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CG80Jun 25, 2010Submitter
I saw GASLAND the other night on HBO and it is an eye opening documentary. Faucets literally catch on fire from the gas and chemicals in the tap water.
This is a must see!
Here is a link to the website:
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/
spacem00seJun 25, 2010
torrent plz.
novenatorJun 25, 2010
google is your friend my friend http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=ocx&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&&sa=X&ei=YTElTJXmL4T68Ab0yd3KDw&ved=0CCIQBSgA&q=gasland+movie+torrent&spell=1
spacem00seJun 25, 2010
Yeah I tried that last week when I saw the author on the daily show. I guess I just had to wait.
avernessJun 26, 2010
Goggle isn't much help with torrents, except to help herd you towards malware sites. None of those links led to valid torrents.
Closed AccountJun 26, 2010
Everyone should follow the link and send an email to their state representative.
rixar13Jul 4, 2010
Yes, I too saw it last night and all citizens need to see this and stand up against these corporate criminals.. A Must See....
hetmanJun 25, 2010
What is the Halliburton Loophole?
In 2005, the Bush/ Cheney Energy Bill exempted natural gas drilling from the Safe Drinking Water Act. It exempts companies from disclosing the chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing. Essentially, the provision took the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) off the job. It is now commonly referred to as the Halliburton Loophole.
What fluids are used in the fracking process?
For each frack, 80-300 tons of chemicals may be used. Presently, the natural gas industry does not have to disclose the chemicals used, but scientists have identified volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene.
Well that is just disturbing.
xandraxJun 26, 2010
Don't know about the US, but in Australia fracking fluids are pumped back up after fraccing and disposed of. However since the fluid is about 99% water and sand, there are experiments being done to see if we can just spray them over a paddock instead.
I'd definitely dispute the "80-300 tons of chemicals" used for each frack. Firstly it's not needed and secondly producing and transporting that amount of chemical would negate the profit from the well. If you call water and sand "chemicals" then I guess there might be that much used...
As for VOCs, you're probably breathing them in right now if you're in a building with a photocopier.
The scare campaign being run by farmers is interesting, given that:
1. farmers have been raping the land for centuries, and now they're concerned for the environment?
2. they're taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the gas companies (and losing almost no productive land), then spreading misinformation in order to leech even more money
3. they've been drawing the aquifers down for a lot, lot longer than gas companies!
lormendiJun 26, 2010
I know about chemical runoff from farming and whatnot, but I've never heard of someones f**king spigot catching fire because of an acre of corn.
xandraxJun 26, 2010
Fracking fluids don't pollute the aquifer. They're pumped back up after use. They're also not toxic.
Maybe you're getting confused with methane (also non-toxic by the way), which is already in the aquifer and comes up with the water, no matter how or why you're drilling. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
eraptorJun 27, 2010
X,
A simple water test is all it takes to determine whether fracking fluids or natural gas drilling pollute the aquifer.
The last thing most Americans will accept from the energy industry these days on faith is their word. While I'm sure there are honest people working in the industry, the same can't be said of energy industry boardrooms or their senior management.
elkbrainsJun 26, 2010
80-300 tons of chemicals used for each frac is not correct. Unless you count water and sand as "chemicals", like XandraX said earlier.
Reposting something I posted below since a lot of people don't understand why frac fluids aren't disclosed:
Service companies like Halliburton or Schlumberger don't want to disclose the chemical make up of their fluids for the same reasons Coke-a-Cola doesn't want to disclose their "secret ingredient"; it's a trade secret. When frac'ing a well you use very special gels which have to perform in certain ways. Both of those service companies take great pride in their gels and both spend LOTS of money on research and testing to create better gels and to prove that their fluids are better than their competitions. If they were required to provide a list of all the chemicals that they use, then it would force those service companies to show their competition what their recipe is.
They aren't hiding the list of what they pump into the ground because they think they will get in trouble for it, they are hiding it so they can have an edge on their competition.
Also, I'm not familiar with the drilling laws around the east coast, but in Texas you are required to drill and cement a "surface casing" to protect any water aquifer zones before you are allowed to drill deeper into gas and oil bearing formations. I can't understand how you'd get gas into a water aquifer unless for some reason they don't require you to set surface casing in the areas they were talking about in the video.
My guess would be that they are required to set surface casing to protect water zones, but they are trying to save money by skipping that step and hoping that no one will notice. If that's the case then they need to be audited and punished for breaking the law.
murxJun 28, 2010
You think 80-300 tons are 'high'?
80 tons are just 4 tank-trailer trucks - PEANUTS.
Lets take your 99% water number.
So if it's 99% water the TOTAL of fracking fluids would be around 8.000 to 30.000 tons.
Now, those numbers sound reasonable amounts of extracted GAS don't they? Because - for every TON of gas in liquid form you need ONE ton of liquid to squeeze it out!
Or did you think the gas companies would go around digging for some ten to hundred tons of gas?
Now the 'opposite' approach - fracking uses 3 to 9 million gallons of water on average - that equals 11.000 to 34.000 tons - same ballpark, yes?
So 80 to 300 tons of chemicals IS correct. Now add to this - it might be possible/necessary to 'refrack' that whole well several times - so you get much more chemicals soon.
grimreeperJul 4, 2010
Do you actually know this? Are you a executive at one of these companies?
Not disclosing chemicals used because they lose a competitive edge is what a optimist would think. There is also the possibility the gas industry (or certain companies) are corrupt.
wateryouthJun 26, 2010
At least its only tap water catching on fire, and not chocolate covered pelicans.
moloboloJun 26, 2010
I love me some fluoride in my water!
rixar13Jul 4, 2010
I've been trinkled on via Reganomics and now I'm going to get Fracked via vp cheney... great....
novenatorJun 25, 2010
Even scarier than the river that caught fire in Cleveland all those years ago.
skiingpowder10Jun 26, 2010
I too saw this on HBO , it is incredible and very dangerous how the gas drilling is effecting so many people with cancer and other s**t. Do not live anywhere near these areas.
smemilyJun 26, 2010
ahhh, too late! My husband even worked on natural gas wells until he got laid off.
Oddly despite several thousand wells in my area, I've not heard of any such health effects before this documentary.
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w1cked1Jun 26, 2010
Ifyou wait for god to punish them you'll be waiting a looooooong time. Pacifist response....... somebody else will take care of it.
We need to kill these f**kers because they're killing us.
goldyoshiJun 26, 2010
REVOLT!
kingbinjiJun 26, 2010
being on digg a lot makes me lose more and more faith in the government by the day
spuy767Jun 26, 2010
Yet digg users overwhelmingly seem to want more and more government. Irony.
ardeetJun 26, 2010
kingbinji, I have virtually no faith in the government and being on digg only reinforces my position.
There is still a tiny part of me that wishes it could work. I don't know if this is programming or just vain hope but I'm aware that it still rises occasionally to whisper nothings in my ear.
Fortunately I know that it doesn't work. In fact I'd be surprised if any system based on force and corruption can ever really stand the test of time.
If you want to scratch that anti government itch a bit more than I'd suggest having a listen to Free Talk Live or Dan Carlin (google the sites and iTune the podcasts).Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
perkoffJul 4, 2010
All your faith should be gone by now, I guess you haven't been on the site long. Our government doesn't work for us, unless us is some giant corporation that has the money to buy off (every)corrupt politician.
wateryouthJun 26, 2010
At least its only tap water catching on fire, and not chocolate covered pelicans.
Imagine if they did deepwater natural gas fracking.
scecilioJun 26, 2010
We need an infographic so this information is easier to spread.
inactiveuserJun 26, 2010
Please seed....
blackmesa108Jul 3, 2010
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5658459/GasLand_2010_HDTV_XviD-SYS_%5Beztv%5D
bytemeaholeJun 26, 2010
How many palms were greased to get an exemption like this?
The really sad thing is that with inherently-safe nuclear power generation, this country could be virtually free of it's dependency on foreign oil, but too many American's hear the word "nuclear" and freak out without knowing anything about it. Then new designs use the laws of physics to prevent runaway reactions or breaches, and with some of the breeder designs, it actually produces more fissionable material than it burns, so you have an endless supply of clean, renewable, energy.
jerbakerJun 26, 2010
"with some of the breeder designs, it actually produces more fissionable material than it burns, so you have an endless supply of clean, renewable, energy."
Apparently the new designs also use the laws of physics to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
Closed AccountJun 27, 2010
@jerbaker - upon reflection, I realize that you're right if you look at the first description by OP. Breeding isn't endless; if breeding was endless you'd be creating something from nothing, and there ain't any such thing as a free lunch. Breeding ends when the supply of fertile material to be bred ends. (E.g. there's no more Th-232 or U-238.) However, this will not happen for hundreds of thousands of years even in the most pessimistic scenarios as they're so energy dense - you only need a few hundred kilos a year to power a city - and there's a tremendous amount of both of these substances everywhere.
So, nobody should say endless. Everything has an end. But hundreds of thousands of years away is practically endless for human beings. We'll have fusion by then.
marogerJun 26, 2010
This is about to happen in my backyard. Half of Ulster County, New York falls in the Marcellus Shale formation. Some of the most spectacular geographical land is in that area. Not to mention most of those who live there get their water from wells- it's very rural. Hopefully its proximity to New York City's reservoirs will raise some real shackles and stop this.
xandraxJun 26, 2010
The vast majority of rural water bores aren't sunk into coal seams and therefore aren't affected.
blackmesa108Jul 3, 2010
your such a moron XandraX. go cook some shrimp on the barbie... adults are trying to have a conversation...
co0p3rJun 26, 2010
Dug for his Toyota Camry.
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dontpanic49Jun 26, 2010
Our local paper several months ago ran a story about the environmental impacts of fracking and included water in a bottle that was burning. That was in northern Pennsylvania, and I live just above the border in New York. Now New York is deciding whether to allow fracking in our state. While flammable water is really a shocking thing to see, the gas drilling has created numerous jobs and led to a large boost in the local economy. While I'm not saying it's worth it, it is a difficult situation when the economy is in the shape that it is. So before Digg users that view this situation from afar begin to judge, they should just know that many unemployed workers in the area now make a living due to the gas drilling. Maybe then we can have a real discussion about whether the benefits outweigh the harm.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountJun 26, 2010
Not worth their lives.
selfarchitectJun 26, 2010
STFU! ARE YOU f**kING SERIOUS...
"the gas drilling has created numerous jobs and led to a large boost in the local economy."
YOU DO REALIZE HOW MANY LIVES WILL BE AFFECTED? YOU RATHER DRINK FLAMMABLE WATER AS LONG AS YOUR EMPLOYED, DUMB f**kING FUNNY! YEARS LATER YOU'LL BE UNEMPLOYED AND DYING FROM SIDE AFFECTS!
blatsekJun 26, 2010
I watched this and it's complete sensationalist trash. His deep dark voice in the background is a joke. He doesn't even provide the right information. Yes they have hundreds of chemicals but they only use a few at a time. They don't use all 600 or whatever he said. The natural gas companies are VERY strict with their environmental requirements and he just happens to pick and choose some bad ones. This is one of those completely useless documentaries that helps no one. Ohhh should I stop using natural gas? Sorry, can't. Will this help this world move forward energy wise? Well, no.....Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
blackmesa108Jul 3, 2010
your a teabaggin drill baby drill moron blatsek.
skinturtleJun 26, 2010
EVERYONE JUST STOP!!!!
Guys??....(sigh...)...Keep this up and you're going ruin my comfortable hamburger eatin' lifestyle. Who cares if the water is polluted or the government is tax raping us while being bought and sold by big oil and huge corporations? This hamburger and video game I'm playing is just waaaay too good. You people need to stop all this worrying about your cancer cells and start worrying about what really matters...things like American Idol!! Like HELLO?
/s (tons of it)
thoumadJun 27, 2010
How can anyone take you seriously? You play with hamburgers.
moloboloJun 26, 2010
What about fluoride?
mrassmanJun 26, 2010
to be fair, i was pretty high at the time i replied. it's pretty obvious now that it's sarcasm.