I don’t have HBO, so haven’t seen all of this, but here is the trailer to the movie everybody is talking about. It’s certainly powerful stuff. Depressing, but powerful. Where’s Erin Brockovitch when you need her?
Anybody know if the whole thing is available on-line somewhere?
My wife and I recently watched Gasland. We live in Alaska but grew up in Michigan and are planning to move back to Traverse City/Elk Rapids area. Your article is excellent! Are there any groups organized in northern MI to educate the general public? I’d hate to buy property and have it ruined from a neighbors lease deal. All the best – Derek
Derek
Derek – Moved your comment to here where hopefully more people will see it.
I’m not familiar with a single organization working on this, but two to contact would be Natural Resources Defense Council (http://www.nrdc.org/energy/gasdrilling/) and the Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club (They are active in about anything having to do with the environment in the state, http://www.michigan.sierraclub.org)
Good Luck!
Brian
Brian Creek
Not so fast… Other nations, such as Canada, are switching coal plants to natural gas for smog and green house gas reasons. Who loses when that happens? Big Coal, of course. So is Josh Fox really just a joe-plumber everyone’s guy with a camera? Well maybe he is and just got it wrong, or maybe there’s a lot of unsupported outright false propaganda in the film.
http://www.energyindepth.org/2010/06/debunking-gasland
For one thing, the supposed gas contamination at Divide Creek was evaluated by Colorado state agencies, who determined it was NOT gas related. Fawcetts have been flaming for years where there is no gas production. And the list goes on.
I do agree companies should report what they use in the fluid, but Gasland is an unhelpful bit of disinformation. This drilling is going to happen, and it will allow us a much faster abandonment of equally harmful strip mining of coal, including mountain top removal. So before we get all knee jerking in pointing the environmental finger….
better take a good strong look at the gas issue and be sure to CHECK THOSE FACTS. Otherwise you’re wide open to being hijacked by the coal industry, which does not want to see this gas thing take off.
http://www.pagaslease.com, free info for landowners in gas country
MichGasAlert
Canada is switching power plants to Natural Gas because they have enormous reserves of the stuff!
Thanks for referring us to gas industry sites. I’m sure that they tell the unvarnished truth, because you guys are always looking out for the public good, right?
But for my money, I’ll stick with the public view of gas production in the movie, not spin generated by the industry.
JP Savage