how true/accurate is Gasland

I know I'm kinda necroposting this but it's only been a year and I'm interested!

Has anyone seen this film? Is it factual or mainly nonsense? A friend of mine is interested and says he wants to know if it's true that a large majority of Colorado's drinking water is now contaminated and undrinkable. So does anyone know anything about this documtnary?

I know I'm kinda necroposting this but it's only been a year and I'm interested!

Has anyone seen this film? Is it factual or mainly nonsense? A friend of mine is interested and says he wants to know if it's true that a large majority of Colorado's drinking water is now contaminated and undrinkable. So does anyone know anything about this documtnary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1A...layer_embedded

Was wondering if anyone knows how true/accurate this is or not? Documentaries like this can reveal some very important things I know, however they also can present blatant lies and distortions depending on the agenda of the filmmaker.

I figured I would post this in this forum since an issue like this obviously relates to policymaking.

Because an informed public debate on hydraulic fracturing depends on accurate information, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) would like to correct several errors in the film’s portrayal of the Colorado incidents. ...

...Gasland incorrectly attributes several cases of water well contamination in
Colorado to oil and gas development when our investigations determined that the wells in
question contained biogenic methane that is not attributable to such development.

I figured I would post this in this forum since an issue like this obviously relates to policymaking.

Contaminants of concern to drinking water include fracturing fluid chemicals and degradation products and naturally occurring materials in the geologic formation (e.g. metals, radionuclides) that are mobilized and brought to the surface during the hydraulic fracturing process.

Coal seam gas mining can cause cancer and harm unborn children, a group of medical experts have warned.
The six experts, who include a Queensland government epidemiologist, say the state's ban on the use of cancer-causing chemicals collectively known as BTEX in CSG mining doesn't protect the community from health risks.
BTEX chemicals have been used in hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, in the United States and other parts of the world to crack the coal seams and extract the natural gas.
But in a submission to a Senate inquiry into CSG impacts, which is sitting in Queensland this week, the microbiology and disease experts say BTEX exists in the coal seams.

'BTEX chemicals (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene) are frequently found together in petroleum compounds,' the submission says. They are in a class of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds which easily vaporise so people can be exposed through drinking water, bathing or breathing in vapour.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.

I thought there was some kind of civil law prevention of this kind of garbage? For instance, if I 'grabbed my camera' and 'traveled across the country' making up bogus claims about (say) meat w/ mad cow disease or the dangers of air travel I assumed I could be deservedly sued.

But probably most conclusive is Halliburton thinks there's no problem.

Isn't the documentary maker, Josh Fox, being sued by drillers and frackers and Halliburton and the sorts of authoritative governmental agencies that you cited?

Following up on the decision this week by state legislators in New Jersey to approve legislation seeking an outright ban on the responsible deployment of hydraulic fracturing as a means of harvesting clean-burning, job-creating natural gas, Energy In Depth sent a detailed letter to Gov. Chris Christie today highlighting several important facts about the technology, along with an attachment capturing comments and insights from more than a dozen state environmental regulators from both parties testifying to the safety and efficiency of fracturing.

I am issuing the following point-by-point rebuttal of their claims, not because I feel obligated to address what are clearly falsehoods and smear tactics, but to show the depth of the industry’s assault on the truth and to point out their obfuscations, misleading spin on information, and attempts to shut down questions about their practices.

Wow my friend is totally convinced there's a worldwide conspiracy to cover up entire states water supplies being contaminated and they can't drink the water anymore. He tells me it's not his job to show proof this is happening, it's my job to show it's not happening, and he's getting more and more annoying about it. And I really don't have time to learn about a whole subject just to teach him about it.... sigh.

Do you realize that [flouridation|fracking contamination] is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous [communist|big oil-gas] plot we have ever had to face?'"
"I can no longer sit back and allow [communist|big oil-gas] infiltration, [communist|big oil-gas]indoctrination, [communist|big oil-gas] subversion and the international [communist|big oil-gas] conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

Power necro'd! Just finished watching this. Junk or truth?

Power necro'd! Just finished watching this. Junk or truth?

I see the author / filmmaker of Gasland was arrested in a Congressional meeting room. He was apparently trying to set up and film, but couldn't be bothered with getting press credentials and refused to turn his camera off when asked.