The film‚ Gasland‚ is ineffective at presenting an adequate argument of how hydraulic fracturing --fracking-- is harmful to the environment or people around it. Gasland is a faux home video --documentary-- by an ‘average’ guy‚ Josh Fox who is living in the woods in pennsylvania‚ that is trying to convince the viewer that fracking is going to be harmful and overall bad in every way to the environment. He goes around and interviews homeowners in an area called Dimock‚ Pennsylvania. Dimock has had
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Gasland Problem Tap water isn’t supposed to catch fire. It does in Dimock. Josh Fox‚ the director of "Gasland‚" chronicles his search to discover what gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale might do to his beloved Delaware River watershed should he and his neighbors sign the leases they received in the mail. That search takes him first to Dimock and then across the United States‚ where he meets people struggling with unexpected consequences of gas drilling in multiple states. He spent time with citizens
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Gasland‚ a documentary produced and directed by Josh Fox‚ focuses on communities in the United States that have been impacted by natural gas drilling. It shows an in-depth look at a method known as fracking which horizontally drills into deep rock in search of the black gold. Josh Fox lives in Pennsylvania and when he was asked to lease his families land out to an oil company so they could drill on his property‚ he refused and decided to take action. Fox traveled all around the country and visited
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In the beginning‚ the narrator Josh finds out a hydro-fracking rig has opened near his house. He is afraid that it will pollute his water source‚ so he starts documenting the effects of hydro-fracking on his neighbor’s waters supplies. He goes on a trip to personally document the effects of hydro-fracking on people’s homes. When he goes out west‚ he discovers the government has turned a blind eye to the drilling process and the harmful effects the chemicals can the water supply. Through his documentary
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Gasland Review In the documentary “Gasland”‚ Josh Fox takes it upon himself to show what it is really like inside the oil and gas industries. Josh also makes visible the cover up that takes place about what’s really going on. This documentary shows the negative effects of hydraulic fracturing‚ otherwise known as fracking. Fracking is a process in which fluids made of water and 596 different chemicals is being blast 8000 feet into the ground‚ it is like a mini earthquake. Each fracking well
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300 19 February 2013 Gasland and the Social Conflict Theory Gasland can be examined using the social conflict theory of socialism. There are three main theories of socialism: structural functional‚ social conflict‚ and symbolic interaction. The reason for social conflict being the best candidate for Gasland is because it shows how much power‚ wealth‚ and prestige the government can hold among the U.S. population. Josh Fox is the main character in the documentary‚ Gasland‚ and he can sell his
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in a continuous debate on the ethics of this procedure. Two prominent documentaries that circulate the media are FrackNation by Phelim McAleer and Gasland by Josh Fox. Each documentary presents its view of pro-fracking and anti-fracking‚ respectively through a series of various logical fallacies. FrackNation efficiently refutes the claims of Gasland through the effective use of logical fallacies. The successful use
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In the documentary Gasland Josh Fox talked about how people’s properties were being invaded by fracking industries which is "hydraulic fracturing" which is drilling into the ground for natural gas as Josh Fox explained in this documentary. All of these people had been suffering with the water portion of it because with the oil drilling there water pipes were mixed in with the oil which there water faucets water came mixed with oil which meant that the water is not drinkable that’s why Fox went into
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Matt Eng Gasland Josh Fox‚ International WOW Company‚ ‚ 2010 Gasland is a documentary written‚ produced and directed by founder and artistic director of international WOW Company‚ Josh Fox. The film won six awards including Special Jury Prize in 2010 Sundace Film Festival and was also nominated for an Academy Awards for best documentary in 2011. The film shows effects of natural gas drilling on water sources and the environment. It also shows the influence of big businesses on legislatures
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In Gasland and Fracknation the volatile issue of fracking is discussed in detail from two very different perspectives. However‚ the issue of how fracking affects inequality rarely arises due to the environmental bent of Gasland and investigative treatment of the issue in Fracknation. There are many social issues caused by the advent of fracking and speed at which the wells are being built across the nation‚ foremost among them is the way fracking is inextricably linked to causing and worsening economic
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