "I just want to speak to the Governor. In the beginning of the second term of Bush Jr., the disastrous vice president Dick Cheney (CEO in Halliburton and the architect of, among other things, Irak’s invasion and of thousands of deaths, as well as, in the long run, the ISIS) made the legal amendments necessary for the gas companies to be exempt from the Clean Water Act passed in the beginning of the 70s, which protected potable water as a common good.