A New Generation of Natural Gas Drilling Is Endangering Communities From the Rockies to New York

Theater and film director Josh Fox's documentary Gasland explores the new generation of natural gas drilling, which for a decade has been blasting its way east across the country, tapping shale formations from the Rockies to Pennsylvania, and is now expanding in New York. Fox is only 37, but he is a veteran explorer of complex themes from militarism to war to globalization and torture who skillfully blends artistry and social message. Gasland is more straightforward than Fox's earlier experimental mixes of theater, dance, music and film, but no less striking. Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance, where it premiered in January, Gasland has been causing a stir wherever it has gone since...
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This recently released film looks to be essential viewing, the current information available about the environmental repercussions of "Fracking" as an industrial extraction method leave little to be desired. As mentioned in the article, the secrecy over ingredients used in the process, the involvement of habitual offender,"Short-Cut" Halliburton(already under a cloud for the BP Gulf Disaster), in the industry can only maximise concern. Yet another example of industry failing to look at all the equations before putting its big foot in the pond. And yes, this is the water supply that is being poisoned by industry for money, let's hope they can chop all that money up and hopefully liquify enough for a drink in the future. If this doesn't rank as Managerment Stupidity, I certainly don't know what does, and the sooner these knuckleheads are held accountable the better.....beeden