Interesting program on HBO tonight

[Callmecrazy]

It's called "Gasland" and it's about the problems with fracking. A MUST SEE!

[Glassunion]

1. I've seen it. It definately is a must see.

The sad part is that it just scratches at the surface. Here in PA, the amount of crap we deal with this is absurd.

[Callmecrazy]

2. How can anyone not be outraged by this?

Our own leaders allow these companies to be exempt from EPA regulations and to loophole the Clean Water Act to poison people?

[OneMoreDemocrat]

3. Awesome, thank you...

I don't know nearly enough about it and I really have to find time to learn.

[benld74]

4. Glad it is being replayed, it is sobering, BUT

in the small towns this is happening in THEY show up and begin their SELL. Jobs, income, expansion etc. People, some at least buy into it, and when they realize what they did to their town, it is too late. State cant touch THEM, no laws exist really. Towns dont have the funding to stop THEM. And it spreads, out to other states and towns.
First rule in fracking seems to be, DONT ALLOW THEM IN THE 1ST PLACE!!!!

[Callmecrazy]

5. Agreed. But here's the thing...

You own a big piece of land and you tell the drilling company to shove off. "No problem," they say,"We'll just go to your neighbor's and ask them." The neighbor says sure. Now you live next to a fracking site that is still contaminating your groundwater and soil. It's a lose, lose anyway you look at it.

[benld74]

14. Agreed. This entire fracking is the result of Cheney in W's 1st administration.

[CoffeeCat]

11. I saw a PR woman from the gas industry responding to Gasland...

I believe she was on CNN. Her response to people's water catching on fire, when you hold a match
close to the stream of water running from the faucet? Water just does that.

That's their response. It is natural for the tap water that comes out of your faucet to ignite. Her
explanation was that there is always a certain amount of chemicals in the groundwater and yes, your
tap water will ignite on occasion.

Can you believe these people?

They don't even try any more to come up with plausible explanations for their destruction.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. I think it is on Netflix instant also.

[Chakab]

8. Thanks for the heads up about Netlix.

I'm going to check that out when I get a chance.

[davidpdx]

7. I saw it last year and found it informative

I believe Matt Damon's new movie will be discussing fracking as well.

[2naSalit]

12. I believe

that Matt Damon's new flick is about how the gas companies dupe landowners into signing away their mineral rights and water rights... how they play the game. Gasland is about what the duped locals discover when they start getting sick and realize they have been lied to and nobody, especially in Cheney's Wyoming, will do anything about it, or not much if anything.

I plan on watching both, Pinedale Wyo isn't that far from where I live. I've been hearing a lot about it for years and there is a buyout of an allotment in the National Forest near Hoback, north of Pinedale that is about $750K short (or $75K) and the deadline is Dec. 31.

We shouldn't have to buy back our public lands from gas cos t keep them from raping pristine wildlands... kind of the general public's version of what the Native Americans are going through to keep their sacred lands from being messed up by these greedy bastards.

Something to think about every time you use a petroleum product.

[abelenkpe]

9. It is a must see! Nt

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Glad they are re-airing it.

I think it is from 2010. The sink scene should be enough to wake people up to what they are putting into the ground water.

[octoberlib]

13. Thanks for the heads up!

We will be dealing with fracking soon in NC.