If you're Josh Fox, you refuse the money — then make an award-winning documentary portraying the natural gas industry as an environmental menace that ruins water, air and lives.
Whatever the truth, Fox's film arrives at a fraught time. Between the Gulf oil spill and several recent mishaps involving natural gas extraction , the public is focused on energy — and the increasingly complicated ways we are getting it.
Full Story: New HBO documentary exposes gas drilling hazards (AP)
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Fox presents a frightening scenario in which tens of thousands of drilling rigs take over the landscape, gas companies exploit legal loopholes to inject toxins into the ground and residents living nearby contract severe, unexplained illnesses.Whatever the truth, Fox's film arrives at a fraught time. Between the Gulf oil spill and several recent mishaps involving natural gas extraction , the public is focused on energy — and the increasingly complicated ways we are getting it.
Full Story: New HBO documentary exposes gas drilling hazards (AP)
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