in Josh Fox’s deliberately misleading 2010 “documentary” Gasland, but the film conveniently neglected to add that Americans in areas around the country have been able to ignite the water from their indoor plumbing since long before fracking was even a thing. What’s more, even the zealous and ever-vigilant bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency, undoubtedly with their ears constantly on the ground for ways to link up hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination, have so far repeatedly failed to do so based on any kind of actual scientific evidence.
So what are you going to do when the facts aren't on your side?
Fake it!
Fox’s new film, Gasland Part II, features a powerful scene showing a Texas landowner lighting the contents of a garden hose on fire. The incident is presented as evidence of water contamination from a nearby hydraulic fracturing operation.
According to a Texas court, the scene was actually a hoax devised by a Texas environmental activist engaged in a prolonged battle with a local gas company to falsely inflate the supposed dangers of the oil and gas extraction technique, also known as fracking. …
Texas’ 43rd Judicial District Court found in February 2012 that Steven Lipsky, “under the advice or direction” of Texas environmental activist Alisa Rich, “intentionally attach[ed] a garden hose to a gas vent—not a water line” and lit its contents on fire.
“This demonstration was not done for scientific study but to provide local and national news media a deceptive video, calculated to alarm the public into believing the water was burning,” the court found in response to a defamation complaint brought by Range Resources, the company conducting hydraulic fracturing operations in the area, against Lipsky and his wife.
You wouldn't actually believe anything that comes out of Hollywood anyway, would you?
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