Gasland – City’s drinking water is radioactive, thanks to fracking. Only question is, how much?

The natural gas industry has spent months attacking the documentary Gasland http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ as a deeply flawed piece of propaganda. After it was nominated for an Oscar, an industry-sponsored PR group asked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to reconsider the film’s eligibility.

Oscar-nominated doc Gasland http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ covers the other, even more dramatic issues with fracking: Importantly, the radium and wastewater issues are completely independent of the issue of groundwater contamination in the immediate area of fracking operations.

The latter is the subject of the documentary Gasland, which was nominated for an Oscar for best feature-length documentary but didn’t ultimately win. (Donald Carr reviewed the film for Grist http://www.grist.org/article/2010-01-29-the-best-green-films-at-sundance when it first debuted at Sundance.)

by Christopher Mims

Full Story: http://www.grist.org/article/2011-02-28-pittsburgh-drinking-water-radioactive-fracking-natural-gas-times

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Near Yellowstone, uncertainty lingers more than 4 years after gas well blowout

A gas well blowout in the shadow of Yellowstone National Park spewed a cloud of explosive natural gas, forced evacuations for miles around and polluted the drinking water — and the people who live in Wyoming’s Line Creek Valley still wonder four years later if their lives will return to normal.

Days of panic after the Aug. 11, 2006, blowout at the Crosby 25-3 well have been replaced by lingering uncertainty about a pollution plume 225 feet underground. Now Windsor Energy is applying to drill a new well — inside Shoshone National Forest, less than a mile from the blowout — even though the blowout’s cause, to this day, remains a mystery.

Full Story: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_d28b352c-be40-5d4a-ae35-ce7591366df7.html