My event was watching Gasland II, this movie was about the effects of hydraulic fracturing drilling, aka "fracking". Fracking is the pumping of millions of gallons of chemically treated water into the earth which cracks rock and releases gas (). In the film Josh Fox travels around the United States talking to people about how fracking has affected their lives and homes. It has found that fracking contaminates water sources near drilling sites, this has terrible effects on domestic water supplies, making the water not only undrinkable and in most cases flammable. The film shows how the gas industry portrays* natural gas as a clean* and safe* alternative to oil, but in reality fracked wells leak over time. This results in contaminated water and air, thus harming families and attacking* the Earth's climate with greenhouse gases. The film describes how important natural gas is to energy companies and how environmental protection restrictions against fracking have been removed. (?) It also shows how the drilling industry has influenced politicians and regulators. The United States Environmental Protection Agency or "EPA" is trying to help residents who have been affected by seeking to hold gas industries accountable for contamination of drilling areas around the United States. For this reason, drilling companies begin to bribe politicians who end up forcing the EPA to close their investigations. In turn, the industries vilify* homeowners who dare* speak out about their contaminated water or health problems. The entire film directly shows how the industry is dark* and malevolent* and how governments are driven by capitalism, making these industries the real source of power behind the government. The film shown at my event was not a good thing... .middle of paper......environmental risks. In the United States and Chemical Valley areas, people are being told to stay indoors and keep doors and windows closed or move out. Moving means leaving the place they have always called home, where some residents grew up and where their children grew up. Most people would rather stay and experience the torment than pack everything up and leave. If free, prior and informed consent were a must* in the expansion of the industry, then so many people would not be living in torment, because they would have known what was going to happen and could have stopped it. Areas like Chemical Valley would not exist as they do now, but they would be more ethical and more thoughtful* about what they are doing not only to the people living in the affected areas, but what they are doing to the earth as a whole, what kind of future and legacies they are leaving behind.