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Onshore Drilling Disasters Waiting to Happen: An Interview With ‘Gasland’ Director Josh Fox | The Nation

Theater and film director Josh Fox’s documentary Gasland traces the eastward march of shale drilling — a decade of blasting from the Rockies to Pennsylvania, now pressing into New York. At 37, Fox brings the eye of an experimental artist to a straightforward but urgent subject, blending social message with cinematic clarity. The result is less abstraction than confrontation: a film that helped turn fracking into a household word.

Source: The Nation (2010) Read More

DEC Fracks NYC & Josh Fox of Water Under Attack’s Responds

Filmmaker Josh Fox of WaterUnderAttack.Com shows America how to speak truth to power, and leads us in the required revolution. “I know this is a farce, ” he tells DEC at the public hearing they are required to do before shoving this crap down our throats. “You didn’t listen to us before and you probably won’t listen to us again. But we are willing to engage in civil disobedience.”

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Gasland | NOW on PBS

When filmmaker Josh Fox lit his tap water on fire, the image ricocheted across the country. Gasland followed families living above new shale wells — bubbling faucets, tanker trucks, neighbors divided. Industry leaders rejected the film’s claims, but the footage stuck. The documentary transformed a regional drilling story into a national debate about water, power, and what happens when energy extraction moves into backyards.

Source: NOW on PBS (2010) Read More

The Costs of Natural Gas, Including Flaming Water

A critical examination of Josh Fox’s documentary Gasland, exploring fracking’s environmental and health impacts through vivid imagery and testimony from scientists and affected residents. The review weighs Fox’s emotional force against questions of investigative rigor, situating the film within the broader debate over regulation and watershed protection. Josh Fox’s documentary exposes hydraulic fracturing as a process that injects chemical-laced water deep underground, resulting in contamination so severe that tap water can ignite. Through personal stories and scientific testimony, the film frames fracking as an urgent public health and environmental crisis.

Source: The New York Times (2010) Read More

Gasland Trailer 2010

Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize – Best US Documentary Feature – Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010. Nominated for 2011 Academy Award – Best Documentary Feature.

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Gasland: Drilling Isn’t Safe

The advocacy site DrillingIsntSafe.org argues that hydraulic fracturing poses documented risks of drinking water contamination, air pollution, and chemical exposure, citing the 2010 documentary Gasland by Josh Fox as a catalyst for national awareness. The site critiques Energy in Depth—funded by the American Petroleum Institute—for attempting to counter the film’s claims, framing the public debate over fracking as a clash between industry public relations efforts and citizen-driven environmental accountability.

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Shale gas in the United States – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A high-level snapshot of how shale gas moved from experimental technique to dominant source of U.S. natural gas production. It traces the arc: horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, major basins (Barnett, Marcellus, Haynesville), and the policy fights that followed. Useful as a fast orientation tool — a place to collect names, dates, and terms — before you dive into the messier record of spills, exemptions, and enforcement.

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Energy in Depth

Energy in Depth continued to advocate for hydraulic fracturing through media outreach and rapid-response commentary, positioning itself as a counterweight to environmental criticism. In the shale era, narrative strategy became as organized as drilling logistics.

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Energy in Depth – SourceWatch

Energy in Depth, an industry-backed initiative, promoted hydraulic fracturing as economically and environmentally responsible. Watchdog groups such as SourceWatch have examined the project’s funding and messaging, framing it as part of a coordinated public-relations strategy within the shale debate.

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Sustainable Otsego

In upstate New York, Sustainable Otsego organized residents concerned about proposed drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The group hosted forums, tracked leases, and pressed local officials to consider long-term environmental impacts. As rural counties weighed lease bonuses against watershed protection, Sustainable Otsego insisted sustainability required more than short-term revenue.

Source: Sustainable Otsego (2013) Read More

America’s Natural Gas Alliance

The American Natural Gas Alliance responds with a polished PR rebuttal, arguing that Gasland distorts facts and fuels fear. While claiming to champion factual debate, the video restricts comments and disables ratings, intensifying questions about transparency in industry messaging.

Source: America's Natural Gas Alliance (2011) Read More

Marcellus Shale Protest

On November 3, 2010, more than 500 demonstrators gathered in Pittsburgh to protest the Developing Unconventional Gas (DUG) East Conference, where industry leaders—including keynote speaker Karl Rove—met to discuss shale gas development. Activists from Pennsylvania and neighboring states marched to the David Lawrence Convention Center calling for a moratorium on drilling and raising concerns about health, water safety, and environmental impacts linked to Marcellus Shale gas extraction. MarcellusProtest.org, a project of the Center for Coalfield Justice, served as an information hub for organizing, events, and regional activism across shale-impacted communities.

Source: Marcellus Shale Protest | No Frackng Way (2010) Read More