DEFENESTRATOR MOVIE NIGHT: GASLAND
Submitted by seanwestwispy on Fri, 2010-07-16 13:58
Time for Another Exciting Defenestrator Film Screening!
GASLAND
A new documentary about natural gas drilling and how it might impact your life
Q&A afterwards the screening with independent researchers and journalists currently covering natural gas extraction in PA.
Thursday, July 29
8 PM
Firehouse Bikes (50th and Baltimore, accessible by the #34 Green Line)
When filmmaker Josh Fox received an unexpected offer of $100,000 for the natural gas drilling rights to his property in the Delaware River Basin, on the border of New York and Pennsylvania, he resisted the urge to accept. Instead, he set off on a cross-country journey to investigate the environmental risks of agreeing to the deal.
Gasland is Fox's urgent, cautionary and sometimes darkly comic look at the largest domestic natural gas drilling campaign in history, which is currently sweeping the country and promising landowners a quick payoff.
However, as Fox discovers, the drilling process, called hydraulic fracturing or fracking, was exempted by the Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act of 2005 from the United States' most basic environmental regulations, including the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Air Act. Across the country, in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Dallas-Ft. Worth, where drilling is slated to take place or is already occurring directly in water-supplying areas nearby, a crisis looms that could affect millions.
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Hello all- I met many of you
Hello all-
I met many of you at the defenestrator's premier of Gasland. Others I have met through working with Pennsylvania from Below.
I am writing to invite you to participate in a planning meeting with the goal of organizing against hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale. Many activists from many groups have an interest in this issue. The process can be devastating to the environment and communities, both locally and downstream. It also impacts local economies, and works against the larger vision of a participatory democracy. If you are interested in having a say in how the land in the Marcellus Shale region is used, you may find an outlet with us.
The plan, for now, is to form a broad network of different activists and groups centered around this particular issue. The goals are to increase awareness of the issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing, and to organize a network to mobilize effectively around it.
The Green Line Powelton has graciously opened their space to us. It is located in Philadelphia on Lancaster Ave, just east of 38th Street. They close to the public at 5 pm.
We are planning on gathering around 5:30 pm this Thursday, August 5. The meeting will officially commence at 6 pm, with time for catching up and snacks beforehand. This is late notice for many of you, but if you can make it, your input will be very valuable in steering this project. For those who cannot, our future meetings will be planned further in advance.
Please forward this invitation to any and all groups/listservs who may be interested.
Hope to see you there,
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