Last night I listened to Terry Gross' Fresh Air. Her show featured Josh Fox, who filmed the documentery Gasland about the effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. The film will be shown on HBO on 21 June 2010. You can see video clips at the Fresh Air site.
Info on Fox and his documentary:
A natural gas mining company sent Josh Fox a letter offering him $100,000 in exchange for the rights to drill on his land. Instead of saying yes, Fox made a documentary called Gasland about the unexpected results of natural gas drilling -- and why he believes there is continued cause for concern.
Here is Fox's interview.
Gross also interviewed reporter Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica, who says that BP's internal reports show a disregard for safety.
Read the entire story by Lustgarten and Ryan Knutson.
"We don't even know if there's gas here. It's going to be a fire hydrant in the middle of a field — very little impact to your land. You won't hardly know we're here." -- what a gas company told landowner Josh Fox
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