World Water Crisis (LIFE)

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Movie: "GASLAND"

SELECTED FOR SUNDANCE

Film will Premiere in U.S. Documentary Competition Category

Jan 21-31, 2010 Exact Showtimes/days TBA

MOVIE CHRONICLES LARGEST US DRILLING BOOM IN HISTORY

Movie Trailer: http://vimeo.com/4731913
7min 38 sec

Below is a screenshot taken from the movie, where someone turns the tap water on, and then the water is ignited.





Movie Summary

The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. A new method of drilling known as “Hydraulic Fracturing”, has opened up new territory in 34 states to extensive drilling, including the Marcellus Shale a vast formation that underlies most of Pennsylvania and New York, including the New York watershed and the Catskills/Poconos.

A CROSS COUNTRY JOURNEY- Water on Fire from Pennsylvania to Colorado…
When filmmaker Josh Fox discovers that Natural Gas drilling is coming to his area—the Catskills/Poconos region of Upstate New York and Pennsylvania, he sets off on a 24 state journey to uncover the deep consequences of the United States’ natural gas drilling boom. What he uncovers is truly shocking—water that can be lit on fire right out of the sink, chronically ill residents of drilling areas from disparate locations in the US all with the same mysterious symptoms, huge pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation well blowouts and huge gas explosions consistently covered up by state and federal regulatory agencies.

Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown, Josh and his banjo encounter EPA whistleblowers, congressmen, world recognized scientists, and some of the most incredibly inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of ordinary Americans fighting against fossil fuel giants for environmental justice.

BACKGROUND
A major upswing in production took place in 2005 when the Congress and the Bush Administration exempted the industry and its new process of drilling, “Hydraulic Fracturing” from the Safe Drinking Water Act and many of our primary environmental protection laws. While the PR campaign for the Natural Gas industry promotes its product as “clean burning” it hides the fact that the new form of drilling, pioneered by Halliburton, is incredibly harmful to our environment and threatens to permanently contaminate a huge amount of the country’s water supply, create drastic air pollution conditions, and despoil huge areas. Despite overwhelming evidence of contamination, mismanagement and corruption, the general public remains unaware of the extreme effect the drilling may have on their lives.
FEATURING:

Josh Fox, Dr. Theo Colborn, EPA Whistleblower Weston Wilson, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Al Appleton, (Former NYC DEP Commissioner), Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, Lisa Bracken, Colorado Resident, Dr. Al Armendariz, EPA Administrator for Region 6, Wilma Subra, MacArthur Genius Award recipient in the field of Water/Soil contamination, John Fenton, Wyoming Rancher, Shirley McNall, New Mexico Resident, Rick Roles, Colorado Resident, James Gennaro, NYC Council Environmental Board Chair, and Residents from Dimock, PA, Booneville, AR, Dallas/Ft. Worth and more.
Source: http://waterunderattack.com/



Additional information and websites:

http://www.homegrown.org/video/gasland-trailer

The DEC Fracks NYC & Josh Fox of Water Under Attack's Responds

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Commentary from funmaxus: Shocking video trailer. Would like to have additional information on the problems described.