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 Part II covers a lot of the same ground as the Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated original, as Fox takes his banjo and camera on the road again to interview residents who say their air and water were contaminated by drilling. Beleaguered homeowners demonstrate how they can light their methane-laced tap water on fire ― same as in Gasland ― though the pyrotechnics in Part II are more spectacular.

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Of course, the industry doesn t see it that way.  about fracking, the technique that s allowed drilling companies to extract huge volumes of natural gas from rock formations deep underground.

 The real reason that shale development has expanded is not because of some nefarious plot on the part of industry leaders wearing black robes, writes Steve Everley of Energy In Depth, an industry-funded PR group. Rather, it s because people across the United States have recognized that there are massive environmental and economic benefits to be reaped. Both political parties are pushing for increased responsible natural gas production, and it s because of the facts, not because they ve been captured by Corporate America. 

Attitudes and positions about fracking have only hardened since the original Gasland. Anti-drilling activists and Big Gas tend to view the other with profound distrust, and there is little common ground.

But the reality is more complicated than either side would probably care to admit.

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Landowners have become overnight millionaires, businesses catering to the gas industry have boomed and cheap gas has lowered utility bills. Some climate scientists say the rapid conversion of coal-fired power plants to natural gas has helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is a side of the shale gas revolution that Gasland Part II ignores.

Yet it s also true that drilling has contaminated residential water wells and brought incredible truck traffic to rural roads never designed to handle it. Some residents have complained about underhanded industry leasing tactics; others assert that gas drilling has made them sick.

The industry s typical response? Gloss over problems or deny them outright.

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 I don t see a middle ground. What we re talking about here is a force of people who are trying desperately to change the world, and a fossil fuel industry that is trying desperately to keep ruling it. I don t know what a middle ground would be, Fox said.

Beyond Gasland Part II, the filmmaker is working on a short documentary about what he calls an epidemic of illness among gas industry workers. Longer term, he said, he intends to move on to broader issues of climate and sustainability.

And then there s that meeting with the president.

 I m hoping for a call one of these days, Fox said.</html>