Imagine going to your tap, turning it on, striking a match and seeing it catch fire!
Now imagine your fresh water well that provided your family clean drinking water for centuries now poisoning you. As you watch Gasland, a documentary by Josh Fox, the feeling of that scenario sinks in and you discover It’s happening all over the united states right now.
We go through our daily routine not really thinking about what’s behind most of our amazing luxuries. Our blind consumption has created an environment where corporations get a free pass to do whatever it takes to make the most money. But what are the long term costs?
Gasland explores the practices used today to bring gas to consumers. The companies (Haliburton & others) do this with cornucopia of toxic chemicals, blended with water, which must be used in fracking.
This documentary is a brilliant, unapologetic piece that documents the blatant disregard of nature, people, and community. It was inspired by circumstances of film marker Josh Fox. When Josh is offered the chance to lease his family’s land to a natural gas company, he starts looking deeper into what’s going on. He discovers that that America has massive reserves of natural gas underground and in order to get to these reserves Haliburton devised an incredibly toxic way (using 596 chemicals!) to extract it. They had the right to do this because Bush-Cheney changed legislation that made Haliburton exempt from environmental protection laws. This law also allows gas drilling in public parkland!
As Fox ventures west, to Colorado, Wyoming and Texas, states riddled with natural gas drill sites, he documents horror story after horror story.
Josh Fox and Gasland bravely takes on the ruthless corporations and shows how they are destroying America for profits.
Gasland provides an important message that should be watch by all. It’s gets our highest recommendation.
It’s time to we took a stand and demanded safer & more ecologically friendly practices for our energy consumption!
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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This is a true documented story.
http://www.wayneindependent.com/newsnow/x1777816213/DEP-puts-Fox-on-notice
Just goes to show you what a hypocrite Fox really is and makes you wonder what the true motives of his film Gasland are. Could it be $$$$$$$ and Hollywood fame are his true motivations for the film because it looks like he could care less about the enviroment.
Do as I say not what I do!!!!
Josh Fox has a real junk yard going on at his PA residence. Including multiple violation notices for several years from the state/town to clean it up.
“YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the acts of burying and/or burning of any of these items is/are violations of state and/or federal clean water, clean air and landfill laws and, as such, these acts are subject to prosecution.”;
But look what happened! Miraculously the house trailer burned.
The car seats and parts and car tires burned! Other plastic and composite boards burned too!
Certified letters were sent and the property was conspicuously posted with the Notice of Violation prominently posted on the tree.
In BOLD print it says you can not burn or bury because it will be “violations of state and/or federal clean water, clean air and landfill laws and, as such, these acts are subject to prosecution.”
But I suppose the Fox’s decided that it was OK for them to violate State and Federal Clean Water Acts. Clean air laws did not apply to their smoke, and landfill laws must be for others.
The burn location with its ashes and debris is just up slope from the Calkins Creek which flows directly into the Delaware River, which according to all statements provides the drinking water for 15-17 million people. As the snow melts and the flooding rains fall I wonder how those who are downstream like drinking Fox toxins in their water?
So this is how Josh Fox protects the river and the community that he purports to love so much. In his not-quite-Oscar award winning film, Gasland, he is cast as the protector of evils that will harm the River and the community. But its only a movie and things don’t have to be true on the Big screen. Movies are for the entertainment value, Right?
His actions along the banks of the Calkins Creek do not show responsible sense of community or environment.
The PA Department of Environmental Protection agrees that Fox’s should not have done this. Just a few days ago they also placed a Notice of Violation on the Fox’s. It says in part:
“..you are in violation of the Solid Waste Management Act (“SWMA”), Act of July 7, 1980, P.L. 380, No. 97, 35 P.S. Sections 6018.101 ct seq., and the rules and regulations promulgated there under as follows:
The Department has received information that you or a representative of yours burned a dilapidated and abandoned single wide trailer at the above mentioned property for disposal purposes.
The burning of waste without a permit is a violation of the Solid Waste Management Act, Act of July 7, 1980, P.L. 380, No. 97,35 P.S. Sections 6018.101 et seq., and the rules and regulations promulgated”;