newportFILM Presents a Special Screening Of GASLAND 2/16

newportFILM presents a special screening of GASLAND- ACADEMY AWARD® nominee for Best Documentary Feature, OSCAR® nominee Josh Fox in attendance!

Wednesday, February 16th
7:30PM
Jane Pickens Theater
$10

Just two weeks after our screening in Newport, the filmmakers will head to Los Angeles to attend the 83rd Annual Academy Award® ceremony! Watch on February 27th to see if they take home an OSCAR® statue! This is your chance to be a part of the Oscar® action!

This quiet, hard-hitting documentary began when director Josh Fox wondered why a company was offering his family $100,000 to drill for gas on the lands around their house in rural Pennsylvania. After discovering the pollution being wreaked locally, Fox set out on a journey that took him across America, where gas companies are destroying the environment by using the process of hydraulic fracturing "fracking" to drill for gas. In the process of fracking, millions of gallons of chemically treated water are pumped down into the earth to crack open the rock and release the precious gas. These chemicals have devastating effects on the water supply. Fox makes lucid a complicated story, and one of the many players involved is Dick Cheney, who as CEO of Halliburton, oversaw the development of the devastating engineering equipment used in fracking and then, as vice-president, chaired a federal Energy Task Force that brought about legislation making gas drilling exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act and helping to neutralize the Environmental Protection Agency. - The Guardian

"GASLAND just might be the best film of the year."
- The Huffington Post

"If a film can ever enact social change, which is rare, the potency of GASLAND suggests that this may be that film."
-Variety

If you are interested in learning more about how issues relating to the natural gas industry may impact our area:

The 2nd Congress of Councils of RI and MA, opposing the siting of the Weaver's Cove Liquified Natural Gas terminal in Fall River and the Mt. Hope Bay, and the accompanying transits up the Narragansett Bay by LNG tankers, is scheduled for:

Wednesday, February 16th
4 PM - 6 PM.
The Eagle
35 North Main St.
Fall River, Massachusetts

Join us after the screening to hear director Josh Fox join a discussion with local leaders and experts on how the LNG terminal could impact our home.

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