Gasland Part II Page #2

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 potent greenhouse gas methane.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Josh Fox
Production: HBO Documentary Films
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.7
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
125 min
Website
2,967 Views


pounds of craw fish.

5 or 6 families will get

together, no alcohol,

boil seafood, barbecue whatever,

and we have family time.

You know, without that there,

I mean, yeah,

we could cook other food,

but what about going in the bayou

and going in the pirogue with

the kids, with no video games,

no TV, no nothing?

One on one, some people go

into the mountains behind their house,

and they become one

with nature.

That's the bayou for us.

If it's not there, what's

the point of being here?

We're going to have

a dead fishery, contaminated land,

a bag full of bills,

and a court date when this--

when the federal government

tells BP that their cleanup has been completed.

Why stay?

FOX, VOICE-OVER:

That's when it hit me

how much of this whole culture

was going to have to move.

When I got home

from the Gulf, there was a new surprise neighbor.

The Delaware River

Basin Commission

was debating a new plan

to open up the river basin

to 18,000 gas wells.

The Commission had approved

15 exploratory wells,

and one was about a mile

from my house.

Wait. Stop.

I really want to start

at the middle,

but I got to start

at the beginning.

My parents built our house

in the Upper Delaware

in the same year

I was born, 1972.

It was my father's dream,

and my mom filled it with furniture.

He told my mother, "I want

to build a house of love."

I want to build a house

of love for you."

He ended up building it

out of a $2.00 diagram

out of "Popular Mechanics."

For my father--

a Holocaust survivor born

in Russia, fleeing the Nazis;

and for my mother, the child

of a poor Italian immigrant family from New York City--

on 19.5 acres, just a mile

from the Delaware,

home was in the right place,

one of those place

that maybe you might say,

"Nothing ever happens."

But then, in 2008,

just like most people

in the Upper Delaware,

we got a letter in the mail.

We learned that our land was

on top of a formation

called the Marcellus Shale,

and that the Marcellus Shale

was the "Saudi Arabia"

of natural gas.

We could lease our land

to the natural gas companies.

We would receive a signing bonus

in the neighborhood of $100,000

and untold thousands more

if we only let them...

well...

for the first time,

we heard that word.

You know the word.

It's just like it sounds.

If we only let them "frack us."

Fracking.

Fracking.

Fracking.

Fracking them.

The hydraulic

fracturing, or "fracking"--

fracking--

fracking.

So-called fracking--

fracking--

Fracking--fracking.

The Marcellus.

MAN:
Shale gas.

The shale.

[Male newscaster speaks German]

...das Marcellus Shale.

[Speaks German]

...fracking.

FOX, VOICE-OVER:
The "F" word

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Josh Fox

Josh Fox (born 1972) is an American film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary, Gasland. He is one of the most prominent public opponents of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. He also is the founder and artistic director of a film and theater company in New York City, and has contributed as a journalist to Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast and NowThis. more…

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