Sustainable Speaker Series
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Lorenz, Inc. | Living Classrooms Foundation | Enoch Pratt Free Library | Urbanite
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Josh Fox, Director of Gasland
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
6:00 p.m. at the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Central Branch, 3rd Floor
400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD
When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination through our country’s natural gas drilling world, now dubbed Gasland. Josh Fox will lead a lively post-movie discussion sharing his experiences and news of the Gasland 2 sequel.
Hydrofracturing (a.k.a. fracking) has been on fire in Pennsylvania and other states. Oil companies are knocking on Maryland’s door to drill for natural gas in Western Maryland. Fracking is a way to release the impossible-to-find gas buried miles down in the Marcellus shale. Oil companies shoot water and toxic chemicals into the shale and bring the natural gas and the fracking water and chemicals back to the surface.
Why should this matter to you?
Knowing the facts about fracking is important because the Susquehanna River, which runs through Pennsylvania’s fracking fields (5,000+ wells_, is the Baltimore-areas’s baack-up water source. Because Blatimore’s water source and watershed are good, our local water treatment plant is not designed to clean out chemicals if the Susquehanna is tarnished. What happens in Pennsylvania, may not stay in PA?
Dowload the press release here for more information.
Watch the Gasland movie screening on November 1, 2011, engage in Josh Fox’s post-movie discussion and make up your mind about fracking and it’s future role in Maryland.
The Sustainable Speaker Series events are offered free and open to the public
thanks to our generous sponsors and friends.
