And, you know, it's a proposition - I don't know how many people would want to live in the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. But the untold story which we go into in "Gasland," and it's a trip all across the America, is that this form of drilling, onshore, is incredibly problematic and it's inherently contaminating. And it's causing a lot of havoc and a lot of people getting severe environmental damage, health damage, property value damage.Īnd so natural gas is promoting itself as this clean fuel source. But they have been ramming this project through in 34 states. So you know, what - this is, I think, a tough sell for the natural gas industry. They're proposing hundreds of thousands gas wells across New York and Pennsylvania, including in the New York City watershed and the watershed that provides water to southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and other major cities, calling this the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.Īnd what the gas industry has to do is convince people to lease their land -and there's usually cash offer for a signing bonus and a percentage of the gas that they pull out - in order to turn their area into an industrial drilling zone. ![]() And this is causing thousands of contamination incidents, water contamination, air pollution, a health crisis.Īnd what's happening now, and the reason why I got involved with this, is because it's coming east. What you have here is the largest onshore natural gas drilling campaign in domestic history. FOX: Well, the gas industry has been attacking us for over a year, as they've been doing to almost everyone who's reporting on the situation. A group connected to the natural gas industry sent a letter to the Academy that says your picture is so full of unsubstantiated claims and factual errors, they shouldn't even consider it. It's great to be here.ĬONAN: And as you, I'm sure, know better than I, "Gasland" is probably the most controversial of the nominated documentaries. Josh Fox joins us now from NPR West in Culver City. Email us: You can also join the conversation at our website. And now they're coming east.ĬONAN: If you've seen the movie and have questions, give us a call. All of it infused with the 596 chemicals in the fracking fluid. JOSH FOX (Director, "Gasland"): They started out West - New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Wyoming, Oklahoma and in the South - Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama 450,000 wells times 18 times one to seven million gallons, something like 40 trillion gallons of water. In particular, filmmaker Josh Fox focuses on the costs and hazards of a drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. ![]() "Gasland" focuses on natural gas and questions the industry's portrayal of this fuel as clean energy. oil and natural gas producers, charges Fox with alternating "between misstating and outright ignoring basic and verifiable facts."Īnd today we conclude our series on the films nominated for best feature-length documentary at the Oscars. The film has drawn harsh criticism from the oil and gas industry, and Energy In Depth, a coalition of U.S. In 2008, filmmaker Josh Fox received a $100,000 offer to lease his 19 acres in northeastern Pennsylvania for drilling by the booming natural gas industry.įox promptly responded with a decisive "no thanks." Then he set off on a road trip across 24 states to investigate the environmental impact of natural gas drilling on local communities.Īlong the way, Fox met dozens of families who say they have developed health problems after leasing their land for hydraulic fracturing, a type of natural gas drilling also known as "fracking."įox's resulting documentary, Gasland, questions the industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean energy source. In some homes, the tap water was so contaminated that it could be lighted on fire.Ĭourtesy of International WOW Company/HBO Filmmaker Josh Fox visited families across the U.S.
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