How many here have seen 'GASLAND' ... DVD ... ???

[defendandprotect]

http://www.amazon.com/Gasland-Josh-Fox/dp/B0042EJD8A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1297099435&sr=8-1

Months ago, my son was encouraging me to watch this DVD which I just caught up

with the last week.

Thouht I actually knew what it was all about -- but had no idea how far they had pushed this!!

Frightening --

My library had the DVD --

PLEASE DU'ers -- catch up with it if you can -- watch it and report!!

[randr]

1. Great documentary all American's should watch

I met with Josh Stone, the producer, when he toured Colorado. He is a genuine man with a dog in the fight, not just out to bash the gas drillers as the industry would like us to believe.
Here is a link to his movie on line along with lists of many more important films.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gasland/

[defendandprotect]

4. Thank you, "randr" -- Watch the GASLAND DVD free -- here . . .

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gasland/

[Warren Stupidity]

2. it was so appalling I could hardly get through it.

what a nightmare.

[wysimdnwyg]

3. +1

The film itself is well done and engrossing, but the subject matter is thoroughly disturbing. One example, they actually pump diesel fuel into the ground to help force the gas out. Seriously? Are they really too stupid to see that this is a terrible idea, or are they just so damned greedy they don't care? I think we know the answer to that.

[Agony]

5. If you live over a shale play, and you probably do... or will. educate yourself now.

For additional perspectives:

1)Split Estate - available from bullfrog films http://www.splitestate.com/

This compelling Emmy Award winning documentary shows the dirty side of hydraulic fracturing and natural gas, an energy source the industry touts as a clean alternative to fossil fuels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96t_rHvQTkM <---a preview


2) All Fracked Up - http://www.allfrackedup.com/

From the "Filmmakers"
Jodi and I are not filmmakers. We are concerned citizens who are frightened that the natural beauty of NY and the pristine lakes and pure well waters could be irreversibly ruined by the process of hydro-fracking. Sadly, PA is beginning to allow hydro-fracking. As a result, they have had gaswell blowout in Penfield (if the Gulf blowout wasn't bad enough) and ruined water wells and property/home/farm values (banks require a good well in order to issue a mortgage)--just google Dimock PA + fracking.
We were jolted into harsh reality this January when a predatory gas corporation picked our beautiful bucolic town along Keuka Lake to inject aprox. 3/4 billion gallons of toxic brine into an abandoned gas well in Pulteney. The toxic brine was a result of the earth regurgitating back high pressure toxic fluids used in hydro-fracking operations in PA. They were going to inject the imported toxic brine under tremendous pressure into an abandoned gas well in Pulteney, only a 1/2 mile from pristine, pure Keuka Lake. A massive grass roots movement occurred on Super Bowl Sunday at our firehall with almost 500 people showing up on a cold frigid winter day. They said "no, we won't accept your toxic brine disposal well." The gas company rescinded their application. Hooray for Pulteney and Keuka Lake! THE MORAL OF THE STORY: The people always win when they show up in numbers and demand their rights as citizens of this great American experiment-DEMOCRACY.
So, Jodi and I resumed our old life of building ourselves an off-grid homestead and multi-vendor Pulteney Highlands Farm/Flea Market on Gallagher Road in Pulteney. We the people won! No deep injection well in our town, yet if hydro-fracking is allowed in NY it could easily destroy our well, our farm, our home value, Keuka Lake, and the wine and tourism industry. We took our money (almost $10,000) for building materials that we had set aside to build our multi-vendor farm market and with the help of my sister, Lorelei, we decided to make our first documentary to alert the residents of our beautiful state that hydro-fracking is an extreme technology used to get at extreme energy with potentially extreme consequences.
We hope you enjoy the movie and learn from it and MOST OF ALL GET ACTIVE IN THE RESISTANCE!!!

Sincerely Yours, Jeff + Jodi

3) the well financed industry perspective: http://www.energyindepth.org/

4) Real People on the ground: http://marcellusprotest.org/

5) the wonderful, smiley, happy, green people of the American Clean Skies Foundation http://www.cleanskies.org/about.html and their awesome documentary about the People of Shale Country! "http://www.shalecountry.com/content/about-shale-country

6) last but not least Chesapeake Energy themselves http://www.chk.com/Pages/default.aspx

Sorry if that seems overwhelming, it is, when the Marcellus Shale is underfoot and you are in the path of landscape scale industrial gas production. A well for every 80 acres.

Cheers,
Agony

[Agony]

6. To put this into another real world scale...

The last statement in my post above "A well for every 80 acres." can also perhaps better be described this way...

If you were to be incorporated into a horizontal hydrofracking gas development you would never be more than 3700 ft from 4 drill pads each with 8 wells on them. This is because wells are drilled radiating outwards from a central drill pad with each fracked well underlying approx 80 surface acres. One drill pad for every 640 acres. This may vary somewhat based on the underlying geology but describes the general idea. If 60% of the land in your area is leased to a gas company then the gas under your property can be extracted even if you do not agree to sign a lease.

[Agony]

7. here is a USGS map of U.S. shale plays

[jp11]

8. What I found truly frightening is the PR for natural gas claiming it is safe

clean and = jobs making it sound as if you oppose it you hate america and want people to be umemployed. There apparently isn't any middle ground for safer ways to get the gas or just moving to other forms of clean energy that don't require us to pump toxic chemicals in the ground to get the crap.

Since I first saw it air I recalled seeing commercials for natural gas and how it was all 'american and clean' now all I can see is the lies.

[Agony]

9. and very well financed, predictably.

I included links to some of that slick PR crap in my post above because it is essential to be aware of it.