Gasland

In 2008 Josh Fox received an offer from a gas company, which wanted to lease his family’s land in Milanville, Pennsylvania. Following his nose, he took off an investigative road trip across America, which took him deep into the dark heart of America’s fossil industry – an industry he says is behaving “like a desperate crack addict.”

Gasland reveals some very ugly facts about what is called “gas fracking”, and the almost entirely unregulated business of natural gas extraction in America. It’s an industry described in the film as “messy as a teenager’s bedroom.” But Gasland is also an entertaining and very personal odyssey of discovery, which hinges on Fox’s childhood in an idyllic forest.

This is a must see movie – check out the trailer – in selected metropolitan cinema’s around Australia from 18 November 2010 – see Gasland: Gassing the Frack Out of Us for more details and cinema locations.