Documentary Shows Water That Burns, Toxic Effects Of Natural Gas Drilling (VIDEO)

MILANVILLE, Pa. (AP)-- What do you do when a gas company offers nearly $100,000 for the right to drill on your land?

If you're Josh Fox, you refuse the money - then make an award-winning documentary portraying the natural gas industry as an environmental menace that ruins water, air and lives.

In "Gasland," premiering Monday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO, Fox presents a frightening scenario in which tens of thousands of drilling rigs take over the landscape, gas companies exploit legal loopholes to inject toxins into the ground and residents living nearby contract severe, unexplained illnesses.

This isn't some dystopian nightmare, Fox says, but the harsh reality in communities from Texas to Colorado to Pennsylvania. "People are feeling completely upended," the 37-year-old filmmaker said in an interview at his woodland home near the Pennsylvania-New York border, where gas companies have been leasing thousands of acres of pristine watershed land in anticipation of a drilling boom.

Will the boom in natural gas drilling contaminate America's water supply?

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Comment by amdarvon on November 2, 2010 at 7:11am
I used to work in the gas industry (endless tubing). We used to inject all kinds of things down the gas wells to free up the mud. I remember standing out in the cold sometimes 30-40 degrees below (celsius) standing in the mud that we blew up out of the well and my feet would get hot (right through my boots) from all of the hydrochloric acid and other goodies that would come back out of the well. Needless to say I didn't stick around to find out how long it would take to melt my boots. This is a very nasty industry. P.S. We used to work in the wheat fields of Alberta.
Comment by Lou Cypher on September 23, 2010 at 2:08pm
My Instincts Tell Me that Fracking Fluid is as Equal to
or as Nasty as the Dispersion Surfactants used in the
Gulf. These chemicals sound more like Toxic Waste
that would otherwise be very costly to deal with in a
Logical less harmful manner other than the storage or
proper disposal of dangerous chemicals.
Comment by Lou Cypher on September 23, 2010 at 1:40pm

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