Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Gasland [videorecording] : can you light your water on fire? / an International WOW Company production ; in association with HBO Documentary Films presents ; produced by Trish Adlesic, Josh Fox and Molly Gandour ; written and directed by Josh Fox.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : Docurama Films : Distributed by New Video, 2010.

Description:

1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

In 2009, filmmaker Josh Fox learned his land was on top of the Marcellus Shale, a giant reservoir of natural gas, 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 fracking is actually safe. What he unearthed was a shocking discovery about a practice that is understudied and inadequately regulated, and raced to find answers about fracking before it was too late.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Fox, Josh, 1972- -- Interviews.

Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects.

Natural gas -- Prospecting -- United States.

Natural gas -- Prospecting -- Environmental aspects -- United States.

Natural gas -- Prospecting -- Health aspects -- United States.

Natural gas -- Prospecting -- Accidents -- United States.

Independent filmmakers -- United States -- Interviews.

Documentary films.

Marcellus Shale.