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'Gasland' Director Urges Fracking States to Vote Sanders on Super Tuesday
Josh Fox, the director of the celebrated 2010 documentary Gasland and more recently, How to Let Go of The World (And Love All the Things Climate Can't Change), which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, has a message to voters about environmental dangers, Super Tuesday and Bernie Sanders.
What do these three have in common? Well, there are primaries in five states on Tuesday, March 15: Florida, Missouri, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio. With the exception of Missouri, all of them are fracking states where there are significant anti-fracking movements on the ground.
If you want to stop fracking now, vote for Bernie, Fox said.
"What the clean power plant [that Hillary is in favor of] does is that it facilitates the transiton from coal to gas, not the transition from coal and gas to renewable energy," Fox told MSNBC's Chris Hayes following the Democratic debate in Miami. "Right now, in America we are facing 300 fracked gas power plants," the director added.
What do these three have in common? Well, there are primaries in five states on Tuesday, March 15: Florida, Missouri, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio. With the exception of Missouri, all of them are fracking states where there are significant anti-fracking movements on the ground.
If you want to stop fracking now, vote for Bernie, Fox said.
"What the clean power plant [that Hillary is in favor of] does is that it facilitates the transiton from coal to gas, not the transition from coal and gas to renewable energy," Fox told MSNBC's Chris Hayes following the Democratic debate in Miami. "Right now, in America we are facing 300 fracked gas power plants," the director added.
More: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/gasland-director-urges-fracking-states-vote-sanders-super-tuesday#.VudSlBJIdro.twitter