Gasland

If you haven't watched this film do it.  Even though some of the filming and editing made me a little nauseous it's a shocking and depressing expose of our ever constant lust for money and the battle to ensure adequate environmental protections.

In this case water, which is of course the most precious of all resources we have and the easiest to fuck up.  Which natural gas fracking does a good job of.  I've read articles and seen news pieces on fracking before and the controversy but until you watch someone light their tap water on fire (or in this case like ten people) it seems kind of like one of those environmental things that is out of sight, out of mind.  Well, for a lot of people it seems, it's right in plain view.  Like a gas well in their front yard or in their bodies and in toxic water coming out of their tap.  Fuck me. 

Anyway, just watch it and get mad.  And, as if you need a reason to loathe the too recently departed Bush Administration, they were the one's (this specific action of which I was vaguely familiar with before the film) who created loopholes in the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts to allow oil and gas drilling to be exempted from abiding by the provisions to protect the environment and citizens.  Good job to everyone who voted for that hapless halfwit.  Not that the Obama Administration is really doing anything about it but you know.  You get the picture.  Rabble-B