A documentary called "Gasland" that premieres Monday night on HBO is a critical look at the natural gas drilling boom that's happening across the country, including western Pennsylvania.
Team 4 investigator Jim Parsons said the film is airing in the midst of a political firestorm in Pennsylvania that was sparked by two recent natural gas drilling accidents in the region.
On June 7, drillers hit a pocket of methane at a Marcellus Shale gas well in West Virginia, touching off an explosion and sending seven workers to hospitals with burns.
On June 3, a Marcellus well that was being drilled in Clearfield County, Pa., suffered a blowout and spewed 35,000 gallons of gas and wastewater into the sky.
(Click to read the entire article)
0 comments:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)