Full article here. Read the whole thing, including the comments.

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Excerpts:

"If you’re like me – and I’m certain most of you are – I know one thing you can never get enough of is Hollywood media types using their entertainment platforms to lecture the “little people” about politics and national policy. The next one stepping up to the batters’ box is Josh Fox, director of the anti-natural gas drilling hit piece, “Gasland.” Having been nominated for an Oscar by his left coast friends, he may be using that high profile event to make sure that nobody is endangered by our efforts to develop natural gas resources here in the United States."

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"Gasland was nine parts fantasy with a few sprinkles of propaganda on top. Fox’s efforts to depict rural homes as ticking time bombs awaiting only the right spark to set off natural gas explosions was opportunistic and sensationalized. Are there homes in rural Pennsylvania (among others) where natural gas leaks out of the water faucets in homeowners’ sinks? Yes, indeed there are. I’ve seen it myself.

In an area scores of miles away from the site of any drilling in known history."

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"And here’s the real kicker: to protect themselves from environmental lawsuits, energy companies have taken to inserting probes into the ground for miles around all proposed drill sites before the first drill bit digs into the ground. Guess what? In these areas, they found natural gas seeping out in almost all of the test sites and ground water before they even began work."