The environmentalist/anti fracking point of view shown in the documentary “Gasland” is a very informative‚ and important documentary that people everywhere should watch. The narrator‚ Josh Fox offers several valid and intelligent points about the possible dangers of fracking‚ and the many chemicals used in it. However‚ Fox is a very biased narrator‚ and at several points offers invalid evidence. For example‚ Fox attempts to instill fear in the viewer‚ in his controversial scene‚ detailing the many
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Film Critique The film ‘Gasland’ was made so that we are able to see the real effects of the fracking process on the environment and the complaints of citizens who are living in the area. Josh Fox had the option to lease his land to energy companies in exchange for a large sum of money. The energy industry has claimed that America has some of the largest natural gas reserves and it will be the energy of the future. Rather than simply signing the papers‚ he decided to go out and do his own research
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When watching the documentary "Gasland" by Josh Fox ‚ I have had no prior knowledge of what Fracking truly was. I have to say though as this documentary was in full swing I couldn’t keep my eyes off the screen. As I couldn’t believe after watching this film what fracking was. I thought fracking was insanely harmful to not only animals ‚ humans and the property they both live on as well. It did two very different things when it came to animals and humans. When it comes to the animals they were the
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"Gasland" and "Fracknation" are two documentary films based off hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing as indicated by dictionary.com is the forcing open of fissures in subterranean rocks by introducing liquid at high pressure‚ especially to extract oil or gas. Hydraulic fracturing started as a trial in 1947. It is a technique where a high weight of liquid (more often than not chemicals suspended in water) is infused into a wellbore to make splits in the profound rock arrangements through which
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The movie Gaslands: Part II highlights the many problems with fracking for natural gas in the United States. It starts by showing the support of politicians and President Barack Obama himself. Gradually‚ the movie starts to show the wrongs that the oil companies are committing while fracking. The natural gas is so profitable that the injustice seems like a minor setback in the quest for the end results. Throughout the movie‚ it shows how families are affected‚ and just how spread out these families
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landscape. The clearing of thousands of acres of forests is leading to reduced and fragmented habitats and other potentially life-threatening impacts for wildlife. Animals are starving ‚ on the edge of life or death. Anorexic animals are everywhere near gaslands. While fracking accidents are mostly harming the animals‚ fracking also pollutes the water‚ consequently people are noticing a huge change in water quality. Fracking contaminates the water in a very obvious way. Fracking could
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animals. Hydraulic fracturing is a danger to air‚ water‚ land‚ animals and communities in the United States. Fracking has a mix of over 596 chemicals and is combined with anywhere between one and seven million gallons of fresh water per well (Gasland). You can fracture a well up to 18 times in its life. Therefore‚ each well uses anywhere from 18 million to 126 million gallons of fresh water. Some argue that the use of horizontal drilling has been around for about 40 years. The truth is that
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Katie Schlagenhaft English 105 Laura Moran 2 December 2014 Fracking in Pennsylvania Hydraulic fracturing‚ also known as fracking‚ is damaging our watersheds and for some of us‚ fracking sites are in our own backyards. The Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a few holes in it‚ as you will see in my research. First‚ we need to understand how fracking works. It is a means of extracting natural gas and oil that lies within a shale rock formation thousands of feet below earth’s surface
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being affected by this tragic event‚ and shows how tough getting through a day is becoming without getting some type of sickness. Fracking also affects wildlife and land by contaminating water streams and the soil animals live on. In one scene of “Gasland” Josh Fox went to a ladies house where she had collected dead animals
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society can be illustrated by using a pyramid. People with the possession of real power‚ we find at the very top and narrowest part. At the bottom‚ and widest part‚ we find everything and everyone else. Like the people of Dimock‚ in the documentary Gasland‚ they put their trust and faith into the hands of the controlling minority part‚ thinking that they would act in their best interest. However‚ in many cases just like theirs‚ megalomaniacal members of society will go to any lengths to achieve their
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