Gasland
If you have not seen this documentary by Josh Fox originally broadcast on HBO June 21 please make an effort to do so. Its horrifying, and now of course the natural gas companies are fighting back with something called "Debunking Gasland" but it still does not change the fact that many people are being hurt, land and water supplies poisoned, workers messed up, streams contaminated, etc. Of course the response of the companies is "prove it", meanwhile the fracturing process goes on and the companies are not held accountable. This is mainly thanks to our old friend that fucking Dick Chaney . There is a wealth of information available on line and any number of organizations that are trying to do something about this. Another heartbreaking instance of govt and big business screwing the little guy. Lets get better informed and then meet back here with ideas on how we can make that fucker Dick Chaney feel the pain and also any other thoughts we have on the whole mess.
posted by Junglechina at 6/27/2010 09:57:00 AM
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Yes, it is quite a story, especially when you see the consequences of the oil industry's similar behavior in deep sea drilling.
You can listen to Terry Gross's Fresh Air interview with Fox at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127593937
See the gas industry's debunking effort at:
http://www.jlcny.org/site/index.php/news/latest-news-articles/192-debunking-gasland-the-movie?gclid=CLC9gffJwKICFQO7sgodRHyl6g
have watched half the movie and read some of the propaganda pro & con. yet another depressing subject to add to a long list.
i basically feel the same way i feel about the gulf disaster: we reap what we sow. we want big cars, cheap gas, airline travel to every corner of the globe, vacations in paradise, food from chile, fish from the bottom of the sea, houses at 70 degrees year round no matter if it's 0 or 110 degrees outside.
when people want stuff other people are going to exploit that want so they can get their larger than needed share of the pie.
all of us who use these fossil fuels to support our lifestyles are to blame for these ecological disasters; we are addicted to oil & gas same way a junkie is addicted to smack. and since addiction is a very hard nut to chew i doubt we'll be seeing much positive change in this arena anytime soon.
sad and depressing, i know, but we must remember: we are growing stupider and stupider but because we are all growing stupider at the same rate no one notices.
Yes but tell that to the poor schmuck who can light his faucet on fire or who has to buy water at Wal-mart to put in his 500 gal tank. I know we all share the blame, but some of us are trying harder than others while some don't try at all, and Dick Chaney is still a colossal fuck no matter how you look at it. Thats the one constant that will never change.
those schmucks took the money. we're all schmucks at one time or another; we've all had stuff foisted on us by a wide variety of snake oil salesmen; it's what america is all about. wait'll we all find out cell phones are giving us brain tumors. won't we all look like a bunch of schmucks then. till we take responsibility for our own foibles best to leave the rest of the puzzle unsolved.
that said, marg, i absolutely agree it's a travesty and hopefully govment, at some level, will step in and make sense of this mess.
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