(2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize - Best US Documentary Feature - Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010.
It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well - rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property. The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas 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.
But what comes out of the ground with that natural gas? How does it affect our air and drinking water? GASLAND is a powerful personal documentary that confronts these questions with spirit, strength, and a sense of humor. When filmmaker Josh Fox receives his cash offer in the mail, he travels across 32 states to meet other rural residents on the front lines of fracking. He discovers toxic streams, ruined aquifers, dying livestock, brutal illnesses, and kitchen sinks that burst into flame. He learns that all water is connected and perhaps some things are more valuable than money.
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Scary shit. I'm probably going to have nightmares for the next couple of weeks now.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:43 pm
by dbackjon
THat is why I don't want to watch it...
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:54 pm
by 93henfan
I've seen it all over HBO. I guess I'll have to watch it.
You have to give Halliburton some creativity points for the number of ways they've devised to destroy people, property, and planet. Rape is extremely profitable for them.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:17 pm
by BlueHen86
People need toi stop wanking about this crap. We have planty of water, the world is cover by mostly water. We need gas and oil, a little water contamination is a small price to pay, and well (pun intended) worth it.
Same thing with the Gulf. Drill baby drill, so what if a few fish and birds get oil on them. The gulf is a big place, there are plenty of clean fish and birds.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:20 pm
by CID1990
Kitchen sinks bursting into flame sounds really cool.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:40 pm
by 93henfan
CID1990 wrote:Kitchen sinks bursting into flame sounds really cool.
Go to 2:20 of Jelly's video. It's tremendously cool!
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:43 pm
by CID1990
93henfan wrote:
CID1990 wrote:Kitchen sinks bursting into flame sounds really cool.
Go to 2:20 of Jelly's video. It's tremendously cool!
Here in Vietnam watching online video is like watching earthworms fvck. Takes too long for no real gratification.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:48 pm
by BlueHen86
CID1990 wrote:Kitchen sinks bursting into flame sounds really cool.
I think it's a good thing. You no longer need an oven, and if the fire gets out of hand the water is right there.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:49 pm
by 93henfan
CID1990 wrote:
93henfan wrote:
Go to 2:20 of Jelly's video. It's tremendously cool!
Here in Vietnam watching online video is like watching earthworms fvck. Takes too long for no real gratification.
Basically, a dude puts a Bic lighter up to his running kitchen sink and it goes poof like a 5th grade science experiment.
Here's a screen capture (click to enlarge):
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:52 pm
by CID1990
That's goddamn awesome! I wish I had one of those when I was in high school.
Re: Anyone seen this documentary? -- Gasland
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:02 pm
by BlueHen86
93henfan wrote:
CID1990 wrote:
Here in Vietnam watching online video is like watching earthworms fvck. Takes too long for no real gratification.
Basically, a dude puts a Bic lighter up to his running kitchen sink and it goes poof like a 5th grade science experiment.
Here's a screen capture (click to enlarge):
There has got to be a way to make some kind of hi tech bong out of that.
