Fwd: Award-winning doc GASLAND screens at Concordia Thursday

[Cameron Stiff]

FORWARD WIDELY!

WHAT: Screening of GASLAND - With director Q&A 

WHEN: THURSDAY, November 18, 2010, 7PM
WHERE: Room H-110, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
COST: By donation
INFO: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/node/1860

This special Quebec Premiere Screening is co-presented by RIDM, and is co-sponsored by Climate Justice Montreal and the Council of Canadians - Montreal.

SHORT SYNOPSIS: The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. 

But is fracking safe?

When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.

Click this link to view the trailer for the film and read more.

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