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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,
but what about going in the bayou
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
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.
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
I want to build a house
of love for you."
out of a $2.00 diagram
out of "Popular Mechanics."
For my father--
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
"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.
to the natural gas companies.
We would receive a signing bonus
in the neighborhood of $100,000
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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