GASLAND
Friday, January 29, 2010
Blog entry by Ambrea Kuhn, The Leonardo's Intern
Every year in Sundance's documentary competition, stand-out movies feature environmental impact topics. The premiere of An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 started this tradition. Some movies show how our environment is changing (Climate Refugees, 2010), and others show us what we can do to change (No Impact Man, 2009).
This year, however, one documentary stood above the rest. GASLAND, about natural gas drilling, got its start when a company offered Director Josh Fox a substantial amount of money to lease his land in Milanville, Penn., for natural gas drilling.
Fox initially planned a 5-minute short that would show how natural gas drilling worked and what kind of impact it would have. However, that small tasked turned into a huge project after he found out that fracking, the process they use to extract natural gas, was contaminating the natural watershed. As Fox traveled around the country he found that in almost every town near drilling, drinking water had been contaminated with...well, too many chemicals to name.
Be sure to check out GASLAND when it is released, or you can try for tickets to the last showing -- 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 30 at the Prospector Square Theatre. For more information on fracking (or hydraulic fracturing), and to support restrictions on this process, visit WaterUnderAttack.com
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Labels: energy, environment, science, sustainability, video
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