If you think the BP blowout is bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. Try Gasland.
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 23:20 The BP blowout at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico looks bad. Really bad. There it is, one massive spew of toxic oil gushing out into the waters that we get our food and recreation from. But, what if you multiplied that by hundreds of thousands of wells? And, scattered them all over the country?
You’d have the most monumental environmental disaster of all time on your hands.
It’s called drilling for natural gas by the use of hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’.
If you haven’t watched the new HBO documentary by filmaker Josh Fox, then you really should, because with a few exceptions you probably live in or very near an area that has been, or is slated for natural gas drilling.
Have you ever seen tap water ignite?
I blogged about ‘Gasland’ on Monday, asking my readers to tune in, but not everybody has HBO. I get it. Times are hard and you have to save where you can. You should go prevail on a friend that has the full cable package.
We watched it again tonight, since we’d missed the first 20 minutes or so on Monday, and then I thought I’d just remind folks. When I googled up ‘Gasland’ though, I got a surprise.
There at the top of the Google search was something called ‘Debunking Gasland’.
Being the curious and intrepid reporter that I am, I took a look. Then a closer look. You know how I am about shady ‘front groups’.
Yup.
