Truthland: Natural Gas Drilling

Gasland is a documentary about a man who is offered money to sell his land for natural gas drilling companies and finds out that people are having problems where natural gas drilling companies are in place. In his journey, he finds out that people are having problems with their water supply, sometimes even far as to be enough to burn. After taking samples from the water, he finds out that it contains toxic chemicals. A proof came out when several fishes, birds and rabbits were found dead around the polluted water.

After the pollution, the companies were confronted by the environmental agencies and they listed chemicals that are used in the drilling process but still refused to list them under the clean water act. The companies said that they

She goes out to find the actual facts about fracking and the impact on the environment. As the movie goes on, the experts say that the chemicals used in the fracking process don’t go up to the surface, that natural gas poses no threat to the environment-it actually prevents damages caused from strip mining and other methods to get coal- and that Josh Fox misrepresented the oil drilling process, including the fact that it was impossible to frack into an underground water zone. The woman’s voice while she said “experts” and phrases like “I might as go to the best” and “I know which believe it rather than believing some New York reporter who makes movies for a living.” Her voice and the so called “Experts” responses reeks of funding from gas companies. How shameful claiming that she is just a school teacher looking for answers for her kids and assuring herself of the water she is using is safe. Several people claimed that they had no problems with the gas companies drilling and some say that their water was contaminated with methane when there is no drilling involved. To make it more believable, one person lighted his sink when there was no drilling around and a person blew the sturdy construction off from the whole and it came out intact. In the movie, Lisa Jackson, the head of the EPA says that fracking has not caused any problems that people say it did and it is clean but it requires smart regulation and responsible companies. To make matters worse, the movie showed reports of improper