by Chris Bodenner
[Re-posted from yesterday with several more questions suggested by readers to ask Fox. It takes less than a minute to vote your preference if you have the time.]
From his Wiki page:
Josh Fox is an American film director and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary, Gasland. In addition to this film, he is one of the most prominent public critics of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. In February 2012 he was arrested during a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing on hydraulic fracturing when he attempted to videotape the proceedings.
Gasland 2 is premiering soon at the Tribeca Film Festival and will air on HBO over the summer. From a recent interview with Josh:
[EnergyWire]: In New York, there’s a moratorium against high-volume horizontal fracking, and efforts to end the moratorium have been slowed, partly by vocal activists like you. Do think “Gasland” is directly responsible for slowing down or blocking fracking in New York and sparking the anti-fracking movement there?
JF: They’re concurrent. I saw an industry white paper on this that shows when “Gasland” came out, there was a big spike and that attention never left the media. “Gasland” brought something to a high level of media attention that might not have been that way before, but what it also did was it showed people from different areas that they had the same issues. It’s a comparative study. It brought people out of their isolation. When you had the media hone in on that film in 32 countries, where 50 million people watched it, that’s incredible to me. I started out doing the film as an exercise for my neighbors [in Pennsylvania]. It was a prayer that we would get into [the Sundance Film Festival].
EW: In our pregame interview, you suggested Democrats and CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Committee — have the same policy on fracking. Could you elaborate?
JF: I wouldn’t say it’s exactly the same policy, but I do think there’s been an embrace on both sides of the aisle. And I don’t think that was done with good science, I don’t think that was done with sound information. The gas industry has this myth that gas is better than coal, but they know it’s no better because of methane leakage problems.
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