A water testing station on First Avenue. Below is the trailer for Gasland. On today’s Majority Report director Josh Fox discusses the film and the health and environmental dangers of the current nationwide frenzy to drill for natural gas, AKA hyrdofracking. Fracking is a process to release natural gas by pumping millions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals and sand at high pressure thousands of feet underground to create fissures. These chemicals are mixing with the ground water

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