[pulkpulldoors]

Self-explanatory.

I hadn't seen this posted anywhere.

"4 Minute Warning" appears in the amazing documentary "Gasland".
It's been on HBO and on the film festival circuit and I normally wouldn't bother mentioning it, but this is a must-see film about an absolutely horrifying problem.

It's about the "Halliburton Loophole" which is legislation that Dick Cheney passed before leaving office, which allows natural gas companies to go around the clean water act and use toxic chemicals to drill for natural gas under shale deposits.

The process is called "fracking" and it's a hydraulic drilling process that fractures rock with the aid of these toxic chemicals (nearly 600 harmful chemicals).

Using these chemicals to break up deep rock allows these chemicals to seep into any and all water wells, deep ground water deposits, streams, estuaries, etc.
This is not even the worst part...as the natural gas breaks up through the rock, that too is unleashed into water supplies.

The film shows a man literally setting the water from his kitchen sink on fire.

There is so much more that the film goes into...

Everyone should see this, through any means neccessary.

It's not just a US problem, this drilling method is being proposed all over Europe as well...it's really frightening.

[bitumen]

jesus fucking christ don't these people have any semblance of a conscience? What the hell do they think they're doing


oh yeah making themselves wealthier.. it's fucking pathetic - their parents should be deeply ashamed

[skylark]

Don't worry yourself into a frenzy, soon there won't be anything left for them to fuck up anymore and we win.



Wait a minute...

[ObservantAndroid]

America has really done a number on its water supply in recent history. Thanks for sharing.

[sfortunato]

ObservantAndroid, on 22 July 2010 - 12:22 AM, said:

America has really done a number on its water supply in recent history. Thanks for sharing.

If people were paying attention, that would be the horrifying part.

Easy enough not to pay attention when the drilling's going on somewhere else, and only a handful of "water" wells start spewing methane.

But water flows downstream, and so will all the shit that gets churned up. Into the Chesapeake, out into Philly and NJ. And then on top of that - stranding however much water a mile below the surface in shale layers.
Wonder where that'll go in however many years time...

Seems totally fine. It's all working as expected. Don't bother with your seatbelt.

[raaainbow]

pulkpulldoors, on 22 July 2010 - 02:12 AM, said:

It's not just a US problem, this drilling method is being proposed all over Europe as well...it's really frightening.

thank you very much for sharing this. the method has recently been discussed in my country (in Europe) that has large shale gas deposits, and has been painted as "a rosy future, a prosperous prospective" and so on. but, of course, NO ONE has mentioned thus far how harmful and unsafe it is. I'm so disgusted.

[OkComputer]

i'll check it out, preachy films piss me off something fierce though.

[Mark Ingram]

OkComputer, on 23 July 2010 - 04:46 PM, said:

i'll check it out, preachy films piss me off something fierce though.

[pulkpulldoors]

OkComputer, on 23 July 2010 - 02:46 PM, said:

i'll check it out, preachy films piss me off something fierce though.

I'll admit that normally these type of docs have a very condescending tone but this one is surprisingly not preachy.

The guy who made it, only did so because he was offered $100,000 by a gas company to drill on his family's land in upstate New York and he wanted to know more about it.

He seems genuinely amazed by what he finds instead of talking down to everyone he meets.

This is not a Michael Moore, "you're stupid and i'm not," type of doc.

[Colorado Android]

I live in the area of Colorado where they are doing the drilling and was appauled at what is in my back yard. The companies are trying to expand into the Roaring Fork valley as we speak about this. Please look up Tompson Divide Coalition http://www.savethomp...lecteds-91.html and sign up if you can. I dont want wells in my back yard.

[tomfool]

interesting film, lots to filter, i like filtering lots, i'm a filter