Gasland
Documentary & Discussion
Friday, 29 Mar 2013 at 9:00 am – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
The film Gasland explores the drilling technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," and the lucrative offers energy companies are extending to rural landowners in hopes of tapping into a reservoir dubbed the "Saudi Arabia of natural gas." But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a journey to document the real dangers that accompany the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history. The 9th Annual Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness & the Environmental Imagination: The Future of Water.The Future of Water is a series of invited lectures, creative readings, interdisciplinary panel discussions and a documentary film about the secret life and turbulent future of the world’s fresh and salt water supplies.
Cosponsored By:
- Bioethics Program
- Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities
- College of Design
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture
- History
- LAS Miller Lecture Fund
- Landscape Architecture
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
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