GasLand - Fracking y La Extraccion de Gas Natural


Un día, el director de cine estadounidense Josh Fox recibió una carta en la que una compañía energética le ofrecía arrendar parte de un terreno de su propiedad en el que se encontraba un importante yacimiento de gas natural, que la compañía en cuestión quería perforar y explotar.

 

Inseguro acerca de la decisión que debía tomar, Fox inició un viaje a través de 24 estados de Estados Unidos para averiguar las consecuencias de la explotación de gas natural.

 

Desde Pensilvania hasta Utah, de un extremo al otro de Estados Unidos, Fox fue descubriendo que en aquellas zonas en las que el gas natural es explotado el los habitantes no podían encender un mechero cerca del grifo sin que el agua corriente se prendiese en fuego debido a la contaminación por gas.

 

De ese viaje nació GasLand.

 

 

 

 

 




 

 

 


GasLand - Fracking and Natural Gas Extraction


 It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well - rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property.

 

The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas reservoir dubbed the Saudi Arabia of natural gas.

 

Halliburton (...again! - think... 'Dick Cheney') developed a way to get the gas out of the ground - a hydraulic drilling process called fracking - and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

  • But what comes out of the ground with that natural gas?

  • How does it affect our air and drinking water?

GASLAND is a powerful personal documentary that confronts these questions with spirit, strength, and a sense of humor.

 

When filmmaker Josh Fox receives his cash offer in the mail, he travels across 32 states to meet other rural residents on the front lines of fracking.

  • He discovers toxic streams, ruined aquifers, dying livestock, brutal illnesses, and kitchen sinks that burst into flame.

  • He learns that all water is connected and perhaps some things are more valuable than money.
 

 

 

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