Reliving Natural Gas Drilling Horror With “Gasland”
June 22nd, 2010 - 6:33 pm ICT by GDBy Meena Kar
June 22, (THAINDIAN NEWS) On Monday the HBO aired the Sundace Award-winning documentary of Josh Fox named “Gasland” that explores and at the same time questions the mad rush of the corporate giants towards the natural gas drilling all over United States.
If the documentary provided crucial information about the natural gas reserve of the country then on the other hand it also showed the kind of life rural folk are living.
Josh Fox’s documentary “Gasland” was made after the director who had passed his childhood in the Wayne County of Pennsylvania got an offer of $100,000 from a company that wanted a drilling right over the family right to drill the natural gas. It is this lucrative offer that has fooled many rural folks who are now facing the consequences of the drilling process.
Josh Fox shows how the streams have been transformed into puddles and how animals are losing hair by drinking water from the streams. It also shows that there are households whose faucets run drinking water that ignites when held close to a lighter.
The documentary reveals that the rush of the corporate sector towards the natural gas drilling has started after the 2005 Energy Act that has exempt natural gas drilling from the federal law set for safe drinking water.
The expand of the natural gas drilling spans from northeast Pennsylvania to the south Texas and even in the Western coast. He tells the tale of people of 34 states of which many pockets have become the silent victims of the natural gas drilling.
The “Gasland” highlighted another horror that too has thousands of sufferers but remains unnoticed by the authorities.
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