Posts Tagged ‘gasland’
“GasLand” Director Arrested!
Kristian LinQuasi-local film news: Josh Fox, the director of GasLand and a former Weekly profilee, was arrested this morning for trying to film a Congressional committee meeting on fracking and drinking water contamination. Apparently, the...
NY Times Takes Aim At Gas Drilling
Jeff PrinceDirector Josh Fox’s documentary on natural gas drilling, “Gasland,” didn’t win an Oscar at last night’s Academy Awards program, but gas drilling critics today are still pumped: The New York Times k...
Natural Gas Industry Blunders On Josh Fox, Gasland
Jeff PrinceThe shills for the natural gas industry have been smart up to this point. They deny all accusations levied at their industry regarding environmental damages. They hire teams of lawyers, lobbyists, and scientists to protect thei...
Starting with the Weekly
StaticFort Worth Weekly’s numerous stories during the early days of natural gas exploration in the Barnett Shale played a prominent role in research by Pennsylvania film director Josh Fox, whose documentary Gasland won a jury prize...
Gasland, Josh Fox In Town Tonight
Jeff PrinceAnyone interested in the gas drilling phenomenon can get an eye-opener tonight at the Gasland screening. Gasland, on HBO’s extended playlist through 2012, nabbed a special jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Fes...
Gas Drilling Doc on HBO
Jimmy FowlerIf you thought “Barnett Shale” was a character on King of the Hill, then you obviously haven’t been keeping up with the Weekly’s longtime reporting on natural gas drilling in North Texas. Tonight (Monday) at 8pm, HBO wi...
Sundance Award for Gasland
dan.mcgrawDocumentary filmaker Josh Fox’s movie GASLAND, which explores environmental issues and corporate greed within the nationwide natural gas shale drilling explosion, has been awarded the Special Jury Prize by the Sundance F...