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- I would hope that if I
lived in Alabama in the 1950s,

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I would have marched with
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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- This is the moral
issue of our time.

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- If we don\'t get
a handle on this,

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we will destroy what
we are handing down

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to future generations.

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- Children are sick.

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Adults are sick.

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Animals are sick.

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Streams have been polluted.

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They\'re messing with nature.

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- We\'re talking about
the same drinking water

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everybody is relying upon.

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This should not be
a political issue.

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- It\'s the act of
many getting together

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that can stop the
actions of a few.

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- If we don\'t do it, who will?

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- Horizontal drilling.

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- Hydraulic fracturing.

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- Shale gas extraction.

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- National security.

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- Truck traffic.

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- Clean-burning.

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- Compressor stations.

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- Jobs.

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- Energy independence.

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- Condensate tanks.

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- Bridge fuel.

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- Pipelines.

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- Toxic chemicals.

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- Fracking.

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- Fracking.

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- Fracking.

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- Fracking.

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- Hydraulic fracturing begins
when a borehole is drilled

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vertically about one
mile into the shale,

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then turns to
continue horizontally

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for up to two miles.

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Steel casing and cement
line the entire borehole.

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And along the
horizontal portions,

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small explosions
perforate the casing.

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Next, between 5 and 8 million
gallons of water, silica sand,

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and an array of chemicals
from benign to carcinogenic...

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Such as ethylene glycol,
a friction reducer,

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and glutaraldehyde,
a powerful biocide...

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Are pumped at extremely
high pressure into the well,

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fracturing the shale,
releasing natural gas.

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- You have a lot of gas that you
want to bring to the surface.

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To get to it, you have to drill
through our drinking water

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aquifers, then pump
fresh water and some

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of the most toxic chemicals
we know about to break open

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the shale so the bubbles
of gas are liberated.

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More than just natural
gas is liberated.

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A lot of that water also
comes back up highly toxic,

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radioactive, and full of
heavy metals, some of which...

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Like arsenic... can cause
lung cancer, bladder cancer,

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skin cancer at vanishingly
small concentrations.

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- I\'m a licensed
professional engineer.

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And as such, I have an ethical
obligation when I engage...

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As I have been since
the late 1970s...

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In engineering processes,
products, and acts.

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When I engage in those, I
have an ethical obligation

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to inform the public of risk.

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Young wells, brand new wells,
fail at the rate of 1 in 20.

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Remember that number, 5%.

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And as wells age, the
failure rate goes up.

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The people that I worked with
in the industry for 25 years

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where the engineers and
scientists in the research

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labs.

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And I think they
would agree with me

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that any form of
technology has its limits.

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You\'re working underground, OK?

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You can\'t see what\'s going on.

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You have very,
very little ability

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to actually detect
whether what you think

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was going to happen happened.

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- People didn\'t
know what it was,

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didn\'t know what was going on.

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They snuck in.

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- Weld County has the highest
active density oil and gas well

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count in the entire
United States.

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- Around natural gas, the
facts are pretty clear.

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There\'s no denying the promise
and the tremendous power

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that affordable
natural gas creates.

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It\'s clean.

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It\'s inexpensive.

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It creates jobs here.

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I think it makes the
world a safer place.

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- We have 19,000+ active oil
and gas wells right here.

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This is where natural
gas is actually

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compressed into a liquid
form and then pipelined

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to various holding tanks.

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There are 181
compressors in Colorado.

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This is one of them.

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We can taste the air.

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We can smell the air from
this compressor station,

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and immediately
I got a headache.

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- People see these
types of tanks

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in all of the agricultural
fields in the area,

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and they think it\'s actually
water for agriculture.

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They don\'t actually realize
it is a condensate tank filled

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with gas and crude oil.

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- Crude oil, yeah.

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Yup.

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- We are the moms of Erie
Rising here in Erie, Colorado.

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And we have serious concerns
about the gas drilling

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that\'s occurring right in
our residential area and next

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to our schools.

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- The invasion of
this heavy industry

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has now moved from outside of
cities to inside of cities.

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We have well pads
that are closer

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to homes than the
350-foot setback,

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next to areas like playgrounds,
schools, kindergartens,

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hospitals.

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This right here is
approximately 160 feet

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from the residential
development.

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The conical shape is a volatile
organic combuster stack.

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Volatile organic
compound emissions

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are things such as benzene,
toluene, ethyl benzene,

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cyclopentanes, and the
list goes on and on.

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There are several
hundred different types

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of chemicals that come from
combustor stacks and condensate

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tanks into our homes,
into our bedrooms.

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- There are runningback dreams,
or quarterback comeback?

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- No.

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- Erie Rising was formed because
a group of concerned moms

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had to figure out why so many
strange and bizarre health

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things were happening to us.

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This is the cul-de-sac
that our children play in.

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It\'s well within 100
feet of a BTEX burner.

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We are certainly concerned.

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You can hear that the burner
incinerating at all times,

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and all of these
hydrocarbons are

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releasing all over
the neighborhood.

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- Each condensate tank
releases roughly two tons

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of hydrocarbon vapors per year.

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- With our kids, we\'ve
noticed an abundance

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of allergies, asthma, bloody
noses, gastrointestinal issues,

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skin rashes; A lot of things
that may seem typical,

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but when you kind of
put it all together

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there\'s an uncanny number
of children and families

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experiencing these
health effects.

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- We lived within 150 feet
of open evaporation pits

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for six years.

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I was pregnant with
two of my babies.

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One of my children has
severe autoimmune disorders.

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That same child also
developed asthma overnight,

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within two weeks of this
particular well being

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placed online.

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- My name is Rod Brueski.

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I have three consolidated
pads within a mile radius

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of my family\'s home and
several condensate burners

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going off all the time.

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University of Colorado
Health Science did a study.

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And some of the
conclusions they came up

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with after their two-year
is that if you\'re

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within a half mile
of a completed well,

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the risk for cancers, asthma,
other adverse health effects

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are greatly increased.

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When the well came online
across the road from us,

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my son had chronic nose bleeds.

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I just sometimes lay
awake at night and wonder,

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what are we giving our kids?

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20 years from now, is
it really worth it?

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- We have the oil
and gas companies

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agreeing to add
vapor recovery units,

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because they know
that they\'re not

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capturing all of the emissions.

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So it\'s very hard to be
here a year and a half later

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and have them agree and
admit to adding these safety

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precautions.

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- Have they done it?

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- To new wells, when we have
lived here with our kids during

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the most...

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sorry... when we\'ve lived here
with our kids during the most

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dangerous time.

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And it took our fighting
and our own self-education

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to get them to admit
that it would be best

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to have some more safety
precautions on these.

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- 2 and 1/2 years ago,
there were three activists.

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And now we have over five or six
dozen grassroots organizations

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that we\'ve helped build.

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And so what you\'re
seeing in Colorado

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is this enormous rising.

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It is a groundswell.

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It\'s a rising of activism
against the unregulated oil

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and gas industry, and it\'s
growing exponentially.

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- What it showed
me was that, truly,

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a small group of
committed citizens

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can make massive change.

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- Jason\'s grandparents
built this ranch.

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And we worked hard to
keep it in the family.

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So we do our best to
protect what\'s ours.

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With all the stories
out there, some people

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were surprised that we
allowed fracking on our land.

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But we talked with experts
and learned the facts

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about drilling for
oil and natural gas.

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And guess what?

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It\'s safe...

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- The industry distorts,
disingenuously advertises

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that which I
understand, so that it

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is misunderstood by
the general population.

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- The fundamental problem I have
with the oil company\'s story

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here is that it\'s only
1% of these chemicals.

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The fracking fluids are only 1%.

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In the water
business, contaminants

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are measured in
parts per billion.

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And the tests are typically
10 to 50 parts per billion.

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Only 1% is 10 million
parts per billion.

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This is a million
times more concentrated

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than is allowed
in drinking water.

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Another way to say that is that
only one gallon of an only-1%

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solution can contaminate a
million gallons of drinking

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water.

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And they use millions of
gallons in a single frack.

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(MUSIC PLAYING)

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- Interviews with
her have appeared

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in many major newspapers,
on NPR, the Today Show,

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and Good Morning America.

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She\'s currently a
scholar-in-residence

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in Ithaca at Ithaca
College, and we

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are very fortunate
to have her today.

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Please welcome
Sandra Steingraber.

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(APPLAUSE)

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- On January 1, 1900... the very
first day of the 20th century

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the US Supreme Court
made a decision that changed

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the course of my life, and every
person\'s life in my hometown.

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It decided to permit all the
slaughterhouses in Chicago

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to dump their waste
into the headwater

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tributaries of the
Illinois River.

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The river turned
into an open sewer,

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and soon not just
the surface water

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but also the groundwater was
contaminated with solvents,

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including my hometown
drinking water well.

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So by the age of 20, I was
diagnosed with bladder cancer.

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And that is a disease that
is almost always associated

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with exposure to
chemical contaminants.

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I was just one data
point in a cluster

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of cancers in Tazewell
County, Illinois.

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I grew up drinking
dry cleaning fluid.

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I don\'t want my kids to do that.

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So I decided to choose
a different place,

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and I planted my flag here.

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This is my adoptive homeland.

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- Here\'s a spiderweb.

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- Where?

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I don\'t want to leave.

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I have a spiritual
connection to this place,

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this place that I
chose for my children.

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40% of the land around me is
now leased to the gas industry.

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To me as a mom who
lives in this place, who

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realizes that my children\'s
bodies are made up

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of the air and the
water and the food drawn

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from this environment, the
love I have for my child

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is also the love I
have for this place.

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It\'s about creating together
an unfractured future

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for our children.

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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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I don\'t want my kids
or anybody\'s kids

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to be data points in a cancer
cluster in the way I was.

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I want that to end with me.

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It turns out our
regulatory system is not

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based on the kind of
precautionary thinking

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that I as a mother
would do, but rather

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we promulgate sort of
maximum contaminant limits

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so that the testing and
the regulation we do just

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does not take into account
the special vulnerabilities

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that children have.

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- See if you can breathe
through your mouth like this.

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(BREATHES DEEPLY) Can you
make a noise like that?

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The fracking process
releases benzene,

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and I\'m concerned that the
benzene will give either

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the babies or their
mothers leukemia.

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And give me the big Ahhh.

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The cells are dividing
more rapidly then

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and are more susceptible
to mutations in the DNA.

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You\'re very healthy, Lexie.

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The time lag is 5 to 15 years.

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So we may yet see a
very profound epidemic

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of a terrible disease
unless great care

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is taken with the
disposal of the benzene.

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- There are pregnant women
living all over this landscape.

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There will be pregnant women
living next to drill rigs.

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There will be chemicals
coming out of those drill

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rigs that are reproductive
toxicants that have the ability

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to sabotage pregnancy.

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All of us in the
public health community

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are demanding that we
stop this process now

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until and unless we have a
comprehensive health impact

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assessment with full
public participation.

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To pretend that we can somehow
could put drilling and fracking

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operations in places that people
live and have us not be exposed

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is a little like the claim that
putting a non-smoking section

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on an airplane is
sufficiently protective.

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We are going to open
this process up,

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because secrecy cannot
protect public health!

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- There will always
be well failures.

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And when you\'re talking about
unconventional development

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of gas from shales,
by necessity...

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Geological necessity and
economic necessity...

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You must be talking about a
very large number of wells.

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- We know 6% of wells
leak immediately

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upon being constructed.

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And this is independent of
mistakes or errors or things

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like that.

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They just do.

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And the best data we have
available to us right

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now suggests that
up to 30% of them

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leak within a decade and a half.

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Well, what percent
leaks after one century?

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What percent after
two centuries?

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- The principle ought to
be if the chemical is not

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allowed to be in
groundwater, it shouldn\'t

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be legal to inject
it into the ground.

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- I don\'t understand why
this industry in particular

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gets the exemptions that
no other industry seems

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to have earned or
required or demanded.

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If all other industries
that use chemicals...

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We know there are many
produce chemicals,

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use chemicals in
the environment,

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are required to abide by federal
standards for air and water

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protection, why is
this industry exempt?

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- In 2005, Dick Cheney
and his former employer

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Halliburton got the
fracking process

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exempted from EPA review.

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They did this by putting a
loophole into the 2005 Energy

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Policy Act.

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- This is the most
dangerous moment

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in American history
for democracy.

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We are either going
to be a nation that\'s

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of and by and for the
people, or of and by

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and for large corporations
and the wealthy.

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- During the Bush
administration,

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secret meetings
produced exemptions

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from the Clean Water
Act, the Clean Air Act,

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and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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The bottom line is the
industry can simply

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ignore these regulations
with impunity.

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- When I look at the
chemicals that are used,

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and when I see the other
chemicals and minerals that

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come out of a gas
well, I ask myself,

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is that good for the
health of my children

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and my grandchildren?

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The answer is no.

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It can\'t be good.

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It can never be good.

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Is it harmful, potentially?

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Absolutely.

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- My name is David Kagen.

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Early in 2009, I started to
notice big trucks starting

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to roll up Route 44, which is
our state road right in front

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of our house, goes
up the valley.

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It\'s a rural, two-lane road.

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Tourists use it a lot.

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And no one had any
idea what it was.

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We finally found out that\'s
the gas industry starting here

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in this area.

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And of course
everybody\'s, \"What?\"

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Totally shocked.

00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:03.920
\"What?

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Here?

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Industry?\"

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The wells around here are
in the mountains west of us.

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They\'re in the mountains
up there north of us.

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And they are in the
mountaintops here east of us.

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I\'ve lived in Pine Creek
for about 40 years.

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I\'ve biked and hiked hundreds
of miles throughout this valley

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and the mountains
surrounding it.

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I like to listen to the
creek gurgling along.

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But since the truck
traffic, that\'s really

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been ruined to a
great degree for me,

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and I\'m almost tempted to
start listening just to music

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and block out both the truck
traffic and unfortunately

00:18:53.450 --> 00:18:55.080
the birds.

00:19:01.010 --> 00:19:04.470
Anadarko E And P Company
surface water withdrawal.

00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:10.670
Peak Day Withdrawal Rate...
1.5 million gallons per day.

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The current proposed
blight is the company

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wants to buy a gas station store
and then have trucks come up

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there and dump water, and
then pump that water up

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to their main water conduit
on the mountain tops.

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The problem with
this whole operation

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is that up to eight
tri-axle trucks

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can be there at the same time.

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There\'s an intersection of at
least nine roads there counting

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private driveways.

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There\'s a trailer park in
the back of about 15 trailers

00:19:52.580 --> 00:19:54.799
with families and
young children.

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It would be a disaster.

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That\'s the trucks rolling up and
down our two-lane, narrow Route

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44, which has become
an industrial highway

00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.129
in the words of our
representative Garth Everett.

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He told me, when I
asked him, is this fair

00:20:12.080 --> 00:20:13.949
to say this is an
industrial highway now?

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He said, \"Yes, I guess it is.\"

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(LOUD TRUCK NOISE)

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Construction Vehicle
Do Not Follow.

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What choice do I have?

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My count of the truck
traffic totals about 50 to 60

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every hour.

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And that includes tri-axles,
18-wheelers, and pickup trucks.

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(LOUD TRUCK NOISE)

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This is the way it is.

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I\'ve lived with this for
a year and a half now.

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This is just the beginning.

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They currently have less than
50 working wells in this area,

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and it\'s supposed to
have thousands coming.

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I wanted to live here.

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I wanted to grow old here.

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There\'s a place where you\'ve
got to make a moral stance.

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You\'ve got to say,
enough\'s enough.

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You do this over my dead body.

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Really, if you or somebody else
and people in this trailer park

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can get there, you
can have your voice.

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This proposal, because of
staggering safety concerns,

00:22:08.710 --> 00:22:12.289
should be denied by the
zoning hearing board.

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It\'s much better to have your
voices heard than not heard

00:22:16.420 --> 00:22:18.719
at all, just to sit
back and do nothing.

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So I do strongly believe of
the power of the individual.

00:22:22.730 --> 00:22:25.829
Instead of just talking about
it and never doing anything,

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you can do things.

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- We were looking
to build a new home

00:22:37.210 --> 00:22:40.719
and saw an ad in the paper that
talked about panoramic views

00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:44.199
and \"must see to appreciate.\"

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And it still is panoramic,
except for behind us.

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The first thing we knew was
when the bulldozer showed up.

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We were told what
they were going

00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:59.460
to drill anywhere from 1 to
12 wells across the street.

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The pad starts 35 or 40
feet from our property line.

00:23:05.370 --> 00:23:09.489
The well itself I would estimate
is between 300 and 350 feet

00:23:09.490 --> 00:23:10.949
from our home.

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- The week that they started
was the week before finals week.

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Craig was going to school,
and I was teaching.

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- They set up lights
across the street.

00:23:19.150 --> 00:23:22.179
The lights were shining right
in our bedroom and living room

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windows.

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- We didn\'t get our rest.

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It was just a very stressful
time for both of us.

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- They really don\'t
seem to have any concern

00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:33.600
or courtesy for their neighbors.

00:23:34.740 --> 00:23:38.189
We have close to
$500,000 invested

00:23:38.190 --> 00:23:41.199
between the home,
the lot, landscaping,

00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:42.759
and everything else.

00:23:42.760 --> 00:23:47.539
And it\'s gone at
least $100,000 less.

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And we were told by an employee
of one of the local banks

00:23:50.340 --> 00:23:54.989
that we would not be able to get
a refinance through that bank

00:23:54.990 --> 00:23:58.040
because of being across the
street from the gas well.

00:23:59.100 --> 00:24:00.899
- If we would want
to sell our home,

00:24:00.900 --> 00:24:06.889
banks are hesitant to provide
the financing for a buyer

00:24:06.890 --> 00:24:09.459
because they can\'t
guarantee the water supply.

00:24:09.460 --> 00:24:12.529
- I asked them,
when is there going

00:24:12.530 --> 00:24:14.569
to be grass growing
and deer playing

00:24:14.570 --> 00:24:17.509
and rabbits playing across
the street from our house?

00:24:17.510 --> 00:24:21.529
And their response was,
\'Well, we really don\'t know.\"

00:24:21.530 --> 00:24:26.569
So it\'s going to look like this
for the next 20, 30, 50 years,

00:24:26.570 --> 00:24:28.130
depending on how
long the gas lasts.

00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:39.499
- The Upper Delaware
Watershed has

00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:42.610
been named the number one most
endangered river in America.

00:24:43.660 --> 00:24:44.280
Why?

00:24:44.281 --> 00:24:46.800
Because of the threat from
drilling and fracking.

00:24:50.190 --> 00:24:52.069
- When you\'re putting
in these well pads five

00:24:52.070 --> 00:24:54.859
to seven acres in size,
they\'re creating all kinds

00:24:54.860 --> 00:24:57.999
of disturbance which has
all kinds of consequences.

00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.849
The forest acts as a
sponge and as a filter.

00:25:00.850 --> 00:25:03.589
And so when you change
forest to non-forest

00:25:03.590 --> 00:25:07.709
to turn it into grassland,
you change the runoff rates.

00:25:07.710 --> 00:25:10.299
You don\'t have the
same kind of recharge.

00:25:10.300 --> 00:25:12.859
You change the
filtration of pollutants.

00:25:12.860 --> 00:25:15.159
You change the
sequestration of nutrients

00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:17.089
that get released to the stream.

00:25:17.090 --> 00:25:20.279
Anyone downstream is going to be
fundamentally impacted by what

00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:21.740
happens to these
headwater systems.

00:25:26.820 --> 00:25:31.539
- Being close to the river
for the last 30 years

00:25:31.540 --> 00:25:34.479
has really brought
to me an appreciation

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:37.340
of what the river means
and its watershed means.

00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:41.579
Every single person
who drinks water

00:25:41.580 --> 00:25:44.339
is actually invested
in protecting the river

00:25:44.340 --> 00:25:46.250
by caring about our own health.

00:25:47.980 --> 00:25:50.009
The Delaware River
provides drinking water

00:25:50.010 --> 00:25:52.689
for over 15 million
people, including

00:25:52.690 --> 00:25:53.980
New York City and Philadelphia.

00:25:55.100 --> 00:25:57.809
- The water here in
the Northeast region

00:25:57.810 --> 00:26:00.229
falls into several
major watersheds.

00:26:00.230 --> 00:26:02.699
One of them is the
Delaware River Basin.

00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:06.519
The states that are affected
have actually formed compacts

00:26:06.520 --> 00:26:08.789
so they can work together
to protect their own water

00:26:08.790 --> 00:26:09.790
supplies.

00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:12.539
The Delaware River
Basin Commission

00:26:12.540 --> 00:26:16.269
has regulatory power over
the entire watershed.

00:26:16.270 --> 00:26:17.619
- Whose water?

00:26:17.620 --> 00:26:19.419
- Our water!

00:26:19.420 --> 00:26:23.279
- And when the fracking started
happening in Pennsylvania,

00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:26.149
there were drillers who wanted
to go into the Delaware River

00:26:26.150 --> 00:26:27.130
Basin.

00:26:27.131 --> 00:26:30.489
- I just want to acknowledge the
commission\'s receipt of a March

00:26:30.490 --> 00:26:33.309
1st letter from the
River Keeper Network.

00:26:33.310 --> 00:26:36.339
And the commission has
no further response

00:26:36.340 --> 00:26:37.760
on that item at this time.

00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:39.860
- I\'m sorry.

00:26:39.861 --> 00:26:42.059
We\'re not going to let
you do that to us again.

00:26:42.060 --> 00:26:43.269
- We will address the letter.

00:26:43.270 --> 00:26:44.779
We just simply
can\'t do it today.

00:26:44.780 --> 00:26:46.839
- We need that letter
addressed today,

00:26:46.840 --> 00:26:49.329
because in three months when
you hold your next commission

00:26:49.330 --> 00:26:52.019
hearing, with all due respect,
it will be way too late.

00:26:52.020 --> 00:26:56.389
- There was a groundswell
of grassroots activity

00:26:56.390 --> 00:26:58.809
that organized people to go
to the Delaware River Basin

00:26:58.810 --> 00:27:01.029
Commission and tell
them that there

00:27:01.030 --> 00:27:03.769
should be no drilling
in this area.

00:27:03.770 --> 00:27:06.439
- Whereas the conservation
and utilization, development,

00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.619
management, and
control of water and...

00:27:08.620 --> 00:27:10.489
If there\'s nothing
else I do in my life

00:27:10.490 --> 00:27:13.359
except try to stop
pollution to our watershed,

00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:17.879
except protect our future
generations\' water supply,

00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:19.609
then I\'ve had a life well spent.

00:27:19.610 --> 00:27:21.099
- We want a vote!

00:27:21.100 --> 00:27:23.099
We want a vote!

00:27:23.100 --> 00:27:25.569
- If there was ever going to
be any drilling in that area,

00:27:25.570 --> 00:27:27.249
the Delaware River
Basin Commission

00:27:27.250 --> 00:27:29.929
needed to do a very serious
environmental study,

00:27:29.930 --> 00:27:32.819
and it needed to adopt
very rigorous regulations.

00:27:32.820 --> 00:27:34.689
- We want a vote!

00:27:34.690 --> 00:27:36.719
- The Delaware River
Basin Commission

00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:40.019
was persuaded by this
activity to initiate

00:27:40.020 --> 00:27:41.329
some of these processes.

00:27:41.330 --> 00:27:43.939
The industry decided
that it\'s just not

00:27:43.940 --> 00:27:46.319
going to be profitable
to hang around out here,

00:27:46.320 --> 00:27:49.899
and there are places
it can go where

00:27:49.900 --> 00:27:51.940
it can develop with
less resistance.

00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:56.049
So we have a win here in
the Delaware River Basin,

00:27:56.050 --> 00:27:58.679
and we\'ll start seeing wins
in other parts of the country

00:27:58.680 --> 00:27:59.939
as well.

00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:03.239
- Every single energy source
has its pluses and minuses

00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:04.779
from an environmental
perspective,

00:28:04.780 --> 00:28:07.849
from an economic perspective,
from an efficiency perspective.

00:28:07.850 --> 00:28:12.109
But Pennsylvania natural gas is
the best economic opportunity

00:28:12.110 --> 00:28:13.799
we\'ve had in decades.

00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:18.200
- The economic boom is pretty
fraudulent for the most part.

00:28:19.690 --> 00:28:23.599
Very few folks make a
whole bunch of money.

00:28:23.600 --> 00:28:26.449
- Everyone is telling us that
we\'re all going to have jobs.

00:28:26.450 --> 00:28:28.879
The question is: if you
lose your community,

00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.880
what have you gained?

00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:32.939
- We\'re now in the
middle of Dimock,

00:28:32.940 --> 00:28:35.259
where they have 150
wells and counting.

00:28:35.260 --> 00:28:37.379
And it looks the same as
it looked when I came here

00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:39.709
22 years ago; no
new improvements,

00:28:39.710 --> 00:28:41.569
no extra business.

00:28:41.570 --> 00:28:46.090
And this is Boomtown USA,
five years of drilling.

00:28:49.390 --> 00:28:51.220
My name is Vera Scroggins.

00:28:56.630 --> 00:28:57.910
Oh, it\'s noisy already, huh?

00:28:59.840 --> 00:29:03.069
I\'ve been following this since
2008 since I heard about it.

00:29:03.070 --> 00:29:05.310
I\'ve been documenting
for five years.

00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:09.139
So I have over 400
videos on YouTube

00:29:09.140 --> 00:29:13.249
showing the invasion
of the gas industry.

00:29:13.250 --> 00:29:15.829
Here\'s a site that they\'re
getting ready to frack.

00:29:15.830 --> 00:29:17.070
It\'s a chief site.

00:29:18.010 --> 00:29:20.090
They\'re bringing in all
the Halliburton equipment.

00:29:21.650 --> 00:29:24.309
680 wells here in
Susquehanna County,

00:29:24.310 --> 00:29:26.970
and the footprint is very
extensive and pervasive.

00:29:28.190 --> 00:29:29.819
And it\'s filling
our whole county

00:29:29.820 --> 00:29:32.929
with high-pressure pipelines,
compressor stations

00:29:32.930 --> 00:29:36.319
every two to four miles
of all varying sizes,

00:29:36.320 --> 00:29:41.099
emitting tons of the toxic
emissions and noise 24/7.

00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:44.070
And we\'re being exposed
to all these risks.

00:29:45.430 --> 00:29:49.270
There\'s all the frack
dust, silica dust cloud.

00:29:50.710 --> 00:29:52.749
I called in OSHA
and let them know

00:29:52.750 --> 00:29:55.449
I\'ve been seeing silica
dust and videotaping it.

00:29:55.450 --> 00:29:58.959
This stuff is in
clouds, on sites.

00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:01.069
The workers are
exposed, as well as

00:30:01.070 --> 00:30:03.230
the homeowners that
live below the sites.

00:30:05.090 --> 00:30:08.829
Silica can be pretty fine,
and it can get into your lungs

00:30:08.830 --> 00:30:10.729
and cause inflammation,
and that\'s

00:30:10.730 --> 00:30:11.919
what they call silicosis.

00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.169
Now, they\'re supposed
to be using respirators.

00:30:14.170 --> 00:30:17.079
But even with the respirators,
if you don\'t have it on all

00:30:17.080 --> 00:30:19.669
the time, or how much gets
through or doesn\'t get

00:30:19.670 --> 00:30:21.089
through... you
have to be careful.

00:30:21.090 --> 00:30:22.170
It\'s almost like asbestos.

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.089
This is Montrose High School.

00:30:26.090 --> 00:30:29.419
We\'re here for the special
secret Williams meeting.

00:30:29.420 --> 00:30:32.089
- I\'m sorry, but no
cameras are allowed inside.

00:30:32.090 --> 00:30:32.850
- Oh, really?

00:30:32.851 --> 00:30:34.049
- Yeah.

00:30:34.050 --> 00:30:35.609
- This is a school.

00:30:35.610 --> 00:30:36.919
We\'re residents.

00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:38.219
We pay taxes here.

00:30:38.220 --> 00:30:39.719
We want to hear
what you have to say

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:41.329
about three compressor
stations that

00:30:41.330 --> 00:30:43.930
are within two
miles of a school.

00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:50.759
We have 26 compressor
stations per minute so far.

00:30:50.760 --> 00:30:53.919
Several are being built
within two square miles

00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.199
in the Dimock-Springville
area near Elk Lake schools.

00:30:57.200 --> 00:30:59.989
And now we\'re getting
people finally starting...

00:30:59.990 --> 00:31:03.629
more of them to protest
and express their concerns

00:31:03.630 --> 00:31:07.829
about being exposed to
tons of toxic emissions

00:31:07.830 --> 00:31:09.580
and constant noise 24/7.

00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:15.549
- nobody taking pictures
unless you have a company ID.

00:31:15.550 --> 00:31:16.550
- Sure.

00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:18.199
Let us know.

00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:18.910
She doesn\'t know.

00:31:18.911 --> 00:31:21.210
She\'s just a security guard.

00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:22.970
We\'re on the road.

00:31:22.971 --> 00:31:24.739
We can do anything we want.

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:26.449
- You need to step
back here to the road.

00:31:26.450 --> 00:31:27.090
- Yeah, sure.

00:31:27.091 --> 00:31:28.259
You can step back also.

00:31:28.260 --> 00:31:29.020
- Yeah.

00:31:29.021 --> 00:31:30.480
- Go back to your
shed over there.

00:31:31.610 --> 00:31:33.349
Go back to your shed.

00:31:33.350 --> 00:31:34.190
Do your work.

00:31:34.191 --> 00:31:36.190
We have to let the world
know what you\'re doing.

00:31:37.100 --> 00:31:38.100
Whoa-wee.

00:31:39.210 --> 00:31:40.709
Compressor station\'s burning up.

00:31:40.710 --> 00:31:41.710
Look up there.

00:31:44.540 --> 00:31:46.460
- You can\'t come
on this property.

00:31:49.290 --> 00:31:50.709
- I live here.

00:31:50.710 --> 00:31:51.450
- Right here...

00:31:51.450 --> 00:31:52.240
- Is it close?

00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:53.180
- Not that close.

00:31:53.181 --> 00:31:58.199
- I fight for my own land, my
own environment, my own health

00:31:58.200 --> 00:31:59.870
and the health of
everybody that I know.

00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:03.960
I live here.

00:32:05.030 --> 00:32:07.799
- A lot of times, things are
right underneath our feet

00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:09.699
and all we need to
do is change the way

00:32:09.700 --> 00:32:11.099
we\'re thinking about them.

00:32:11.100 --> 00:32:12.709
A couple decades
ago, we didn\'t even

00:32:12.710 --> 00:32:15.199
realize just how much
natural gas was trapped

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.839
in rocks thousands
of feet below us.

00:32:17.840 --> 00:32:20.619
Technology\'s made it
possible to safely unlock

00:32:20.620 --> 00:32:22.589
this cleaner-burning
natural gas.

00:32:22.590 --> 00:32:25.569
These deposits can provide
us with fuel for 100 years,

00:32:25.570 --> 00:32:28.379
providing energy security
and economic growth

00:32:28.380 --> 00:32:29.459
all across this country.

00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:32.199
It just takes somebody
having the idea.

00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:35.659
And that\'s where the
discovery comes from.

00:32:35.660 --> 00:32:39.559
- Methane is released from start
to finish with this industry.

00:32:39.560 --> 00:32:42.289
Drilling and completion
of the wells themselves

00:32:42.290 --> 00:32:44.329
releases a great deal of gas.

00:32:44.330 --> 00:32:46.959
They are often venting
it into the air.

00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:48.819
And we also know that
the pipelines leak.

00:32:48.820 --> 00:32:51.889
- If society doesn\'t start
controlling methane emissions

00:32:51.890 --> 00:32:54.999
now, immediately,
we\'re likely to run

00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.749
into an irreversible, runaway
global warming phenomenon

00:32:58.750 --> 00:33:03.079
sometime in the time period
of 15 to 35 years from now.

00:33:03.080 --> 00:33:04.999
15 to 35 years.

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:06.199
That\'s pretty soon.

00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:09.109
- If gas migrates
outside the well,

00:33:09.110 --> 00:33:11.049
it\'s possible that
on its way up,

00:33:11.050 --> 00:33:13.849
it comes in contact with an
underground source of drinking

00:33:13.850 --> 00:33:14.869
water.

00:33:14.870 --> 00:33:17.209
In other words, methane
contamination of somebody\'s

00:33:17.210 --> 00:33:18.639
private water well.

00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:22.069
- There has been no proven case
of groundwater contamination

00:33:22.070 --> 00:33:23.690
as a result of
hydraulic fracturing.

00:33:30.340 --> 00:33:31.460
- My name is Craig Stevens.

00:33:33.110 --> 00:33:35.780
I was raised by my father as
a right-wing conservative.

00:33:37.250 --> 00:33:38.150
This can\'t stand.

00:33:38.151 --> 00:33:41.799
We have to have law and order,
or there is no law and order,

00:33:41.800 --> 00:33:42.300
right?

00:33:42.300 --> 00:33:43.300
That\'s it.

00:33:47.830 --> 00:33:50.770
My family\'s been on this
property for 180 years.

00:33:51.950 --> 00:33:54.029
I\'m the sixth-generation
deeded owner,

00:33:54.030 --> 00:33:56.530
and I have four children who
will be the seventh generation.

00:33:59.580 --> 00:34:01.209
Six weeks after
my father died...

00:34:01.210 --> 00:34:03.609
Who would never sign a
lease... Chesapeake signed

00:34:03.610 --> 00:34:06.340
my grandmother in the
nursing home to a lease.

00:34:07.970 --> 00:34:10.219
They said they have the right
to do whatever they want

00:34:10.220 --> 00:34:11.760
on my property
without my permission.

00:34:12.600 --> 00:34:15.999
They own a percentage of the
minerals that come up out

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:16.580
of the ground.

00:34:16.581 --> 00:34:17.950
They own nothing on the surface.

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:22.819
My creek was blown
out eight times.

00:34:22.820 --> 00:34:24.229
There was more mud
from the floods

00:34:24.230 --> 00:34:26.229
that came down these
roads than anybody\'s ever

00:34:26.230 --> 00:34:28.239
seen in their lifetimes
here, because there

00:34:28.240 --> 00:34:30.130
are no trees to hold things up.

00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:34.069
There are now ten
well pads that are

00:34:34.070 --> 00:34:35.849
scheduled for Silver
Lake Township.

00:34:35.850 --> 00:34:38.719
You\'ll hear the owners of
the properties here say,

00:34:38.720 --> 00:34:39.799
\"Get out of my business.

00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:41.859
This is my private property.\"

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:43.059
How about the noise?

00:34:43.060 --> 00:34:44.060
How about the flaring?

00:34:45.680 --> 00:34:48.319
How about the release
of fumes into the air?

00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:49.629
That is not private.

00:34:49.630 --> 00:34:51.879
That\'s not something you\'re
doing on your own property

00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.119
where you don\'t need
anybody else\'s input.

00:34:54.120 --> 00:34:57.299
This issue is a
civil rights issue.

00:34:57.300 --> 00:35:00.159
It\'s about being able to
be safe at your own home,

00:35:00.160 --> 00:35:02.700
and your water to be clean
and your air to be clean.

00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:07.899
You turn a flag upside down
and point it backwards,

00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:10.780
in the military it means you\'re
in distress and you need help.

00:35:11.830 --> 00:35:15.679
So I\'m asking all of our
patriots, anywhere, to help us.

00:35:15.680 --> 00:35:19.729
This isn\'t about gas drilling
or oil drilling or energy use.

00:35:19.730 --> 00:35:21.860
This is about them
taking away our rights.

00:35:25.700 --> 00:35:27.869
I heard about the
problems in Dimock.

00:35:27.870 --> 00:35:29.539
I was told by everybody,
\'They\'re lying,

00:35:29.540 --> 00:35:31.269
the water\'s been bad over
there, they\'ve always

00:35:31.270 --> 00:35:33.049
been able to light
their water on fire.\"

00:35:33.050 --> 00:35:36.249
I heard the spin here from
the pro-drilling people

00:35:36.250 --> 00:35:37.540
that were happy with them here.

00:35:40.980 --> 00:35:42.799
I decided to go over
and educate myself

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:43.880
on the potential problems.

00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:51.719
In 2008, the drill
rigs came in to Dimock.

00:35:51.720 --> 00:35:55.589
And three of the vertical
wells that were drilled

00:35:55.590 --> 00:35:58.969
caused contamination to
33 private water wells.

00:35:58.970 --> 00:36:02.739
The DEP actually found them
guilty of contaminating

00:36:02.740 --> 00:36:04.599
multiple water wells.

00:36:04.600 --> 00:36:06.769
- That well right there has
polluted half the ground

00:36:06.770 --> 00:36:07.770
around here.

00:36:08.470 --> 00:36:09.969
- This is what his
water looks like.

00:36:09.970 --> 00:36:10.730
How do you like that?

00:36:10.730 --> 00:36:11.610
Would you drink that?

00:36:11.611 --> 00:36:13.229
- That\'s how it
comes out of my well.

00:36:13.230 --> 00:36:14.849
- We\'ve been living
with a contaminated

00:36:14.850 --> 00:36:16.529
well for over three years now.

00:36:16.530 --> 00:36:18.289
It says in my lease
that they have

00:36:18.290 --> 00:36:20.939
to restore my well to
original condition.

00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:22.449
They have not done
that, and it says

00:36:22.450 --> 00:36:23.950
that they have to
do it immediately.

00:36:25.330 --> 00:36:27.569
- The industry will
deny responsibility

00:36:27.570 --> 00:36:29.409
for any pollution
at all, whether it\'s

00:36:29.410 --> 00:36:33.099
fracking, wastewater,
or chemicals or methane.

00:36:33.100 --> 00:36:35.079
They claim that the
methane gas that\'s

00:36:35.080 --> 00:36:37.579
getting into the drinking
water of the people in Dimock

00:36:37.580 --> 00:36:40.679
was naturally occurring, even
though the state DEP made

00:36:40.680 --> 00:36:42.999
a determination that they
caused the problem because

00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:44.679
of poor well casing.

00:36:44.680 --> 00:36:47.589
- Once the state determined
that Cabot was responsible,

00:36:47.590 --> 00:36:49.579
they made them provide
water to the families

00:36:49.580 --> 00:36:53.290
because their contract said that
they had to provide the water.

00:36:54.690 --> 00:36:56.489
Water was being
delivered to the homes.

00:36:56.490 --> 00:36:58.790
They had water buffaloes,
that\'s what they live on.

00:37:00.090 --> 00:37:03.969
This continued until
November 30 of 2011,

00:37:03.970 --> 00:37:06.479
when Cabot was given
the order by DEP

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.449
that they can cease
water deliveries.

00:37:09.450 --> 00:37:11.879
- Where\'s the accountability
when things go wrong?

00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:13.829
That\'s the problem.

00:37:13.830 --> 00:37:15.679
- I picked a side
right then and there.

00:37:15.680 --> 00:37:17.599
I chose to stand
for the people who

00:37:17.600 --> 00:37:20.269
were the underdog, the
people that were victims.

00:37:20.270 --> 00:37:22.429
- We will not have
any water in the house

00:37:22.430 --> 00:37:25.939
unless I hook up my
contaminated well back again.

00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:27.350
I am not going to do that.

00:37:36.740 --> 00:37:38.649
- Here\'s what they do.

00:37:38.650 --> 00:37:39.620
They ruin your water.

00:37:39.621 --> 00:37:41.059
You call them.

00:37:41.060 --> 00:37:42.899
They say, \"Just
sign this document,

00:37:42.900 --> 00:37:44.459
and we\'ll have
you all hooked up.

00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:45.410
We\'re not admitting
responsibility,

00:37:45.411 --> 00:37:46.810
but we\'re going
to help you out.\"

00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:56.469
- Your attorney says,
\'Do not sign that.

00:37:56.470 --> 00:37:58.779
That is a non-disclosure
gag order.

00:37:58.780 --> 00:38:00.399
You can\'t sue them.\"

00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:04.239
And they say, \"When you want the
water turned on, you call me up

00:38:04.240 --> 00:38:06.339
and you\'ll sign this document.\"

00:38:06.340 --> 00:38:08.889
That\'s not how I was
raised to run things.

00:38:08.890 --> 00:38:09.929
That\'s not how you do it.

00:38:09.930 --> 00:38:11.630
That\'s not a company
coming in to help.

00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:16.119
- Basically, something is
extremely wrong with the water

00:38:16.120 --> 00:38:17.020
quality.

00:38:17.021 --> 00:38:19.659
When you consider that the
hundreds of different chemicals

00:38:19.660 --> 00:38:22.149
that are put into fracking
fluids, many of which

00:38:22.150 --> 00:38:26.679
are toxins or carcinogens,
are not tested for, then

00:38:26.680 --> 00:38:28.759
who knows what\'s in this water?

00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:30.589
- DEP is saying
that there\'s nothing

00:38:30.590 --> 00:38:32.759
wrong with the water in Dimock.

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:36.019
I want them to show some
responsibility here.

00:38:36.020 --> 00:38:39.649
They come to Dimock, drink
it, take it home with you,

00:38:39.650 --> 00:38:42.239
give it to your kids to
bathe in for a whole month

00:38:42.240 --> 00:38:43.529
and see how you like it.

00:38:43.530 --> 00:38:45.049
My daughter says it the best.

00:38:45.050 --> 00:38:46.959
She says, \"Mom, I
don\'t want to go

00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:49.379
on that contaminated well again.

00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:50.879
I don\'t want to get sick again.

00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:52.779
I don\'t want to get
the rashes, the hives.

00:38:52.780 --> 00:38:56.269
And besides that, I want
to have babies someday.\"

00:38:56.270 --> 00:38:56.760
Thank you.

00:38:56.761 --> 00:38:59.579
(APPLAUSE)

00:38:59.580 --> 00:39:00.859
- I signed the lease.

00:39:00.860 --> 00:39:03.859
I knew what the consequences
may or may not be.

00:39:03.860 --> 00:39:07.619
If my water went bad, I
got to pay the $15,000

00:39:07.620 --> 00:39:08.969
to dig a new well.

00:39:08.970 --> 00:39:11.169
(APPLAUSE)

00:39:11.170 --> 00:39:13.129
- There is no middle of
the road on this issue.

00:39:13.130 --> 00:39:14.139
My side is safety.

00:39:14.140 --> 00:39:16.480
They have not proven to me
that they can do this safely.

00:39:17.570 --> 00:39:19.979
And they\'ve turned the
neighbors against the neighbors.

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:22.839
- Now, violations are
there, hundreds of them.

00:39:22.840 --> 00:39:25.359
Torn liners, pollution
discharged to the waters

00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:26.360
of the commonwealth...

00:39:28.120 --> 00:39:29.970
- We\'ve always had a
wonderful township.

00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:34.519
Now the whole state
and the whole country

00:39:34.520 --> 00:39:38.130
thinks that our township
is nothing but a dump.

00:39:40.050 --> 00:39:43.070
And that\'s wrong...

00:39:44.100 --> 00:39:45.889
when a few people can
ruin it for the rest.

00:39:45.890 --> 00:39:48.769
(APPLAUSE)

00:39:48.770 --> 00:39:51.399
- I\'m not here against
you folks at all.

00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:53.689
Now everybody can say, \"Well,
you can clean your water,

00:39:53.690 --> 00:39:55.809
filter your water, put
the separators on.\"

00:39:55.810 --> 00:39:58.250
There\'s more than just
methane in the water.

00:39:59.470 --> 00:40:02.359
We\'ve had many scientists
at my residence,

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:06.439
and they\'re really
baffled on the water.

00:40:06.440 --> 00:40:08.230
I have three little
children in my house.

00:40:09.630 --> 00:40:10.840
We\'re just looking for water.

00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:16.009
- We are in this together,
whether you\'re making money

00:40:16.010 --> 00:40:19.209
on hydrofracking or not,
it\'s still our water

00:40:19.210 --> 00:40:20.649
and it\'s not right.

00:40:20.650 --> 00:40:22.580
And that\'s what we
have to remember.

00:40:24.500 --> 00:40:26.909
We\'re not Republicans,
we\'re not Democrats,

00:40:26.910 --> 00:40:28.999
we\'re not Independents,
we\'re not anti-fracking,

00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:30.059
we\'re not pro-fracking.

00:40:30.060 --> 00:40:34.189
We\'re Americans, and our water
is the most precious, essential

00:40:34.190 --> 00:40:36.309
thing to all of our lives.

00:40:36.310 --> 00:40:38.299
And we have to
protect it, and we

00:40:38.300 --> 00:40:41.389
have to be generous
with the people who\'ve

00:40:41.390 --> 00:40:44.969
lost this very, very
basic privildge.

00:40:44.970 --> 00:40:47.179
I\'m reaching out to
the people in New York,

00:40:47.180 --> 00:40:50.419
who this could easily
be, and to remind you

00:40:50.420 --> 00:40:53.689
that we are all bound
to each other by water.

00:40:53.690 --> 00:40:55.399
It doesn\'t haul to boundaries.

00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:59.229
It moves simply and freely,
and it has to be respected.

00:40:59.230 --> 00:41:01.999
And that\'s why we\'re today
delivering water to Dimock.

00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:03.499
(CHEERING)

00:41:03.500 --> 00:41:04.500
Thank you.

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:12.129
- I started Water For Dimock
with the help of Water Defense,

00:41:12.130 --> 00:41:13.739
Mark Ruffalo the
actor, Josh Fox.

00:41:13.740 --> 00:41:14.740
They came in to help.

00:41:19.470 --> 00:41:21.559
We\'ll have one station
there for you to go.

00:41:21.560 --> 00:41:22.560
That\'s enough.

00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:27.459
We made sure that those water
buffaloes would stay full.

00:41:27.460 --> 00:41:28.460
- Here it comes.

00:41:30.890 --> 00:41:32.629
When you guys get
low, let us know.

00:41:32.630 --> 00:41:34.459
But we\'re going to start
a daily thing where

00:41:34.460 --> 00:41:36.129
people can come
and get topped off.

00:41:36.130 --> 00:41:36.860
I bought a truck.

00:41:36.861 --> 00:41:37.869
We insured it.

00:41:37.870 --> 00:41:40.469
We got a waterspout set
up We will provide them

00:41:40.470 --> 00:41:43.999
the water, because that\'s what
good neighbors do for people.

00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:44.800
- Thank you, guys.

00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:45.800
- No problem.

00:41:47.710 --> 00:41:49.729
- I\'m going to defer
to my children.

00:41:49.730 --> 00:41:51.650
I\'m going to pass them
my ancestral property.

00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:56.559
They\'re horrified, and
they\'ve asked me to stop it,

00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:57.560
and I will.

00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:00.600
- (SINGING) Keep me safe.

00:42:01.980 --> 00:42:03.350
Lie with me.

00:42:04.730 --> 00:42:05.480
Stay beside me.

00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:06.480
Don\'t go.

00:42:12.410 --> 00:42:13.410
Don\'t go.

00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:21.820
(APPLAUSE)

00:42:23.210 --> 00:42:24.420
I didn\'t know how bad it was.

00:42:26.410 --> 00:42:27.909
I really didn\'t
know how bad it was.

00:42:27.910 --> 00:42:31.259
I mean, when we heard
about this whole notion

00:42:31.260 --> 00:42:38.239
of hydraulic fracturing it just
sounded so ludicrous and insane

00:42:38.240 --> 00:42:38.850
10 years ago.

00:42:38.851 --> 00:42:42.909
I couldn\'t believe anyone could
possibly consider doing it.

00:42:42.910 --> 00:42:43.910
But here we are.

00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:48.209
It seems like the devil\'s got
a master plan for central New

00:42:48.210 --> 00:42:49.210
York.

00:42:51.030 --> 00:42:52.240
This song\'s called \"Texas\".

00:42:54.660 --> 00:42:55.660
And...

00:42:58.090 --> 00:43:01.620
it\'s about unbridled
pursuit of profit.

00:43:07.020 --> 00:43:10.950
(SINGING) Oh, gonna
get what\'s mine.

00:43:12.430 --> 00:43:16.760
And wild horses couldn\'t
take it from me.

00:43:20.530 --> 00:43:23.090
Papa says that I\'m
a golden child.

00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:29.830
And the whole world\'s
gonna light my feet.

00:43:34.080 --> 00:43:35.080
It\'s all coming to me.

00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:44.289
Going down picking
when it\'s harvest time.

00:43:44.290 --> 00:43:46.249
Gonna get my share.

00:43:46.250 --> 00:43:48.200
Gonna get what\'s mine for me.

00:43:54.870 --> 00:43:57.619
Sun is a-blazing down,
but I don\'t mind.

00:43:57.620 --> 00:44:02.110
I\'m picking, I\'m digging,
it\'s harvest time for me.

00:44:04.600 --> 00:44:07.849
When I get my little
lie on it, when

00:44:07.850 --> 00:44:12.090
I get my little mind on
it, you best believe.

00:44:16.580 --> 00:44:18.570
It\'s all coming to me.

00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:29.090
Papa built a fire,
and it burned for me.

00:44:32.590 --> 00:44:35.439
(APPLAUSE)

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:36.440
Thank you.

00:44:39.180 --> 00:44:40.849
- There was once
a beautiful forest

00:44:40.850 --> 00:44:43.279
that was home to many animals.

00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:45.709
One day, a fire started,
and the wind quickly

00:44:45.710 --> 00:44:48.559
whipped it into a terrible
conflagration that

00:44:48.560 --> 00:44:51.269
threatened to char
the entire forest.

00:44:51.270 --> 00:44:53.379
The animals ran
to the river bank

00:44:53.380 --> 00:44:55.999
where they were huddled
in misery and fear.

00:44:56.000 --> 00:44:58.039
Then one little
brave parrot began

00:44:58.040 --> 00:45:00.139
scooping river
water into its beak

00:45:00.140 --> 00:45:03.149
and flying into the
flames, back and forth,

00:45:03.150 --> 00:45:04.850
in an attempt to
extinguish the fire.

00:45:05.870 --> 00:45:08.829
Other animals said,
\'What are you doing?

00:45:08.830 --> 00:45:09.790
It\'s too late.

00:45:09.791 --> 00:45:11.549
Our home is going
to be destroyed,

00:45:11.550 --> 00:45:13.749
and there is nothing
we can do about it.

00:45:13.750 --> 00:45:16.049
It\'s inevitable.\"

00:45:16.050 --> 00:45:20.839
And the brave parrot said,
\"I am doing what I can.\"

00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:22.539
So it continued
flying back and forth,

00:45:22.540 --> 00:45:26.609
with beaks full of water, while
flames crowned in the treetops.

00:45:26.610 --> 00:45:28.899
And then the gods
looked down from the sky

00:45:28.900 --> 00:45:31.729
and said, \"Parrot,
what are you doing?

00:45:31.730 --> 00:45:33.729
You\'re going to burn up
and die, and the forest

00:45:33.730 --> 00:45:35.919
will be destroyed anyway.\"

00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:40.589
And the parrot said, \"I
don\'t need your advice.

00:45:40.590 --> 00:45:43.399
I need your help.\"

00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:45.449
And the gods were so
moved and inspired

00:45:45.450 --> 00:45:47.559
by the determined
actions of the parrot,

00:45:47.560 --> 00:45:50.629
and so ashamed of their own
passivity and defeatism,

00:45:50.630 --> 00:45:52.039
that they began to cry.

00:45:52.040 --> 00:45:54.399
And their tears
extinguished the fire.

00:45:54.400 --> 00:45:55.539
The end.

00:45:55.540 --> 00:45:59.810
(CHEERING)

00:46:03.130 --> 00:46:06.409
So if there are any potential
brave little parrots out there,

00:46:06.410 --> 00:46:08.179
this is your moment.

00:46:08.180 --> 00:46:11.509
Altogether we might just
change the course of Providence

00:46:11.510 --> 00:46:12.510
itself.

00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:13.760
Thank you.

00:46:13.761 --> 00:46:17.479
(CHEERING)

00:46:17.480 --> 00:46:22.209
- We are called to care for this
planet and to stop fracking.

00:46:22.210 --> 00:46:26.929
We are called to care for this
planet and care for the poor.

00:46:26.930 --> 00:46:30.750
We are called to be the leaders
who seek peace and justice.

00:46:31.860 --> 00:46:34.199
I met Dr. Martin Luther
King just five weeks

00:46:34.200 --> 00:46:35.320
before he was assassinated.

00:46:36.640 --> 00:46:39.169
Dr. King said, \"You
and I will have

00:46:39.170 --> 00:46:42.129
to repent in this
generation, not

00:46:42.130 --> 00:46:45.759
merely for the hateful words
and actions of bad people,

00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:48.539
but for the appalling
silence of good people.\"

00:46:48.540 --> 00:46:51.299
Let\'s walk in Dr. King\'s shoes.

00:46:51.300 --> 00:46:53.599
(CHEERING)

00:46:53.600 --> 00:46:56.039
Several years ago, I
was general secretary

00:46:56.040 --> 00:46:58.039
of the National
Council of Churches.

00:46:58.040 --> 00:47:02.509
Unfortunately, I think the
faith community has been absent

00:47:02.510 --> 00:47:03.510
in the conversation...

00:47:04.660 --> 00:47:06.799
environmental
conversations, the peace

00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:07.880
and justice conversations.

00:47:09.330 --> 00:47:12.529
What I would say to
religious leaders

00:47:12.530 --> 00:47:15.149
is, stand up and speak out.

00:47:15.150 --> 00:47:17.989
- If we\'re looking to
Congress to lead the way,

00:47:17.990 --> 00:47:19.809
it\'s probably not
going to happen.

00:47:19.810 --> 00:47:23.569
Why they do not see within their
hearts the moral issue of this

00:47:23.570 --> 00:47:26.799
and respond to that above
even their re-election,

00:47:26.800 --> 00:47:29.450
above all the moneyed
interests, is beyond me.

00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:32.380
- We need to get
engaged politically.

00:47:33.750 --> 00:47:37.969
We need to stop the influence
of money in politics.

00:47:37.970 --> 00:47:43.249
- The industry got this far by
telling a story in Washington

00:47:43.250 --> 00:47:45.629
about how somehow
fracking was going

00:47:45.630 --> 00:47:48.389
to give us cheap oil
and jobs and solve

00:47:48.390 --> 00:47:49.659
all these other problems.

00:47:49.660 --> 00:47:51.169
And what a lot of
people don\'t know

00:47:51.170 --> 00:47:54.529
is that story was backed up
with millions in campaign

00:47:54.530 --> 00:47:56.909
contributions and more
than a billion dollars

00:47:56.910 --> 00:47:59.439
spent on lobbying
across the country.

00:47:59.440 --> 00:48:02.679
- Common Cause filed a
report about deep pockets

00:48:02.680 --> 00:48:06.189
and the drilling
issue around fracking.

00:48:06.190 --> 00:48:09.389
It pointed out that
large corporations

00:48:09.390 --> 00:48:12.629
are willing to do almost
anything to buy politicians,

00:48:12.630 --> 00:48:15.519
to put money into campaigns.

00:48:15.520 --> 00:48:18.559
That money has influenced
the outcome of decisions.

00:48:18.560 --> 00:48:20.369
- If we don\'t fix some
of these core issues

00:48:20.370 --> 00:48:22.979
now around money and
politics, the debate

00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:25.190
will be won by the industry
before it\'s even started.

00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:33.829
- We have the three rivers here:
the Allegheny, the Monongahela,

00:48:33.830 --> 00:48:34.959
and Ohio.

00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.459
These rivers were contaminated
with trihalomethane as a result

00:48:38.460 --> 00:48:41.879
of dumping bromides... a
byproduct of the drilling...

00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:43.059
In our rivers.

00:48:43.060 --> 00:48:44.479
We did our due diligence.

00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:48.499
We enacted the first ban
ever of shale gas extraction

00:48:48.500 --> 00:48:49.870
by means of
hydraulic fracturing.

00:48:51.750 --> 00:48:53.509
- It\'s hugely
important that people

00:48:53.510 --> 00:48:55.679
get involved on the local level.

00:48:55.680 --> 00:48:58.989
If people really come together
and educate themselves

00:48:58.990 --> 00:49:03.999
and organize they can have a
huge impact on their own lives,

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:05.459
the character of
their communities,

00:49:05.460 --> 00:49:07.139
and really fight
back successfully

00:49:07.140 --> 00:49:08.579
against this industry.

00:49:08.580 --> 00:49:10.569
- We had no idea
when we signed leases

00:49:10.570 --> 00:49:12.939
that our wells
might be polluted.

00:49:12.940 --> 00:49:14.929
We had no idea when
we signed leases

00:49:14.930 --> 00:49:17.360
that our air would
be contaminated.

00:49:21.750 --> 00:49:23.709
- Good morning, kids.

00:49:23.710 --> 00:49:29.969
I\'ve been in this place
on this farm since 1985.

00:49:29.970 --> 00:49:31.450
I know you\'re hungry.

00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:33.920
It\'s good.

00:49:35.890 --> 00:49:41.549
It\'s really, really important
to me to treat the Earth kindly.

00:49:41.550 --> 00:49:43.229
Too many black flies, huh?

00:49:43.230 --> 00:49:43.730
Yeah.

00:49:43.731 --> 00:49:45.220
Too many black flies.

00:49:51.690 --> 00:49:53.969
- My background is in geology.

00:49:53.970 --> 00:49:56.799
And I worked for many years
in the area of groundwater

00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:57.800
pollution, actually.

00:49:59.700 --> 00:50:02.319
When the landman
came to our door,

00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.649
it was represented to
us as basically good

00:50:05.650 --> 00:50:07.760
old-fashioned conventional
well drilling.

00:50:09.980 --> 00:50:13.389
- He said, \"We\'re going to
drill a well in the ground,

00:50:13.390 --> 00:50:15.749
and then we\'re going
to clean up the area.

00:50:15.750 --> 00:50:17.169
We\'re going to go
away, and we\'ll

00:50:17.170 --> 00:50:20.229
leave you with a small
tank and a pipe coming up

00:50:20.230 --> 00:50:20.980
out of the ground.

00:50:20.981 --> 00:50:22.520
You\'ll just never
know we were here.\"

00:50:25.130 --> 00:50:28.049
- There was no mention
of hydrofracking,

00:50:28.050 --> 00:50:30.069
no mention of huge amount
of water being used,

00:50:30.070 --> 00:50:32.279
no mention of chemicals
being introduced.

00:50:32.280 --> 00:50:33.989
- It hasn\'t happened
in New York yet.

00:50:33.990 --> 00:50:37.400
We still are under a
de facto moratorium.

00:50:38.750 --> 00:50:42.409
The money had no interest
for me whatsoever.

00:50:42.410 --> 00:50:45.259
I said, I\'m just not interested.

00:50:45.260 --> 00:50:46.260
Go away.

00:50:47.370 --> 00:50:49.259
- I\'m an environmental
scientist.

00:50:49.260 --> 00:50:52.180
I should have been more
knowledgeable, but I wasn\'t.

00:50:53.220 --> 00:50:57.279
My husband and I
signed a gas lease.

00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:00.599
Half a year later, I became
aware of what fracking

00:51:00.600 --> 00:51:02.850
was all about, and I was
completely horrified.

00:51:06.830 --> 00:51:08.740
- The landman was persistent.

00:51:09.930 --> 00:51:12.619
He would call on the
phone repeatedly,

00:51:12.620 --> 00:51:17.609
letters in the mail, for
about seven or eight months.

00:51:17.610 --> 00:51:22.879
I didn\'t feel coerced
until that last time when

00:51:22.880 --> 00:51:23.880
he knocked on the door.

00:51:23.881 --> 00:51:26.499
And he said, \"OK, this is it.

00:51:26.500 --> 00:51:28.269
This is your last opportunity.

00:51:28.270 --> 00:51:30.309
Everybody else has signed.

00:51:30.310 --> 00:51:32.889
You want a say on what
happens on your land,

00:51:32.890 --> 00:51:35.069
you sign this lease.\"

00:51:35.070 --> 00:51:36.200
So I signed it.

00:51:37.550 --> 00:51:43.699
- The law in New York allows
compulsory integration.

00:51:43.700 --> 00:51:48.609
They have to have gas lease
on 60% of 600 or so acres.

00:51:48.610 --> 00:51:53.709
And the other 40% would be
subject to forced pooling.

00:51:53.710 --> 00:51:55.549
Basically what
that\'s doing is it\'s

00:51:55.550 --> 00:51:59.299
giving the right of eminent
domain to the gas companies.

00:51:59.300 --> 00:52:01.110
That seems so wrong.

00:52:02.490 --> 00:52:05.679
- After I signed the lease,
the landman disappeared.

00:52:05.680 --> 00:52:07.279
He got what he wanted.

00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:11.789
And I couldn\'t believe
that I had allowed myself

00:52:11.790 --> 00:52:14.390
to be in a position
of raping my land.

00:52:16.260 --> 00:52:17.410
I was part of that.

00:52:18.990 --> 00:52:19.990
Horrible.

00:52:22.170 --> 00:52:26.009
- I formed this organization
called Fleased for those of us

00:52:26.010 --> 00:52:29.139
who basically got taken
by the gas companies.

00:52:29.140 --> 00:52:31.599
We had no idea that
we would no longer

00:52:31.600 --> 00:52:34.399
be able to get mortgages
on our property.

00:52:34.400 --> 00:52:36.279
We had no idea when
we signed leases

00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.370
that we could no longer
get homeowner\'s insurance.

00:52:39.550 --> 00:52:43.299
What we\'ve been doing is really
trying to educate our members,

00:52:43.300 --> 00:52:47.219
educate ourselves, on the kinds
of impact we\'re worried about.

00:52:47.220 --> 00:52:49.159
We are sorry we signed.

00:52:49.160 --> 00:52:51.089
And we are angry.

00:52:51.090 --> 00:52:53.840
(CHEERING)

00:52:55.220 --> 00:52:56.829
- After I signed my lease...

00:52:56.830 --> 00:52:59.769
- I wanted to talk about
the gas conversion.

00:52:59.770 --> 00:53:02.359
- there were other people
who were concerned about

00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.869
the possibilities of drilling
coming into this area.

00:53:05.870 --> 00:53:07.759
We talked about, what do we do?

00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:09.600
How can we help ourselves?

00:53:10.830 --> 00:53:13.929
That was the start of the Dryden
Resource Awareness Coalition.

00:53:13.930 --> 00:53:14.430
- Hi.

00:53:14.430 --> 00:53:14.690
How are you?

00:53:14.690 --> 00:53:15.190
- Good.

00:53:15.190 --> 00:53:16.010
How are you?

00:53:16.011 --> 00:53:18.389
- We decided that we
could do a petition

00:53:18.390 --> 00:53:21.659
to ban this heavy
industry from Dryden.

00:53:21.660 --> 00:53:22.550
- Thank you so much.

00:53:22.550 --> 00:53:22.990
- Thanks a lot.

00:53:22.990 --> 00:53:23.430
- Have a great day.

00:53:23.430 --> 00:53:24.140
- You too.

00:53:24.141 --> 00:53:26.769
- They went to
thousands of doors

00:53:26.770 --> 00:53:29.550
to see what people were
thinking about drilling.

00:53:30.570 --> 00:53:33.939
And they got thousands of
signatures asking the Town

00:53:33.940 --> 00:53:35.960
Board to protect them.

00:53:37.250 --> 00:53:40.779
- A majority of people
said, \"This is great.

00:53:40.780 --> 00:53:42.929
Let me sign it right away.\"

00:53:42.930 --> 00:53:44.839
A few people said,
\"You know, I just

00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:46.809
don\'t have enough information.\"

00:53:46.810 --> 00:53:51.009
A smaller number of people said,
\"No, I don\'t want to sign that.

00:53:51.010 --> 00:53:54.679
I think we should have
the drillers come in.\"

00:53:54.680 --> 00:53:56.279
We collected our signatures.

00:53:56.280 --> 00:53:59.809
And we presented them
to the Town Board.

00:53:59.810 --> 00:54:00.820
What passed?

00:54:02.380 --> 00:54:05.150
This is not allowed
by our zoning.

00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:09.589
- The importance of
towns like Dryden

00:54:09.590 --> 00:54:13.220
is that people can actually take
on the big industry and win.

00:54:17.640 --> 00:54:20.209
- When the industry says
that there\'s no harm done,

00:54:20.210 --> 00:54:22.429
actually it\'s not
a true statement.

00:54:22.430 --> 00:54:25.579
Physicians who have seen
patients from these fracking

00:54:25.580 --> 00:54:30.639
areas have reported skin rashes,
have reported nausea, vomiting.

00:54:30.640 --> 00:54:35.419
- What we see is a pattern
emerging of three different

00:54:35.420 --> 00:54:38.309
organ systems being most
commonly represented,

00:54:38.310 --> 00:54:42.689
mainly respiratory symptoms;
so shortness of breath,

00:54:42.690 --> 00:54:45.529
gastrointestinal symptoms,
abdominal pain, cramping,

00:54:45.530 --> 00:54:49.319
nausea, vomiting, and then what
we would call dermatological...

00:54:49.320 --> 00:54:50.320
Skin symptoms.

00:54:57.120 --> 00:54:58.410
- My name is Joseph Giovannini.

00:55:00.680 --> 00:55:04.400
I have lived in this
spot for 30 years.

00:55:06.790 --> 00:55:09.080
I\'m a third generation
stonemason by trade.

00:55:10.500 --> 00:55:12.690
My father and I
built this house.

00:55:13.810 --> 00:55:17.259
It took us three years to get
it roughed in and another year

00:55:17.260 --> 00:55:18.799
to finish it.

00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:21.470
There\'s a lot of stonework here,
and that\'s what he and I loved.

00:55:24.270 --> 00:55:27.599
The well site went
in six years ago.

00:55:27.600 --> 00:55:30.290
And at that point in time,
my water became contaminated.

00:55:31.380 --> 00:55:34.799
They changed the landscape, so
all the runoff from the well

00:55:34.800 --> 00:55:37.850
site itself goes directly
into my basement.

00:55:40.210 --> 00:55:46.020
The well site is 391 feet
directly behind my house.

00:55:47.070 --> 00:55:51.679
After about two years,
they built a refinery

00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:55.219
on this side of me
at a short distance.

00:55:55.220 --> 00:56:00.269
I started getting cold,
numb, sinus problems,

00:56:00.270 --> 00:56:07.319
metal taste in the mouth,
dizziness once in a while.

00:56:07.320 --> 00:56:11.029
In order to keep all the
toxins out of my house,

00:56:11.030 --> 00:56:12.710
I had to completely
seal the windows.

00:56:15.710 --> 00:56:19.299
About one year after the
plant got operational,

00:56:19.300 --> 00:56:22.419
I had a knockdown seizure.

00:56:22.420 --> 00:56:30.420
They told me that
I have two masses,

00:56:31.170 --> 00:56:34.339
small masses on this
side of my head.

00:56:34.340 --> 00:56:36.199
One is in towards the front.

00:56:36.200 --> 00:56:38.009
One is back here.

00:56:38.010 --> 00:56:42.900
And that I had two small
masses in this lung.

00:56:48.030 --> 00:56:52.769
My home was appraised
at $230,000.

00:56:52.770 --> 00:56:55.270
And I\'m about to walk
away with nothing.

00:56:57.730 --> 00:57:02.530
I planned to live to
be 80 and die here.

00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:06.479
- These are not
transient people.

00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:09.259
These are people who have lived
on this land for generations.

00:57:09.260 --> 00:57:11.609
And they had every
intention to live

00:57:11.610 --> 00:57:13.669
on this land for
generations to come.

00:57:13.670 --> 00:57:15.929
My name is Raina Rippel,
I am the director

00:57:15.930 --> 00:57:18.530
of the Southwest Pennsylvania
Environmental Health Project.

00:57:20.460 --> 00:57:25.199
Our primary objective is to
treat people and assist people

00:57:25.200 --> 00:57:27.319
who feel their health has
been or could be impacted

00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:29.649
by natural gas
drilling activities.

00:57:29.650 --> 00:57:31.259
This is not just about research.

00:57:31.260 --> 00:57:35.649
This is not just about some
idea out there of energy

00:57:35.650 --> 00:57:37.599
and jobs and all these
fantastic things.

00:57:37.600 --> 00:57:40.669
But these people are suffering
right now from serious

00:57:40.670 --> 00:57:42.949
quality-of-life issues
if nothing else,

00:57:42.950 --> 00:57:45.369
serious quality-of-life issues.

00:57:45.370 --> 00:57:48.659
If I as a mom am lying awake at
night worrying about my child

00:57:48.660 --> 00:57:52.769
every night, I\'m not
in the best shape.

00:57:52.770 --> 00:57:56.739
If I\'m kept awake 24/7 by
noise and light pollution,

00:57:56.740 --> 00:57:59.280
and I\'m worrying about my
child, and my child is sick?

00:58:01.100 --> 00:58:02.400
I\'m not in good health.

00:58:05.740 --> 00:58:09.519
- Back in 2005, we started
looking at this farm.

00:58:09.520 --> 00:58:15.459
And we thought it was a really
nice place to raise our kids.

00:58:15.460 --> 00:58:17.459
We did have a deed
search, and it come up

00:58:17.460 --> 00:58:19.319
there was no lease on it.

00:58:19.320 --> 00:58:22.329
We bought the place, and
in comes the bulldozers.

00:58:22.330 --> 00:58:24.389
They said, \"Well,
we own the gas.

00:58:24.390 --> 00:58:26.119
You can\'t stop us.\"

00:58:26.120 --> 00:58:29.369
Pretty much, \"Sit back
and enjoy the ride.\"

00:58:29.370 --> 00:58:31.699
- It went from one well to
two wells to three wells,

00:58:31.700 --> 00:58:32.700
and now to five wells.

00:58:34.140 --> 00:58:35.960
I noticed there
were several leaks.

00:58:36.380 --> 00:58:38.720
The material that comes out
of the well is so corrosive.

00:58:39.890 --> 00:58:41.969
The one well has leaked
ever since they put it in,

00:58:41.970 --> 00:58:43.139
the casing has been leaking.

00:58:43.140 --> 00:58:45.309
It got to be so bad on the
pad that that well is on,

00:58:45.310 --> 00:58:46.889
you couldn\'t stand
to breathe near it.

00:58:46.890 --> 00:58:49.809
You would go and work for 15
minutes around the equipment

00:58:49.810 --> 00:58:51.899
down there, and you had
to come back to the house.

00:58:51.900 --> 00:58:52.900
You\'d be deathly sick.

00:58:53.810 --> 00:58:54.810
We had our water tested.

00:58:54.811 --> 00:58:57.039
It had strontium and
barium and manganese

00:58:57.040 --> 00:59:00.239
and a list of chemicals I
can\'t pronounce for you.

00:59:00.240 --> 00:59:02.529
The DEP said it could
still be drinkable,

00:59:02.530 --> 00:59:03.729
but it had to be filtered.

00:59:03.730 --> 00:59:06.329
But I wasn\'t letting my
kids drink that stuff.

00:59:06.330 --> 00:59:08.509
- My four-year-old
gets the rashes,

00:59:08.510 --> 00:59:11.519
and he gets crippling
stomach pains.

00:59:11.520 --> 00:59:14.169
And the hardest thing is,
they don\'t know what it is.

00:59:14.170 --> 00:59:17.900
They tested him for leukemia,
and that came back negative.

00:59:20.270 --> 00:59:23.979
And all you can do is hold
him till he stops screaming.

00:59:23.980 --> 00:59:28.829
- What you see happening to
people whose kids are impacted,

00:59:28.830 --> 00:59:30.839
they don\'t know what\'s going on.

00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:32.899
They do not know
what\'s going on.

00:59:32.900 --> 00:59:36.139
A lot of times they feel
like they\'re not believed.

00:59:36.140 --> 00:59:39.010
And my message for
you is, believe it.

00:59:40.030 --> 00:59:41.219
Believe it.

00:59:41.220 --> 00:59:44.120
(APPLAUSE)

00:59:47.500 --> 00:59:50.109
- The jobs that are being
produced in the gas drilling

00:59:50.110 --> 00:59:53.659
industry are very
dangerous jobs.

00:59:53.660 --> 00:59:55.749
The workers themselves
are going to be exposed

00:59:55.750 --> 00:59:59.010
to a whole variety of different
chemicals and air pollution.

01:00:02.990 --> 01:00:04.530
- Cutting off the
circulation to you.

01:00:07.260 --> 01:00:09.259
Black and blue down in there.

01:00:09.260 --> 01:00:10.430
Same thing with the fingers.

01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:12.840
Extremely painful.

01:00:14.470 --> 01:00:16.629
- One of your jobs was to
actually go into the tanks

01:00:16.630 --> 01:00:17.370
and clean them?

01:00:17.370 --> 01:00:18.190
- Yeah.

01:00:18.191 --> 01:00:21.080
They\'d hook a rope
to you and a harness.

01:00:23.100 --> 01:00:25.279
They give you a pressure hose.

01:00:25.280 --> 01:00:27.150
And you start washing
the walls down.

01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:30.339
They don\'t tell you
what\'s in there.

01:00:30.340 --> 01:00:33.619
Just \"Go clean out the tank.\"

01:00:33.620 --> 01:00:38.619
Now since I got exposed,
I\'ve got real bad migraine,

01:00:38.620 --> 01:00:42.249
stomach pains,
shortness of breath.

01:00:42.250 --> 01:00:44.039
I\'ve seen numerous doctors.

01:00:44.040 --> 01:00:46.839
I think there\'s about 42 in all.

01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:48.779
Nobody seems to know what it is.

01:00:48.780 --> 01:00:50.170
Nobody could tell
you what it is.

01:00:54.630 --> 01:00:57.049
All you do now is
sit around and wonder

01:00:57.050 --> 01:00:58.970
how long you\'ve got to
live with this crap.

01:01:00.620 --> 01:01:01.879
Your home\'s nothing.

01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:03.239
Your food\'s nothing.

01:01:03.240 --> 01:01:04.240
Your water\'s nothing.

01:01:05.160 --> 01:01:06.160
You\'re expendable...

01:01:08.670 --> 01:01:10.070
as you can see.

01:01:11.840 --> 01:01:14.030
All I\'m doing is
waiting to die I guess.

01:01:16.490 --> 01:01:20.430
(MUSIC PLAYING)

01:01:25.350 --> 01:01:27.579
- I\'m Mark Jacobson,
I\'m a professor

01:01:27.580 --> 01:01:29.169
of civil and
environmental engineering

01:01:29.170 --> 01:01:30.170
at Stanford University.

01:01:31.370 --> 01:01:33.859
Natural gas is claimed
to be a bridge fuel

01:01:33.860 --> 01:01:37.849
between current fossil fuels
and clean renewable energy.

01:01:37.850 --> 01:01:39.579
However, this is not the case.

01:01:39.580 --> 01:01:42.539
It actually warms the planet,
causes more global warming

01:01:42.540 --> 01:01:44.639
per unit energy
generated than coal.

01:01:44.640 --> 01:01:46.499
So natural gas is
not a bridge fuel.

01:01:46.500 --> 01:01:49.179
It\'s really a field that just
perpetuates the fossil fuel

01:01:49.180 --> 01:01:50.679
cycle that we\'re in.

01:01:50.680 --> 01:01:52.389
And there\'s no need
for it, because we

01:01:52.390 --> 01:01:56.079
have plenty of wind and
water and sunlight to power

01:01:56.080 --> 01:01:59.619
the entire world for all
purposes many times over right

01:01:59.620 --> 01:02:00.620
now, today.

01:02:02.930 --> 01:02:06.179
We found that it was
technically feasible to re-power

01:02:06.180 --> 01:02:08.209
the entire world
for all purposes

01:02:08.210 --> 01:02:10.449
with wind, water, and sunlight.

01:02:10.450 --> 01:02:12.449
There\'s no technical
barrier and not

01:02:12.450 --> 01:02:15.149
even an economic
barrier to doing it.

01:02:15.150 --> 01:02:17.029
The only barriers
at this point are

01:02:17.030 --> 01:02:18.430
social and political barriers.

01:02:20.290 --> 01:02:24.780
(CHATTER)

01:02:27.770 --> 01:02:31.759
- I represent Concerned Health
Professionals of New York

01:02:31.760 --> 01:02:33.259
to bring a message
to the governor,

01:02:33.260 --> 01:02:37.749
to say that an industry
that has no boundaries, who

01:02:37.750 --> 01:02:43.989
wants to use our land as its
factory floor, an industry that

01:02:43.990 --> 01:02:47.229
will turn the Earth inside
out, we are here to say:

01:02:47.230 --> 01:02:48.729
That is our home.

01:02:48.730 --> 01:02:51.719
That\'s our air and our
water and our food.

01:02:51.720 --> 01:02:55.999
And we will defend this
land, this movement of ours.

01:02:56.000 --> 01:02:59.599
This is our Greensboro lunch
counter, the Marcellus shale.

01:02:59.600 --> 01:03:01.459
This is our Stonewall riot.

01:03:01.460 --> 01:03:04.899
This is our Seneca
Falls Convention.

01:03:04.900 --> 01:03:06.889
This is our human
rights movement.

01:03:06.890 --> 01:03:09.869
And we will not be silent,
and we will not sit down.

01:03:09.870 --> 01:03:11.859
- Ban fracking now!

01:03:11.860 --> 01:03:14.349
Ban fracking now!

01:03:14.350 --> 01:03:15.840
Ban fracking now!

01:03:20.340 --> 01:03:22.379
- This is a human
experiment that I

01:03:22.380 --> 01:03:24.289
don\'t think we should run.

01:03:24.290 --> 01:03:29.119
On March 18, 2013, I and the
others with whom I linked arms

01:03:29.120 --> 01:03:31.989
temporarily blocked a
truck carrying a drill head

01:03:31.990 --> 01:03:33.549
from going where
it wanted to go.

01:03:33.550 --> 01:03:37.049
- If you could just allow the
truck out, we\'d appreciate it.

01:03:37.050 --> 01:03:37.930
- You broke the law.

01:03:37.931 --> 01:03:39.459
You knew you were
breaking the law.

01:03:39.460 --> 01:03:41.759
What did you hope would happen?

01:03:41.760 --> 01:03:44.909
- The 12 of us
blocked a driveway

01:03:44.910 --> 01:03:49.449
that a company is using
to prepare abandoned salt

01:03:49.450 --> 01:03:52.369
caverns that are underneath
the west bank of Seneca

01:03:52.370 --> 01:03:57.989
Lake for the storage of
compressed hydrocarbon gases

01:03:57.990 --> 01:04:01.930
that are the byproducts of
fracking for natural gas.

01:04:03.120 --> 01:04:06.919
I believe, as do many of my
colleagues in the sciences,

01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:11.779
that it\'s not safe to
compress explosive gases

01:04:11.780 --> 01:04:14.989
and store them underneath
and beside a lake

01:04:14.990 --> 01:04:20.109
that serves as the drinking
water for 100,000 people.

01:04:20.110 --> 01:04:24.419
This is in violation of what I
consider as the sacred compact

01:04:24.420 --> 01:04:27.689
that I have with my children,
which is to insert myself

01:04:27.690 --> 01:04:30.779
between the body of my
child and the danger

01:04:30.780 --> 01:04:31.950
to protect them from harm.

01:04:37.300 --> 01:04:41.670
(CHEERING)

01:04:47.500 --> 01:04:48.559
- So you may go in.

01:04:48.560 --> 01:04:49.060
- Thank you.

01:04:49.061 --> 01:04:50.279
- You\'re welcome.

01:04:50.280 --> 01:04:50.780
You can\'t.

01:04:50.780 --> 01:04:51.780
Sorry.

01:05:02.720 --> 01:05:07.199
(APPLAUSE)

01:05:07.200 --> 01:05:08.819
- Go out and fight.

01:05:08.820 --> 01:05:10.289
Write letters to the editor.

01:05:10.290 --> 01:05:11.280
Keep it up.

01:05:11.281 --> 01:05:14.710
(APPLAUSE)

01:05:19.640 --> 01:05:21.689
Taking on the oil
and gas industry

01:05:21.690 --> 01:05:23.409
requires a lot of sacrifices.

01:05:23.410 --> 01:05:26.040
(APPLAUSE)

01:05:27.080 --> 01:05:30.829
I grew up being told if
there are signs of atrocity,

01:05:30.830 --> 01:05:33.409
you identify them
and you take action.

01:05:33.410 --> 01:05:35.269
You don\'t pretend that
nothing\'s going on.

01:05:35.270 --> 01:05:38.159
You don\'t sit back and wonder,
can you win this or not?

01:05:38.160 --> 01:05:39.730
You simply do the right thing.

01:05:52.490 --> 01:05:57.639
- The exemptions from all the
major federal environmental

01:05:57.640 --> 01:06:00.220
regulations were put
in place in Washington.

01:06:01.710 --> 01:06:04.209
We are the people that elect
those representatives that

01:06:04.210 --> 01:06:05.990
allow them to
pollute with abandon.

01:06:07.110 --> 01:06:08.919
We have to speak
to those officials

01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:11.339
and say, \"Stop this
attack on America.\"

01:06:11.340 --> 01:06:14.619
We\'re calling for a national
moratorium on fracking.

01:06:14.620 --> 01:06:17.269
Unless they can figure
out a way to do it safely,

01:06:17.270 --> 01:06:18.660
it needs to stop.

01:06:20.050 --> 01:06:24.179
- There is about 75%
less ice in the Arctic

01:06:24.180 --> 01:06:27.109
than there was 40 years ago.

01:06:27.110 --> 01:06:30.099
You want to know how the
fossil fuel industry responds

01:06:30.100 --> 01:06:33.399
to a planetary
emergency like that?

01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:36.329
Their idea is, let\'s
go up to the Arctic

01:06:36.330 --> 01:06:37.970
and drill for some more oil.

01:06:39.040 --> 01:06:40.449
- We have no time to waste.

01:06:40.450 --> 01:06:43.090
We need to change the
energy infrastructure now.

01:06:46.130 --> 01:06:47.870
- Our country is
at a crossroads.

01:06:49.080 --> 01:06:53.539
The choices we make with
respect to natural gas

01:06:53.540 --> 01:06:55.959
will set the course
of energy development

01:06:55.960 --> 01:06:59.139
and environmental policies
for the first half

01:06:59.140 --> 01:07:02.320
of the 21st century
and hopefully longer.

01:07:03.760 --> 01:07:06.779
Do we repeat the
mistakes of the past?

01:07:06.780 --> 01:07:09.040
Or do we learn from them?

01:07:11.540 --> 01:07:14.399
- New Yorkers, be
very, very strong

01:07:14.400 --> 01:07:16.840
in your resistance to this
awful fracking industry.

01:07:19.750 --> 01:07:22.250
He who does not hope to
win has already lost.

01:07:25.950 --> 01:07:29.759
- If we can shift investments
into renewable sources,

01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.219
we are going to be far more
likely to move in the direction

01:07:32.220 --> 01:07:33.249
that we want to go.

01:07:33.250 --> 01:07:35.799
- This is America.

01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:36.770
Right?

01:07:36.771 --> 01:07:39.199
And we are patriots.

01:07:39.200 --> 01:07:43.929
This is the land of the free
and the home of the brave.

01:07:43.930 --> 01:07:46.279
And those words mean something.

01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:47.599
(CHEERING)

01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:51.259
- If Gandhi could challenge
the British empire for salt,

01:07:51.260 --> 01:07:53.619
we are going to challenge
these corporations to protect

01:07:53.620 --> 01:07:54.620
our water.

01:07:57.270 --> 01:08:00.869
- We can move forward with a
very toxic form of fossil fuel

01:08:00.870 --> 01:08:03.209
extraction, or we
can blaze a trail

01:08:03.210 --> 01:08:04.500
to a different kind of future.

01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:07.529
- We as a nation have done this.

01:08:07.530 --> 01:08:09.589
We had fought for civil rights.

01:08:09.590 --> 01:08:11.489
We have fought for
women\'s rights.

01:08:11.490 --> 01:08:14.480
We have fought against
incalculable odds.

01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:19.049
We\'re up against the largest
international corporations,

01:08:19.050 --> 01:08:21.469
so we can\'t underestimate
what we have to do.

01:08:21.470 --> 01:08:25.199
But the fact is we\'ve done it
in the past, we can do it now.

01:08:25.200 --> 01:08:26.200
We must do it.

01:08:28.230 --> 01:08:31.579
(SINGING) Big old
change a-coming,

01:08:31.580 --> 01:08:36.359
rolling through the
land, marching feet

01:08:36.360 --> 01:08:40.780
a-drumming to beat the band.

01:08:42.190 --> 01:08:48.069
Power comes from caring,
a simple helping hand,

01:08:48.070 --> 01:08:53.770
for the sanctity of living
no matter where you stand.

01:08:56.660 --> 01:08:59.849
I see a groundswell rising.

01:08:59.850 --> 01:09:03.239
It\'s the beating of my heart.

01:09:03.240 --> 01:09:07.119
There can be no
compromising when

01:09:07.120 --> 01:09:10.209
we\'re called to do our part.

01:09:10.210 --> 01:09:13.559
I feel the groundswell growing.

01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:14.999
It\'s only right.

01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:20.389
It\'s only fair, for the
dignity of all of us

01:09:20.390 --> 01:09:24.720
and this planet that we share.

01:09:26.160 --> 01:09:28.090
(SINGING) Groundswell rising.

01:09:30.970 --> 01:09:37.879
(SINGING) Everybody\'s children
to them we pass the torch.

01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:41.039
Will we shine the
light of giving,

01:09:41.040 --> 01:09:43.919
or will the fertile
fields be scorched?

01:09:43.920 --> 01:09:50.100
And do you hear that baby
crying, begging for a drink?

01:09:51.130 --> 01:09:53.450
Will we say it\'s too expensive?

01:09:54.590 --> 01:09:57.840
Cause it\'s owned
by corporate ink.

01:10:00.220 --> 01:10:02.899
I see a groundswell rising.

01:10:02.900 --> 01:10:05.280
It\'s the beating of my heart.

01:10:06.760 --> 01:10:10.419
There can be no
compromising when

01:10:10.420 --> 01:10:13.319
we\'re called to do our part.

01:10:13.320 --> 01:10:17.209
I feel a groundswell rolling.

01:10:17.210 --> 01:10:18.539
It\'s only right.

01:10:18.540 --> 01:10:23.889
It\'s only fair, for the
dignity of all of us

01:10:23.890 --> 01:10:29.289
and this planet that we share.

01:10:29.290 --> 01:10:31.749
(SINGING) Groundswell rising.

01:10:31.750 --> 01:10:35.070
(SINGING) We hear the
groundswell rising.

01:10:36.370 --> 01:10:38.470
(SINGING) Groundswell rising.

01:10:39.970 --> 01:10:42.969
(SINGING) It\'s the
groundswell rising.

01:10:42.970 --> 01:10:44.769
(SINGING) Groundswell rising.

01:10:44.770 --> 01:10:49.920
(SINGING) It\'s the ground,
groundswell rising.