"GASLAND" = Josh Fox arrested at House Science Committee Hearing

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Uploaded by RepZoeLofgren on Feb 1, 2012

HBO filmmaker Josh Fox arrested at the February 1, 2012 House Science Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment fracking hearing (Source: House Science Committee Democratic Staff)

DISCUSS: http://www.democraticunderground.com/101441143

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1. The Ed Show

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2. CENK: 16 officers were sent to arrest ‘GasLand’ director Josh Fox on Capitol Hill

http://current.com/shows/the-young-turks/videos/16-officers-were-sent-to-arrest-gasland-director-josh-fox-on-capitol-hill

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3. Democracy Now

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002256882

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 report—and frankly, to the people in Pavillion, who have been sticking up for themselves and demanding an investigation into the groundwater contamination—and to make sure that people could view that in a larger forum than usually happens."

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4. MUST SEE: Gasland Trailer