Review of documentary “Gasland”
The short film highlights the problems, which arise from the drilling for natural resources such as gas. As the title of the movie indicates, it explores and documents evidenced in terms of narrations from the public in the various states in the United States such as Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Texas. The effects traverse, environmental conditions, health issues and the infrastructural conditions of the surrounding areas. The documentary evaluates the positions of numerous people such as engineers, scientists, politicians and gas industry tycoons in the gas industry. After interviews of various people, Fox finds himself in the midst of a meeting in Congress, which aims at enacting law for regulation of hydraulic fracturing in extraction of resources. Hence it is agreeable that there is dire need for the reevaluation of the existent laws, regulations and policies to ensure the protection of interests of the population, the environment as well as ensuring prosperity through ecologically sensitive extraction of gas and other resources.
This is because the extraction process uses hydraulic fracturing which uses a lot of water and chemicals to bring out the natural resources. In the course of the documentary, Fox comes across a meeting, which discusses the Fracturing Responsibility, and Awareness of Chemicals Act, which aims at ensuring that hydraulic fracturing is a federally regulated activity as provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act. This seeks to ensure that entities engaged in the extraction of natural resources using hydraulic means are liable for contamination of drinking water for both human and animal consumption. Hence, it sought to ensure due care in extraction process using hydraulic fracturing.
The contamination of water is evident in that majority of households in areas undertaking extraction of resources through hydraulic fracturing. This has been a driver of numerous health complications because of the ferocity of extraction processes resulting in destruction of natural water supply systems such as aquifers, underground streams and rivers as well as natural systems such as clean water pipelines. Thus, extraction of resources using hydraulic processes result in unwarranted negative effects such as health problems.
Contamination of water supply is a serious issue since it results in the disruption of water supply to the population in an area. Water decontamination processes are expensive, which could be financially draining to the respective local authority of an area. In addition, it also results in loss of property value in areas surrounded by the extraction sites. This is because the pollution associated with such a process is extensive. There is noise pollution resulting in loss of peace for local residents. Degradation of land results in loss of value of land in an area. However, the economic benefits include increased revenues for the local authority, increased employment opportunities, new business startups related to the gas extraction sites, and increased circulation of funds due to increased population and employment opportunities provided by the extraction plants.
The film could highlight both advantages and disadvantages of the establishment of gas extraction plants, which use hydraulic fracturing as a means of extraction. The film focuses on the negative aspects of such undertakings. It could incorporate alternative methods to the hydraulic fracturing process, which causes detrimental effects to the environment and populace of an area. The film focuses on the effects of hydraulic fracturing processes. This could be highlighted with evidence of the effects such as spills into lakes, and water sources, damage to local infrastructure such as roads and pollution of the air due to large amounts of dust mixed with chemicals. Documented evidence is essential to provide the audience with succinct views of the effects of the extraction process on the environment and on the local populace of a given area.
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