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Sandy M. (BritFlickFan)
Reviewed on 6/10/2024...

Writer/director Josh Fox didn't set out to make a documentary about the implications of natural gas fracking on the water wells of hapless residents living nearby until a lease agreement for the right to frack on his Pennsylvania property landed in his own mailbox. His understandable concern led him to a neighboring community already in the midst of a fracking water crisis with numerous resident's wells contaminated by carcinogenic chemicals, flammable gases and toxic metals. Alarmed, Fox attempts to gather additional information by reaching out to various industry representatives and political officeholders only to be stonewalled at every turn. He then goes on his own fact-finding mission, traveling across the country interviewing residents with their own horror stories to tell about the environmental implications of the fracking process. A sobering introduction to the side effects of fracking technology.