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!!! FREE movie 'GASLAND' !!!
Date: Thu November 17 - 2011
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Nomads (Base Backpackers) - Nelly Bay
Part travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part showdown, GasLand is a compelling and emotional first-person story of discovery and ultimately, empowerment. Rough-hewn yet poetic, the film is a desperate plea for scrutiny of the gas mining industry - a powerful industry that has now turned its eyes on a new, massive and (for now) largely unexplored territory: Australia. In Australia, concerns about coal seam gas extraction relate not just to the contribution of escaping methane to climate change (methane is a greenhouse gas 20+ times worse than CO?), the process of ‘fracking’ (the high pressure injection of water and a myriad of chemicals into the coal seam in order to fracture the seam and release the gas), and the vast quantities of salt water occurring as a by-product of the CSG process, but also to the potential for damage to our health, pollution of artesian water, and the acquisition of prime farming land by the CSG industry. Brought to you by Magnetic Island Nature Care Association (MINCA). FREE - but donations welcome! Visit GasLand for more info on the movie and the movement.