Gasland

2010-01-24| 107 min

It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called "fracking"-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

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Josh Fox

Aubrey K. McClendon

Maurice Hinchey

Pat Fernelli

Ron Carter

Jean Carter

Norma Fiorentino

Debbie May

Mike Markham

Marsha Mendenhall

Dave Neslin

Jesse Ellsworth

Amee Ellsworth

Renee McClure

Weston Wilson

Louie Gohmert

Dennis Hastert

Richard Nixon

Pete Seeger

Dick Cheney

Robert Blackcloud

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