USGBC Green Film Series-Gasland-June 6-Five Points Theater-6:30 PM

[CityLife]

The US Green Building Council North Florida Chapter is proud to bring the Academy Award Nominated and Sundance Film Fesitival Winner “GasLand” to 5 Points Theater as the third film in its 2011 Green Carpet Film Series.

Watch Trailer and Buy Tickets: http://www.5pointstheatre.com/movie/gasland/

The goal of the film series is to foster dialogue, awareness, and action on sustainability issues facing North Florida. GasLand is a documentary movie about the effects of hydraulic fracturing or fracking, which is a means of natural gas extraction employed in deep natural gas well drilling. Once a well is drilled, millions of gallons of water, sand and proprietary chemicals are injected, under high pressure, into a well. The pressure fractures the shale and props open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.

The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND.

This film is part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, and part showdown.

Doors Open at 5:30. Cost: $10

[Jaxson]

I know that I promised to attend, but forgot that I am double booked with a work-related engagement.  I must send my regrets.  I highly recommend that those who can attend go and see this film.

[wsansewjs]

The biggest issue with this thread is there is NO date telling when this film will play at 5 Points Theatre.

-Josh

[FayeforCure]

The biggest issue with this thread is there is NO date telling when this film will play at 5 Points Theatre.

-Josh

Tonight at 6:30 PM

[wsansewjs]

The biggest issue with this thread is there is NO date telling when this film will play at 5 Points Theatre.

-Josh

Tonight at 6:30 PM

Haha, thanks! I finally saw the date all snucked into the title of the thread. Oopies Doopies!

-Josh

[FayeforCure]

One of the dangers of fracking discussed in the documentary Gasland:

Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking
By Abrahm Lustgarten
May 9, 2011 
   
Water supplies close to natural gas drilling rigs had dangerous levels of methane, according to a new study. arth

For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.

The peer-reviewed study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, stands to shape the contentious debate over whether drilling is safe and begins to fill an information gap that has made it difficult for lawmakers and the public to understand the risks.

The research was conducted by four scientists at Duke University. They found that levels of flammable methane gas in drinking water wells increased to dangerous levels when those water supplies were close to natural gas wells. They also found that the type of gas detected at high levels in the water was the same type of gas that energy companies were extracting from thousands of feet underground, strongly implying that the gas may be seeping underground through natural or manmade faults and fractures, or coming from cracks in the well structure itself.

http://www.onearth.org/article/scientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking

[Charles Hunter]

Saw it Monday = scary stuff, and the gas industry says it is just coincidence that people's wells become contaminated after fracking starts.

[civil42806]

The Dimock case highlighted in "gasland" has finally gone to trial, not that you can find anything about it in the media.