Debunking Gasland.

• Author: Bailey, Ronald
• Position: Feature documentary FrackNation - Briefly Noted - Movie review - Brief article

The new feature documentary FrackNation demolishes the anti-fracking claims made in Josh Fox's Emmy-winning film Gasland. In a work funded by a Kick starter campaign, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney investigate the claims that fracking has contaminated private well water so badly that hapless residents can set their faucets on fire (it hasn't), that it so polluted air in a Texas town that it boosted cancer rates and caused brain damage (it didn't), and that it causes damaging earthquakes (it doesn't).

Anti-fracker Fox nervously and amusingly ducks many attempts by McAleerto get information...