From day one, it’s been people like you at the heart of this movement. You’ve become the inspiration that keeps us going and the reason GASLAND Part II exists.

But we’re not done yet. Before we begin our tour this summer, and bring GASLAND Part II to communities across the country, we need your help with two things.

1. Can you reach out to five friends and ask them to join us?

2. Fill out this form and let us know who you are. This movement has grown exponentially since we started, and we need to know which organizations and communities are with us.

Gasland inspired the world to take a closer look at the dangers of fracking, but it’s been supporters like you who have kept it at the forefront of the national debate.

In GASLAND Part II, we have undertaken an unflinching, fearless investigation of the toxic influences polluting our democracy. GASLAND Part II delves even deeper into the corrupt and poisonous world of hydraulic fracturing, exposing the forces desperately working to keep us addicted to the shrinking resources of the fossil fuel industries.

Ultimately, GASLAND Part II calls us to action, demanding that We The People do “The most we can do”, and that we command our elected officials to pursue a future we can all live in.

You can answer that call right now.

Ask five friends to join us today. We’ll keep them updated on screenings and ways to get involved.

And if you’ve been involved all along, fill out this form so we know where we stand and how best to support the incredible movement you’ve built.

Love,
Josh and The GASLAND Team

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• aluminum
• copper
• silicon
• lithium
• molybdenum
• zinc
• nickel
• cobalt
• titanium
• boron

In addition, the following volatile organic compounds commonly used in the Fracking process were also found in wells and not reported:

• acetone
• chloroform
• T-butyl alcohol

Don Hopey has been reporting in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the PA DEP has systematically been producing incomplete lab reports on water wells affected by hydraulic fracturing and has been using those tainted reports to refute the claims of those Pennsylvanians whose water has been impacted by drilling operations.

These are VERY serious allegations.  People in PA usually only request water testing by the DEP because they suspect their water has been contaminated. PA Rep. Jesse White is rightly calling for a state and federal investigation. If the PA DEP has been deliberately altering or obstructing test data and telling people their water was safe, then, as Rep. White says,  “anyone who relied on the DEP for the truth about whether their water has been impacted by drilling activities has apparently been intentionally deprived of critical health and safety information by their own government.”

Many throughout PA have waited months for DEP water test results, only to find out that they were mysteriously hung up in Harrisburg. Many have experienced discrepancies between the costly independent water tests they ordered from private labs and “official” test reports from the DEP.  As a result, many have long suspected misconduct or some form of obstruction at work within the DEP.  I’m one of them. But this week’s  revelations are jaw-dropping even for the most jaded conspiracy theorist.  They leave me shocked and outraged.

This egregious behavior represents a naked example of putting corporate profits ahead of public health and safety, even at the cost of poisoning our water and our faith in government.

What a sad contrast with what we’ve seen in the last week as federal, state and municipal governments mobilized an unprecedented and moving response to Hurricane Sandy.  All across the eastern seaboard we are mourning the lives taken by this storm and sending our thoughts to those whose loved ones have been lost. While we reel from its effects, we’re also aggrieved that these extreme weather events, which grow in intensity and destructiveness each year, are only beginning to be acknowledged as effects of climate change. Fracking and other extreme techniques for extracting and increasing our reliance on fossil fuels only stand to make it worse.

Pennsylvania’s citizens have had enough of being exploited by big oil and gas. They deserve an immediate and thorough investigation into this brazen, and what seems to be illegal, conduct of Krancer and Corbett’s DEP.  If the whistleblowers’ allegations and the Post-Gazette’s reporting turn out to be true, we should call for the impeachment and/or recall of the Corbett administration.

Gasland Filmmaker Josh Fox Responds to AP Criticism

NY Breast Cancer Network and Renowned Expert Dr. Sandra Steingraber Support Josh Fox

Josh Fox, NYS Breast Cancer Network, Dr. Sandra Steingraber respond to AP article, “Experts: Some fracking critics use bad science” by Kevin Begos.

As part of a longer response (included below), GASLAND Filmmaker Josh Fox said, “From the outset, the premise of this article was biased. We gave the AP an expert source that supported our reporting. We called the author of the original article in the award-winning Denton Record Chronicle (a paper that has long covered this issue), Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, who stood behind her story and her sources and pointed out that the statistics that the AP reporter had sent to us were incomplete and looked cherry-picked.  Mr. Begos ignored all of these things.”

“It is clear to me, as it was from the first moment, that Kevin Begos was not out to give fracking critics a fair shake or look objectively at the facts. He was deliberately seeking ways to try to discredit the anti-fracking movement and he was willing to twist facts and quotes to serve that purpose while disguising his work as impartial. It is worse than bad journalism, it is highly unethical, dangerous and irresponsible, especially in light of the fact that his article sets out to skewer important science that is being waged for the public good and disregards expert opinion arguing for the precautionary principle when public health is at stake. He ignored all the data in the film about the gas industry, instead focusing on a cancer study by CDC which he insisted was misreported.”

The New York State Breast Cancer Network released this statement in support of Josh Fox:

“The New York State Breast Cancer Network is the only network of community-based, survivor-driven breast cancer organizations in New York.  Our member organizations provide a broad range of support and information services in communities stretching all the way from Buffalo to Long Island and collectively our member organizations reach over 100,000 New York State residents affected by breast cancer each year.”

“The NYS Breast Cancer Network understands personally the danger of incomplete, shortcut reporting that can influence decisions about a serious public health issue.  In his article “Some Fracking Critics Use Bad Science”, Kevin Begos misrepresents existing facts and completely ignores the many still-unanswered questions about the safety of hydrofracking.   He makes a common and, yes, emotional error by putting the burden of proof on the victims of industry rather than requiring that industry actually answer all the questions necessary to prove that hydrofracking is safe.”

NYS Breast Cancer Network contact: Andi Gladstone, Executive Director,  Tel. 607-279-1043, andi@nysbcsen.org

Dr. Sandra Steingraber’s statement is included at the end.

GASLAND Filmmaker Josh Fox’s full statement:

On June 20th  2012, nearly a month ago and interestingly on the same day I released my new short film THE SKY IS PINK, I received a phone call from a Journalist in Pittsburgh named Kevin Begos at AP.  He requested an interview and offered this statement right off the bat, “I am writing a piece about how environmentalists exaggerate.”  I said, “Why would you do that?  Why not write a story about how the gas industry is perpetually lying?”  He said that he had covered both sides’ “exaggerations” before and referred me to a piece he wrote in November of 2010 in which he places quotes of mine (taken out of context)  alongside quotes from Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon and said we were both guilty of hyperbole.  It was exactly the kind of he-said-she-said journalism that I draw attention to in my new short film “The Sky Is Pink.” In it, I explore how the mainstream media often will pit two “experts” against each other in a “debate” and not actually investigate the facts or get to the bottom of the controversy.

Immediately wary of him based on the prior article, and his stated intent for this one, I asked what his focus would be.  He was vague in response.  Having just further bolstered the case that the thousands of incidents of water contamination and flammable water reported in gas drilling areas throughout the nation were in fact caused by the gas industry in my new short THE SKY IS PINK, I asked him if he had seen it.  He hadn’t.  I asked him to take a look and call me back, hoping that the thorough presentation of evidence in the film would dissuade him from writing a story with such a clearly biased premise.

So three weeks later he calls me up and sends me some charts via email challenging reporting from the Denton Record Chronicle on Breast Cancer statistics in Texas.  The chart he sent me is here:

As you can clearly see, the chart (whose origins are unclear) says not to use this data as it is incomplete:

“Veterans Health Administration and military hospital reporting is incomplete for 2008-2009 Texas Cancer Registry (TCR) cancer cases.  Therefore, case counts and incidence rates in 2008-2009 are underestimated and should be interpreted with caution.  [italics added]”

In addition, according to the chart, there was a question only about data in one county, when my claim referred to a cluster of six Counties.  I brought this up with him.  He said, I have several experts on record that say you are simply wrong.  I said, who are they?  He declined to answer.

I went to Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor and a breast cancer expert with a long list of bona fides, to weigh in.  She sent me a full statement to send to Kevin Begos at the AP. Of course, neither of our statements were featured in the article, mine was quoted in a questionable way and hers was neglected altogether.

I was hoping that Kevin Begos would address the fact that the gas industry’s own science shows massive well casing failure.  That Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission reports many gas migration issues in their 2010 groundwater report and PA DEP reports show high rates of gas migration into aquifers near drilling sites in PA.

This AP story has reported on none of this.

But Mr. Begos showed his hand early, by stating the original premise of his story.  His story is short on facts.  The quotes he uses in the story can actually be taken either way.

THE SKY IS PINK calls attention to several health studies that point to serious questions and risks in gas drilling areas and supports those who are calling for further study.  Further study into public health risks is a good thing.  It’s not an exaggeration and it’s not bad science.  Kevin Begos also refused to deal with the main thrust of THE SKY IS PINK which is to point to the enormous failure of the gas industry to stop their wells from leaking into aquifers.  He also misses the point entirely, that the film calls for FURTHER STUDY on the issue.  Which is to say MORE SCIENCE.  One of his own “experts” that he quotes actually says the same thing:  Chandini Portteus, Komen’s vice president of research, adding that they sympathize with people’s fears and concerns, but “what we do know is a little bit, and what we don’t know is a lot” about breast cancer and the environment.  Sounds like a call for more science and more study doesn’t it?

Kevin Begos’ article belongs in the opinion section.  It’s fine for him to have an opinion about whether or not gas drilling causes health problems.  But it is not fine to cherry pick data and present only one side of the story while claiming to be an impartial journalist.  This is not what the “experts” are saying.  In fact one such expert’s full statement is below, saying the opposite.  If anything is on display here in Kevin’s article it is bad journalism, actually awful journalism, deliberately trying to skewer important science that is being waged for the public good.

Sandra Steingraber’s statement, which was sent to Kevin Begos while he was writing his story:

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is a Heinz Award-winning biologist and scholar in residence at Ithaca College.  She served on President Clinton’s National Action Plan on Breast and as science advisor to several breast cancer organizations, including Breast Cancer Action and the California Breast Cancer Research Program. She has testified before the President’s Cancer Panel and is the recipient of the Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund.  Steingraber’s book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, was released in a second edition in 2010.  She is one of the chief editors of the exhaustive 2007 study, Identifying Gaps in Breast Cancer Research: Addressing Disparities and the Roles of the Physical and Social Environment:  http://www.cbcrp.org/sri/reports/identifyinggaps/GAPS_full.pdf

The larger point made in The Sky is Pink that there is something unusual about the longer-term breast cancer incidence patterns in the counties overlying the Barnett Shale where gas drilling is most intense.  These patterns clearly need to be investigated further.

Even if these differences were apparent before gas drilling began, which is also not clear from the data, it does not follow that therefore gas drilling is playing no role in the story of breast cancer in the Barnett.  It just means that there may be multiple factors that one needs to tease apart.

In other words, just because a given area is home to a population that, say, disproportionately smokes more and drinks harder doesn’t mean that an increase in radon exposure will have a trivial effect on the health of everyone who lives there.  It just means that any possible effect will be harder to see in the data because of confounding factors.

Whenever epidemiologists see an unusual pattern of disease incidence in a given area, especially one like breast cancer that has established links to environmental exposure, the next two steps are to ask

1)  are there other diseases with environmental links whose incidence rates are different in this area?

2)  is there biological plausibility for an environmental explanation?

3)  is there anything demographically different about the women who live there that might explain the unusual patterns?  (Ethnicity, reproductive history, breastfeeding rates, access to mammograms)

In the case of breast cancer in the Barnett Shale area, the answers to the first two questions above, although incomplete, seem to be yes.  I don’t have any information to answer the third question.

1) Childhood asthma in Tarrant County is more than double the national average; researchers from Baylor University are now investigating:

http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=98474

2) And we know from the Colorado School of Public Health study that drilling and fracking operations release benzene into air at levels known to elevate cancer risk.  http://www.erierising.com/human-health-risk-assessment-of-air-emissions-from-development-of-unconventional-natural-gas-resources/

We also know from several blue-chip studies that benzene exposure has demonstrable links to breast cancer:

a)  Benzene is specifically highlighted in the 2010 President’s Cancer Panel Report:  http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/annualreports/pcp08-09rpt/PCP_Report_08-09_508.pdf  The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly 80,000 chemicals on the market in the United States, many of which are used by millions of Americans in their daily lives and are un- or understudied and largely unregulated, exposure to potential environmental carcinogens is widespread. One such ubiquitous chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), is still found in many consumer products and remains unregulated in the United States, despite the growing link between BPA and several diseases, including various cancers.  While BPA has received considerable media coverage, the public remains unaware of many common environmental carcinogens such as naturally occurring radon and manufacturing and combustion by-products such as formaldehyde and benzene.

b)  Benzene’s role as a possible breast carcinogen is specifically highlighted in the new (and highly conservative) Institute of Medicine report: http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/Breast-Cancer-and-the-Environment-A-Life-Course-Approach/Press-Release.aspx

c)  Benzene’s links to breast cancer are described in the science review by Silent Spring Institute http://sciencereview.silentspring.org/mamm_detail.cfm?cid=71-43-2.  See also, Brody JG, Moysich KB, Humblet O, Attfield KR, Beehler GP, Rudel RA. Environmental pollutants and breast cancer: epidemiologic studies. Cancer. 2007, 109(12 Suppl):2667-711.

d)  Benzene’s links to breast cancer are reviewed by the California Breast Cancer Research Program’s 2007 report, Identifying Gaps in Breast Cancer Research: Addressing Disparities and the Roles of the Physical and Social Environment:  http://www.cbcrp.org/sri/reports/identifyinggaps/GAPS_full.pdf

And we know that breast cancer rates are associated with industrial and traffic-related air pollution in Long Island:  Lewis-Michl EL, Melius JM, Kallenbach LR, Ju CL, Talbot TO, Orr MF, Lauridsen PE. Breast cancer risk and residence near industry or traffic in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, New York. Arch Environ Health. 1996, 51(4):255-65.

We also know, from EPA data,  that north Texas has at least two census tracts in which the cancer risk from toxic air pollution is significantly high: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/nata2002/risksum.html.

And we know that 35 different air pollutants act as breast carcinogens in animal studies:  Rudel RA, Attfield KR, Schifano JN, Brody JG. Chemicals causing mammary gland tumors in animals signal new directions for epidemiology, chemicals testing, and risk assessment for breast cancer prevention. Cancer. 2007, 109(S12):2635-66.

In conclusion, there are plenty of biological reasons to suggest that air pollution and other stressors from drilling and fracking operations in the Barnett Shale area of Texas may be playing a role in the story of breast cancer.

Please check out my new short film The Sky Is Pink

Also, please see below the recent Op-Ed written by me and Barbara Arindell for the Albany Times-Union:

Recently, politicians and publications have conditionally endorsed so-called “safe fracking” as a part of the nation’s energy mix. But safe fracking is an impossibility, and the industry’s claims for it are knowingly based on false premises.

Chief among them is the notion that a “leakproof well” is possible. We’ve heard time again that strict regulation is the key to moving forward on fracking, and that new regulations should make sure that industry constructs leakproof wells that do not pollute the water table. There is no such thing as a leakproof gas well. The gas industry knows this; in fact, it has known it for decades.

The part of the gas well that they’re relying on to protect groundwater is simply cement: about a 1-inch-thick layer between the steel casing and the surrounding rock. Cement is permeable before it sets, subject to cracking afterward and can never be made leakproof. A 1-inch layer could never be adequate when groundwater is at risk.

The gas industry’s own documents and case studies show that about 6 percent of cement jobs fail immediately upon installation, and recent experience in the Pennsylvania Marcellus shale has borne this out over and over again.

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection has tracked gas leaking from wells across the state. They found 6.2 percent of new gas wells were leaking in 2010, 6.2 percent in 2011 and 7.2 percent so far in 2012.

When the cement fails, it opens a pathway for gas and other toxins involved in the drilling and fracking process to migrate into groundwater and to the surface.

Cementing failure was what caused the blowout of the Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico, the ongoing enormous gas leak in the North Sea and contamination of groundwater onshore from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. Over the nearly four years the “Gasland” film team spent researching the issue on the ground, there was nowhere in the hundreds of cities and towns in 20 states we visited that didn’t have a significant groundwater contamination problem resulting from drilling and fracking.

The gas industry has been studying the ongoing problem for decades, and knows it full well. In a report entitled “Well Integrity Failure Presentation,” drilling service company Archer reports that nearly 20 percent of all oil and gas wells are leaking worldwide. A 2003 joint industry publication from Schlumberger, the world’s No. 1 fracking company, and oil and gas giant ConocoPhillips, cites astronomical failure rates of 60 percent over a 30-year span. Industry reports on the problem point to its persistence and the impossibility of completely preventing it.

This is technically impossible. In most cases the industry only acts to try to repair leaky wells after groundwater has been contaminated. Its track record for fixing leaks is plagued by bad planning, technical problems and mishaps. To imagine gas companies voluntarily committing to an eternity of costly maintenance on wells failing at ever-increasing rates is beyond credulity.

Nor have regulators addressed the problem with any realism. The argument that regulation can lead to “safe fracking” is senseless. To frack a well, you have to cement it, and cement inevitably fails. “Safe fracking” is a contradiction in terms.

Leaking oil and gas wells are more than statistics. Failure rates mean thousands across the nation have enough contaminants in their water and land to render them unfit for residential or agricultural use. They’re left with homes they are forced to abandon, and compromised health.

Yet we’ve almost totally failed to assess health impacts of fracking. The one study we know of is a preliminary one done in Colorado by the Colorado School of Public Health. It found a likelihood of moderate to severe health affects from drilling and fracking. Members of the New York state Legislature have joined with environmental groups to demand a full public health impact assessment before fracking is authorized here.

A health assessment is minimum due diligence when our water supply and public health hang in the balance. It’s not only the gas wells that have integrity problems; it is the oil and gas industry itself. We can believe in their self-interested assertions of leakproof wells about as much as we can expect pigs to fly. On both fronts, the only course is to rely on objective evidence.

Josh Fox and Barbara Arindell

Dear Friends:

The Delaware is the river that runs through the heart of the film GASLAND. We’ve kept drilling and fracking out of the river basin for the past three and a half years. Now the Delaware River faces its most grave and urgent threat.

Please see this video that Matt Sanchez and I just created to highlight the critical importance of the upcoming vote on October 21st in Trenton NJ:

This is an urgent call to the fans of GASLAND and to the anti-fracking movement across the nation:

Please act now to Save the Delaware River.

On October 21st, the Delaware River Basin Comission will vote on a plan to allow over 20,000 gas wells in the Delaware River Basin. We need calls to come from all over the nation and we need people from all over the region to come out in protest on October 21st.

The Delaware River Basin Commission is an intergovernmental body that is comprised of five voting members, Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, Governor Christie of New Jersey, Governor Corbett of Pennsylvania, Governor Markell of Delaware, and the Obama Administration represented by the Army Corps of Engineers. For the Delaware River to be opened up to drilling, three out of the five have to vote yes on the draft regulations plan. We need them all to reject the proposal and reject gas drilling and fracking.

There has never been a more urgent moment in the Northeast in the battle against fracking. The Delaware is the primary drinking water source for 15.6 Million people and is a national treasure.

Here are 4 ways that you can participate:

1) Call the the Governors from the member states and President Obama TODAY and tell them, “Hello, I am calling you to express my serious concerns about hydrofracking. Please Don’t Drill the Delaware!”

Governor Christie’s office – 609-292-6000
Governor Cuomo’s office – 518-474-8390
Gov Corbett’s office – 717-787-2500
Gov Markell’s Wilmington Office – 302-577-3210
And the white house comment line is 202-456-1111
2) Come to the DRBC meeting in person!

When: October 21, 8 am

Where: Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive Trenton, N.J. Map HERE.

There are over 20 buses traveling in from all over the region. Click HERE for bus sign up.

3) Delaware Riverkeeper will be hosting a Peaceful Non-Violent Direct Action Training on October 20th. For more information, sign up HERE.

4) If you work with an organization fighting to keep our water safe from hydraulic fracturing, please send this alert to those in your membership, and post it on facebook.

We will continue to send updates in the coming weeks.

For more information go to www.savethedelawareriver.com or visit www.delawareriverkeeper.org

With your help, we can stop the poisoning of our historic rivers and move to renewable and sustainable energy solutions.

Thanks for all you do! Together we can turn the tide.

Josh and the Gasland Team

So many of us were working incredibly hard to stop the Keystone XL pipeline and we won this round.  I got arrested in front of the White House.   Almost all of my friends got arrested in front of the White House.  My mom got arrested in front of the White House.  And we stopped the pipeline for now.  We did it.  We owe a huge thanks to Bill McKibben and TarSandsAction and all of their brilliant organizers.

Now we can do the same to stop fracking in the Delaware River basin.

We’re not just going to sit back and enjoy victory are we?

We are going to keep up the momentum and get ready for November 21st!

I was on Democracy Now! today – take a moment to check out the video from that appearance:

We’ve come a long way in the fight against fracking.  The flaming faucets in GASLAND has been seen by upwards of 40 million people in 20 countries.  Our awareness campaign has worked.  A recent study shows that 4 out of 5 Americans say that they are concerned about the effect of fracking on drinking water.

Our most important stand is less than two weeks away.

On November 21st the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) will vote to approve a plan that will allow for 20,000 or more fracked gas wells in the Delaware River Basin.  We need you to come out and protest the vote in huge numbers.

If any oil or gas is found, the district would benefit financially through royalties, or a certain percentage of revenues.

Countrymark Energy Resources is an oil exploration and production subsidiary of CountryMark, which is based in Indianapolis and has a refinery in Mt. Vernon.

The agreement, an oil and gas license, allows the company to lease gas and oil mineral rights under the elementary school property, affecting about 28 acres.

Countrymark would “lease the rights to produce any oil that might be found under school property,” Richard Sumner, vice president of exploration for Countrymark Energy Resources, said in a telephone interview prior to the meeting.

If oil or gas is found, and depending on how much, “It could be a potential financial boon for the school district,” Superintendent Dan Tanoos said last week.

The school district would receive 28 percent of the gross proceeds, or “royalties,” off what is produced, according to the agreement approved by the board. Countrymark also will pay a certain “small amount” to do exploration, Tanoos said.

During a public comment period, Matt Effner, who has two children at Lost Creek, asked the board to postpone action so that parents would have more time to ask questions and learn more about what is proposed. He and other parents have concerns about potential safety issues and they “haven’t had much time to consider this.”

Tanoos said the Department of Natural Resources has strict permitting guidelines Countrymark must follow, which put his mind at ease about safety issues.

Also, the company would not have to go onto Lost Creek school property to drill. It would do horizontal drilling from other property where it already is drilling, so there wouldn’t be any tanks or any types of drilling devices on school property. He noted that Countrymark has agreements or is drilling on nearby properties.

The drilling under Lost Creek Elementary property would be about 1,500 feet underground and it would not affect the playground or school, Tanoos said.

The superintendent met with school staff Monday to talk about the potential drilling.

The company will first do background exploratory work, and Tanoos didn’t anticipate any drilling to occur before summer.

If the company does find oil or gas, and the school district does gain revenues, the School Board would then determine what do with the money generated, Tanoos said. “Through your vision, we’ll find the proper use for the money,” he said.

After the meeting, Effner said, “I’m disappointed they didn’t have more  discussion.”

CountryMark is one of the largest privately held companies in Indiana, Sumner said earlier in the day.

The drilling will not create any health or safety issues, Sumner said. If it posed any dangers, “We would not do this … and the state would not let us do it and the school district would not let us do it,” Sumner said.

On the other side of the coin, Sumner said, “People need to look at the benefit of potentially several thousand dollars a month revenue stream to the school district, especially at time of declining school revenues.”

If after 18 months no oil is found, the rights to drill under school property would expire, according to the agreement.

The environmental contamination and human health risk associated with the extraction of natural gas using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” was little known across the United States for years, until a documentary film brought the issue to the national stage. Josh Fox directed the film Gasland, which chronicles the devastation affecting communities where fracking is taking place and the influence of the natural gas industry over regulation of the techniques and chemicals used in the process. The industry aggressively attacked the film, especially when it was nominated for an Academy Award this year. [includes rush transcript].

1) Call the Governors and President Obama TODAY and tell them Don’t Drill the Delaware, and Don’t approve ANY regulations to permit fracking!

1. Governor Christie’s office  -             609-292-6000      
2. Governor Cuomo’s office -             518-474-8390      
3. Gov Corbett’s office –             717-787-2500      
4. Gov Markell’s Wilmington Office -             302-577-3210      
5. And the white house comment line is             202-456-1111      

2) Come to the DRBC meeting!

When: November 21, 8 am,

Where: Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive Trenton, N.J. Coming from another location? 

Bus sign up HERE.

Sign up for email updates HERE.

3) There are two the Peaceful Non Violent First Amendment Trainings taking place on November 20th: 

-Sign up for the Training in Trenton HERE.

-Sign up for the Training in NYC HERE.