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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Gasland" Director Josh Fox Arrested at Congressional Hearing on Natural Gas Fracking
Fracking is "inherently contaminating"
"40% of wells have integrity issues"
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/2/gasland_director_josh_fox_arrested_at
The Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox was handcuffed and arrested Wednesday as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the controversial natural gas drilling technique known as fracking, which the Environmental Protection Agency recently reported caused water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming. Fox directed the award-winning film, "Gasland," which documents the impact of fracking on communities across the United States, and is now working on a sequel. Fox says he was arrested after Republicans refused to allow him to film because he did not have the proper credentials. "We wanted to report on what happened [at the hearing]. I was not interested in disrupting that hearing. It was not a protest action," says Fox. "I was simply trying to do my job as a journalist and go in there and show to the American people what was transpiring in that hearing, so that down the line, as we know there will be a lot of challenges mounted to that [Pavillion, Wyoming] EPA reportand frankly, to the people in Pavillion, who have been sticking up for themselves and demanding an investigation into the groundwater contaminationand to make sure that people could view that in a larger forum than usually happens."
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)"GASLAND" = Josh Fox arrested at House Science Committee Hearing
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101710032
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Gasland: A film by Josh Fox
www.gaslandthemovie.com/
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)"Gasland" . NOW on PBS
www.pbs.org/now/shows/613/index.html
Will the boom in natural gas drilling contaminate America's water supply? NOW talks with filmmaker Josh Fox
myrna minx
(22,772 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Or will everyone just allow "sacrifice zones" where no one will be able to live in the future?