For film nights here are six suggestions. If you need a projector, let me know. Documentary lifting the lid on fracking spin, investigating environmental and health issues associated with fracking in Australia, the US, and Lancashire and UK Methanes plans to drill near drinking water sources in Somerset. youtu.be/cX1bsyDuAfg The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown. filmsforaction.org/watch/gasland_2010/ Gasland Part II follows on three years later, to continue documenting how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most devastating environmental issues rapidly spreading the globe. This sequel further enriches the argument that the gas industry’s portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a lie, where in fact fracked wells inevitably leak over time, and vent exuberantly more potent greenhouse gasses such as methane in cumulative effect, not to mention the continued string of cases of severe water contamination across the United States and even cases as far away as Australia. Gasland Part II follows deeper into these happenings, revealing yet more of an entrenched corporate collusion in the pursuit of exploiting dwindling ‘natural resources’… filmsforaction.org/watch/gasland-part-ii-2013/ Fracking Hell: The Untold Story An original investigative report by Earth Focus and UKs Ecologist Film Unit looks at the risks of natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. From toxic chemicals in drinking water to unregulated interstate dumping of potentially radioactive waste that experts fear can contaminate water supplies in major population centers including New York City, are the health consequences worth the economic gains? filmsforaction.org/watch/fracking_hell_the_untold_story/ Fractured Country: an Unconventional Invasion is a new film from Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia) about the risks to communities from invasive gasfields. This is the full version of the documentary. filmsforaction.org/watch/fractured_country_an_unconventional_invasion/ Shale Game examines whether gas commercials claims that fracking will eliminate our dependence on foreign oil while creating jobs and boosting the economy completely hold water. This film questions whether those opposing frack are against progress? Along with whether the gas industry practices of self-metering and self-reporting of the gas taken from under your feet are picking your pockets clean. This straight-shooting truth-telling film reveals much needed information for those on both sides of the fence searching for common ground. With testimony by esteemed scientists, journalists, former industry insiders, and people living first-hand with fracking, this farm-made educational film will help you to make sense of a very controversial issue. youtu.be/Hdhq6JU5kNw
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:16:16 +0000
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