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2) Fracknation
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Examines the controversy behind hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking."
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"La querencia de la tierra, the love of your place, of your land, of the landscape that has contributed to who you are as a person. Rooted Lands witnesses the predominantly Hispanic rural villages of Mora and San Miguel counties in new Mexico (labeled as among the poorest communities in the United States) stand up and speak out against one of the world's most powerful industries. Faced with the threat of natural gas development as mineral leases are...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
In this explosive follow-up to his Oscar-nominated film Gasland, filmmaker Josh Fox uses his trademark dark humor to take a deeper, broader look at the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas and oil, now occurring on a global level (in 32 countries worldwide).
6) Gasland
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas that stretches across huge stretches of the northeast United States, and that he would be paid to lease his land for natural gas extraction. Fox documented his cross-country trek to find out if the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is actually safe. What he unearthed was a discovery about a practice that is understudied...
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