Maybe we needn’t pay attention. After all, we’re only made out of 60% of water ourselves. What with the caffeine, Co2 and high-fructose corn syrup, we’ll probably be just fine…
About Gasland:
The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? Part vérité travelogue, part exposé, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, Gasland is a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination in the new land that is threatening to take over America.
Days before Gasland opens at the IFC center, in the midst of nation-wide community screenings and on a relentless crusade to support the East Coast moratoriums, boyishly handsome and seriously bespectacled, the very busy Josh Fox sat down with us for a drink of water.
(At least that was the plan. Instead we caught up with Josh by phone as a tow truck rescued him from both car and phone battery failure in the middle of some woodsy nowhere near Syracuse. On the last leg of his nation-wide series of screenings that ended on September 11th with a sold-out show at Solar One’s pier on the East River in NYC, Josh literally couldn’t get off the phone… We could say this issue is blowing up big, but that wouldn’t be entirely in good taste.)
VP: This film literally started in your backyard. How did it come about?
Josh Fox: One day I received a letter in the mail, it was from a Natural Gas company. They told me that my parents’ house in Pennsylvania was on top of a formation called the Marcellus shale. If I leased it to them to extract gas, I would receive a signing bonus of nearly a 100,000 dollars.
GASLAND IN CENTRAIL PARK TONIGHT!!!
For tix or info:
The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, 64th Street and Fifth Avenue
Reception to follow.
R.S.V.P. required. Call 212.360.1324,
This is an amazing documentary and so important for everyone to watch. we have to protect our water and our land!
thanks for running this story.
thank you gloria for getting off the couch – and to the public parlor!!
I live in Pittsburgh. Before the media got hold of the story, back in early August, we knew we were being monitored by Pennsylvania’s Homeland Security. I am proud beyond words to say that not one of the dear people who’ve stood with me (at countless community meetings and protests, etc.) backed down. Sure, several expressed a bit of trepidation, but they kept getting up off the couch & going to make their voices heard.
We’re planning a Marcellus protest on November 3 in Pittsburgh, everyone’s invited, more info, go here: marcellusprotest.org
Thank you Josh for getting us up off the couch.
Josh Fox will be on the Keith Olbermann show on Monday night talking about how Homeland Security was spying on gas drilling activsts at GASLAND screenings and giving their names to pro-drilling organizations.