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Gasland
Fox, Josh
http://one.gaslandthemovie.com/homehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cutGpoD3inc Year Published: 2010 Resource Type: Film Cx Number: CX12010 Today, communities in the United States are being more and more affected by natural gas drilling and, specifically, hydraulic fracturing. Abstract: 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. Fox receives a letter in May, 2008, from a natural gas company offering to lease his family's land in Milanville, Pennsylvania for $100,000 to drill for gas. He then set out to see how communities were being affected in the west where a natural gas drilling boom has been underway for the last decade. He spent time with citizens in their homes and on their land as they relayed their stories of natural gas drilling in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Texas, among others. 107 mins. Subject Headings |