Josh Fox, "Gasland" Creator, on the Hazards of Fracking
Josh Fox is angry. A few years ago, he received a note in the mail saying he could lease his family's land in Pennsylvania for about $100,000 to natural gas companies. Soon, he discovered that some drinking water in a nearby town had been contaminated, and that people around the country with gas operations in their backyards were getting sick and scared, amid a boom in drilling.
So he set off on a cross-country journey to drilling hubs like Wyoming, Colo., and, of course, Texas, home to the Barnett Shale near Fort Worth, "one of the first places ...
Comments (8)
Lynne Margolis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Saw this film. Lived in Pa., now in Texas. I know how valuable mineral rights are to impoverished people. But they don't know what they're signing away till it's too late.
Robbie Cooper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ah, yes, Lynne, the age old Liberal mantra of, "people are too dumb to take care of themselves, and that's why we need more and bigger government to do it for them."
Nice that you play along with the sad stereotype that poor people = stupid people...
Kim Batchelor via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Lynne was not making that assertion.The people aren't stupid; the companies are deceptive.
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Robbie, I am a liberal and I have never used that mantra, could it be your Glenn Beck filter is translating it wrong.
That poor people stereotype must be a conservative thing too because I have never heard it used in any of our liberal socialist secret meetings.
The companies are deceptive and have the resources to decieve. Government is not a baby sitter but combined community resource not unlike a co-op to help us get on the same footing with moneyed corporations.
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Robbie, I am not against oil and gas. I would love to move away from it but it is what makes the world go round.
If you talk to people around these wells or watch these documentaries what you will see is companies coming in and destroying water and air supplies. They are terrible neighbors.
When they drill let's have them do it in a way that has minimum impact on the community and the world as a whole. They just need to be good neighbors, thats all.
Veronica Estrada via Texas Tribune on Facebook
nice comeback after sounding like an ass the first time, Bob Brown.
EyesOfTX
Jeez, Kate, had you taken about 2 minute to do the most rudimentary fact checking, you'd have discovered that pretty much nothing in Mr. Fox's film is an any way, shape or form accurate. For the truth, go to www.energyindepth.com
This is very shoddy reporting.
Bob Brown via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Oh the first comment was me, I don't know what came over me on the second one.