Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Documentarian Josh Fox takes a look at the new phenomenon of fracking. The oil and gas industry has developed hydraulic drilling to inject a mix of water and chemicals into the ground and fracturing rock releasing the natural gas stored. President Bush and Dick Cheney signed bills to exempt the practice from environmental laws like the Safe Drinking Water Act. Fox is offered around $100k to lease his remote family Pennsylvanian home. He goes and finds rural residents that have suffered from contaminated water believed to be the result of the fracking. This movie is definitely one-sided. It's part-investigative and part-advocacy. He plays the little guy angle to its utmost. One thing that can't be denied is that this started a conversation. The burning water visual cannot be ignored.

I have been dedicated to heightening public awareness for critical issues. Here's the newest one: Fracking. Fracking is short meaning of hydraulic fracturing and what it does is fractures in a rock layer caused by the presence of a pressurized fluid pump in to get natural gases. The fluid injected into the rock is typically a slurry of water, proppants, and chemical additives, but can be compressed gases including nitrogen, carbon dioxide or air. Additionally, gels, foams, and compressed gases and other various types can be used. This new way of getting oil, is dangerous to the environment by fears and prove of contamination of public drinking water, air quality, contamination to land by spills and flowback. This is what the film 'GasLand' is mostly about. In the film, there are examples of families having bizarre aberrations like flammable tap water. First-time feature director Josh Fox says it cause by fracking, but other media sources are stating out that methane was in the aquifer before fracking even started in the area. So it's hard to figure out, who is telling the truth. If you like 'Gasland' try also watching FrackNation (2013) for two-sided review. Then watch Gasland Part II (2013). All we know, is that fracking is United States energy independence. International Energy Agency is now calling this 'golden age of gas' and now all the gas n oil companies are searching out permissions from the DOE (Department of Energy). While the main industrial use of hydraulic fracturing is in stimulating production from oil and gas wells, hydraulic fracturing is also applied to many things such as stimulating groundwater wells, preconditioning rock for caving and helping mining. It's also a means to enhancing waste remediation processes, usually hydrocarbon waste. It's a good way to study the measures of the stress in the earth for scientist. It's also used for heat extraction to produce electricity in an enhanced geothermal systems. It's also helps create a lot of new jobs for Americans blue collar work. Now that I told you the goods, let me talk about the bads: there been a lot of the potential mishandling of volatile organic compounds (VOCS) waste such as benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene, and the health effects of these VOCS has cause health effects such as neurological problems, birth defects, and cancer to people. Other health effects cause by VOCS are lung function, increase respiratory illness, and is particularly dangerous to lung development in children in which the movie talks about. One big problem is bacteria, anaerobic iron and sulfate degrading bacteria rapidly proliferate in the fracturing fluids, causing corrosion of the pipes and clogging of the proppants in some example scenes. Inevitably biocides had to be included in the fracturing fluid to inhibit bacterial growth to keep the gas flowing. However, in recent years, there has been a tremendous public concern about the environmental impact associated with hydraulic fracturing and, in particular, the possible contamination of the aquifer and nearby streams by biocides and other chemicals present in the fracturing fluid. This triggered the frantic search for more environmentally benign options to keep anaerobic organisms from proliferating, despite the insistence of the oil industry that the technology is safe. This was the purpose of this film. Fox traveled across the nation and through the gas patches in his old car with nothing but his curiosity and a camera. Throughout the documentary, Fox reached out to scientists, politicians and gas industry executives and ultimately found himself in the halls of Congress to debate about this. Still, Gasland contains a lot of misinformation and misrepresentation about the natural gas industry. I wish the movie try more to explain if fracking has been known to cause earthquakes. Earthquakes induced by human activity cause of which was injection of fluids into deep wells for waste disposal and secondary recovery of oil, and the use of reservoirs for water supplies in documented locations in US, Japan and Canada. I neither relish the idea is that fracking is all bad, cause it's isn't, but it's not environmental safe. The bad outdoes the goods. An alternative technology needs to be developed as soon as possible to solve this environmental concern. Technological advances often times are not at the same pace with the response necessary to negate environmental issues that result from catastrophic failure or unforeseen damage. The case in point is the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We cannot have another BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster. Work on developing coatings containing covalently bound selenium to help stop contaminations. It's need money and time- so oil companies do your part to save the environment, don't take the cheap way out. Still, Gasland is an entertaining, high energy piece of art that will make you laugh and leave you terrified. If this film doesn't make you think about the future and motivate you to action, check your pulse.

It is happening all across America -- rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property.We see natural gas leaking into water wells, turning it colors and making people sick. The film shows a horse, cat and person with hair missing from drinking the water. By far the most visual part is when various residents are able to light their tap water on fire. Burning water? Seems impossible, yet there it is.What to make of this? The strongest critics say it is a fraud, but there is more than enough evidence to show this is an accurate film. And yet, we cannot just stop producing gas and other forms of energy -- it would cripple the nation. What do we do? It seems that we need to find a safer way...

This film contains a lot of factual errors and omits as much as it includes. The least danger of hydraulic fracturing is cross-contamination of hydrocarbons into drinking water. Fracturing happens deep underground and there is over a kilometre of compressed rock barrier between that prevents any leaks. Wells are also inspected and monitored to make sure there are no leaks, as it is uneconomical for the oil or gas to escape. Watch Truthland to see the a rebuttal of some of the falsehoods in this movie. Most chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing are also used in the food industry and are not hazardous. All chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing are revealed on the website fracfocus. Josh Fox films and excellent piece of misleading propaganda.