Gasland

Just watched it.

 

Yes it's a can of worms. Are you offended someone might QUESTION the way you stuff your wallet?

 

OK, so far we're talking about fracking for natural gas. Most of us work in fracking for crude oil. I don't now know all the similarities and differences.

This one is called Truthland, it's an industry rebuttal to Gasland. It's made at a fifth grade level, pretty annoying that way, but it's a rebuttal nonetheless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTJaaeiuzSU

For Gasland, if you go to Amazon you can find it and watch it online for $3. One thing about Gasland, it's portrays a lonely, reluctant, homespun crusader. But, it had to have taken a crew to produce that film and you can see many of them in the credits. He didn't fund it with money he had in a shoebox, either. So, the question is, who really is Josh Fox, who were his backers, and what were their actual motives? I don't know that, either. Truthland- funded by the industry and starring a fat, not too bright dairy farming teacher. So, sort it all out (actually, she might be bright, but Truthland really is made for stupid people).

 

I'd like to break down Truthland but I don't have time right now. One ignorant remark, she asks some expert about the chemicals, and he answers something about soap. 'Hey moron, she asked about the chemicals, plural, not one benign chemical off the top of your head' (or, was that just the editing?) Of course, she made a note to ask the question again but I don't think they covered the really nasty stuff they may be pumping down those wells.

Then, there was the goofy stunt putting explosives in the pipe LEAVING AN OPENING FOR THE PRESSURE TO ESCAPE!!! Reminds me of some of the moronic 9/11 debunking (roasting a thin girder of unknown alloy over a pool of jet fuel in a blowing field, etc.) 'Yup, that proves it, duh huh' Now, I do suppose shifting earth formations over a 10,000 foot pipe might generate a little more force than a little C4, or whatever, blowing out that pipe like a shotgun.

Then there was an EPA guy who claimed Fox had a problem with breaking the rocks. Moronic, devilish, call it what you will. Little was made of the seismic issues in Gasland. The issue was what chemicals are they shooting down those holes to live for perpetuity and what risks are we facing with the clean up process? That, and natural gas getting into the ground water.