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Gasland: New HBO sponsored documentary

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Brief synopsis:

It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a 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

Here's a trailer.


Equally amazing and depressing by the looks of it. I look forward to seeing it.
 
Brief synopsis:
process called "fracking"


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:hmm:
 
They had the director of this on The Daily Show a couple of weeks back – they showed a clip where a guy had got natural gas coming out of his tap which he could actually ignite with a lighter!
 
I have seen this. It's got quite a good 'shock factor', when you see people who can literally set fire to the water coming out of their taps :eek:, however, the director is obviously a first-timer with nairy a clue about holding a camera etc, so the cinematography is bloody awful, but it's very informative, quite scary and another one to file under 'Incredibly Bad Decisions Spurred by Energy Crisis' - essentially what's happening is that Gas companies are 'fracking' (drilling into the Earth and chucking a bunch of undisclosed industrial chemicals in to release lakes of natural gas below) and they are, across many different states, contaminating the water supply. So far, no fracking has been done in the areas of Pennsylvania and upstate New York that provide all of New York City's drinking water.... so far. But it is not at all unlikely that this will be done in the near future, and a potential environmental mega-disaster awaits if this practise continues unabated. Gas company executives need a bullet in their necks.
 
I'm watching this now, about 20 mins in. Fascinating stuff. And utterly, utterly depressing. And, quite frankly, scary. I know that sounds alarmist and whatever, but it is.
 
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