Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, GasLand is a personal story that rapidly becomes a global one. Josh Fox lives in a rural retreat in upstate New York. One day he receives a letter making an offer for the rights to drill for natural gas on his land. He starts to ask questions and the more he asks, the more devastating are the answers.

A drilling boom across America, using a system of hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' (a method also on the rise in Australia), has contaminated the water table in numerous states, but the corporate giants are in cover-up mode and the government has regulated itself out of the picture. 'GasLand may become to the dangers of natural gas drilling what Silent Spring was to DDT.' - Variety.

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