GasLand
After an oil company offers him serious money to lease his Pennsylvania land to drill for natural gas deposits using an hydraulic process called fracturing in this educational, disturbing, award-winning, ire-raising, discussion-provoking, 107-minute documentary, filmmaker Josh Fox examines the potential ecological, medical, social, and financial ramifications by traveling to states such as Colorado, Wyoming, and New York to document the shocking, first-hand accounts of people, including Mike Markham and Marsha Mendenhall in Colorado, who are directly affected by drilling on their property and EPA veteran and whistleblower Weston Wilson and discovering horrific, unimaginable ramifications of gas drilling (e.g., animals dying and/or losing their hair, people poisoned from toxins leeching into their groundwater, and the ability to set water coming out of home faucets on fire).
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