4 Hydraulic Fracking Films - Gasland - Plus 3 others - Canada 2011 - DVD Iso

4 Hydraulic Fracking Films - Gasland - Plus 3 others - Canada 2011 - DVD Iso

These films can be found individually on OneBigtorrent. I put them together here. Can burn this DVD ISO, and make as many copies as you want.

1) NB Gas - CBC April 2011
2) Burning Water - CBC Oct 2010
3) Gasland - HBO 2010
4) Dr Anthony Ingraffea - Hydraulic Fracking Expert - Talk - 2010

1)
https://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/11215/CBC--Land-And-Sea--NB-Gas--Hydraulic-Fracking-in-New-Brunswick-Canada--20110417

CBC - Land And Sea - NB Gas - Hydraulic Fracking in New Brunswick Canada - 2011-04-17

NB Gas
NB Gas

There could be lots of natural gas in parts of New Brunswick, but it's difficult to retrieve. It lies deep underground in the shale layers. Oil companies want to use a technique called fracking to bring it to the surface. But some people are worried that fracking will harm the environment. And they may be right. We went to Pennsylvania to see the effects of fracking on communities there.

We visit New Brunswick where oil companies are already exploring. Is the province ready? Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island may also have huge shale deposits.



2)
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/burningwater/

Interview with the filmmaker:
http://video.aol.ca/video-detail/burning-water-ctv-news-int-frederic-bohbotmp4/1240734536/?icid=VIDURVHOV03
Burning Water
On Christmas Eve 2005, Fiona Lauridsen and her three children got chemical-like burns after taking showers in their home. Tests showed higher than normal levels of methane gas in their water coming straight from the aquifer, along with the presence of man-made chemicals. Where could this have come from? The Lauridsens think it may have been caused by the natural gas drilling that had begun in the region. Encana, Canada's biggest gas company, had just started drilling the underground coal seams on the Lauridsen farm to extract natural gas. The extraction process to release Coal Bed Methane (CBM) is called Hydraulic Fracturing, or "fracking", a process by which the ground is drilled into, pumped with water sand and chemicals in order to fracture the coal or rock; and then releasing methane gas.

Initially, the Lauridsens welcomed the added income that came to them from the energy company. But when their water went bad, they turned to Alberta Environment which began an investigation. During that time, water was trucked to each house with water problems. The Alberta Research Council (ARC) looked at the data and released a report in January 2008 which stated that the gas in the water was naturally occurring. The presence of chemicals in the water was left unexplained. The Alberta government then blamed the water problems on bad well maintenance on the part of the farmer. Water deliveries stopped three months after the report was released.

The end of water deliveries put Fiona and her family in a dire situation, some of her neighbours left the region, but the Lauridsens were not ready to leave everything they had worked so hard for. They wanted answers and this didn’t make the community happy. Rosebud is a theatre town and the theatre lives off tourism and funding from EnCana. It’s a popular enterprise and their latest hit is a production of “Fiddler on the Roof”. Fiona works part-time in the theatre, but her complaints about bad water cause some friction. The Lauridsens have 900 acres in the valley, but if they don’t have water they’ll have to move. Fiona and husband Peter want to stay, and so she embarks on a journey across Alberta and into B.C. to meet farmers, scientists and politicians in her efforts to extract answers and, at least, an apology for their contaminated water. The film also looks at similar situations in the USA where natural gas exploration causing water contamination led in to charges and convictions of the energy companies involved.

Burning Water was produced by Frederic Bohbot and directed by Cameron Esler & Tadzio Richards for Bunbury Films in association with CBC News Network.



3)

HBO - Gasland (2010)



Information
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. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.

Written, directed and narrated by Josh Fox
Produced by Trish Adlesic
Edited by Matthew Sanchez
1 hour, 43 minutes, English audio, 2010
Winner of 5 international awards

Further Information

Buy it here at the movie home page
Gasland on Wikipedia
IMDB
More about Gasland and fracking on PBS
Original MVG post
HDTV source (x264, 3 Gb)
AVI (XviD, 700 Mb)
Cover, thumbs, NFO

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In Deep Water (Gulf Oil Disaster)
Gulf Oil Spill
Are We Changing Planet Earth




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Release Notes

If you're American, you cannot miss this, an absolute must watch.
Thanks to SYS for the original upload and encode.


4)

Dr. Anthony Ingraffea - Talk on Gas Fracking 2010

Dr. Ingraffea spoke to a sizable crowd of people in Penn Yan Ny on March 2, 2010. Professor Ingraffea from Cornell University is a Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Cornell Fracture Group.
He is knowledgeable and informed about the process known as Hydraulic Fracturing or Hydro-Fracking, and the Marcellus Shale. This is only a small part of the two hour talk he gave March 2, 2010 at the Penn Yan Methodist Church.