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Risky Business – Coal seam gas the new Superpower?

Documentary.net staff — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:50:27 +0000

Some of the world’s largest energy giants are moving into eastern Australia and investing billions of dollars to exploit coal seam gas reserves so vast they could rewrite the world’s energy map. Despite generating massive amounts of revenue and creating thousands of new jobs, they are being met by a groundswell of public protest and a rising chorus of concern about the long-term impacts of coal seam gas extraction on the nation’s health, environment and land. A few years ago hardly anyone in Australia had even heard of coal seam gas, now the industry finds itself under intense public scrutiny as it plans to drill thousands of new gas wells a year – many of them under farms and rural communities in the middle of the nation’s agricultural heartland. As Australian farmers face the prospect of being forced by law to allow energy companies to drill for gas on their land, property owners and greenies are uniting in a grassroots protest movement to fight what some people are calling ‘the greatest environmental battle in Australia’s history’. Coal seam gas could make Australia an energy superpower, but at what price to the nation’s health, environment and land?

The Sky is Pink – Anti-Fracking Film by Gasland’s Josh Fox

Documentary.net staff — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:27:42 +0000

An emergency short film from Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND addressing the urgent crisis of drilling and fracking in New York state. What color will the sky have in NY?

Exploring the Deep 1 – Life under the Sea

Documentary.net staff — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:59:21 +0000

Heiko Sahling is a biologist and deep sea geoscientist at the MARUM Research Center. The area he studies is in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Pakistan. There, at depths down to 3,000 meters, something fascinating is happening. Natural gas is emerging from the sea bed, to produce a surreal world of millions of tiny bubbles, which has already spurred the fancy of science fiction authors. In these exotic surroundings, the scientist has discovered both new animal species and communities and new geological truths. But the main questions that drive him are concerned with the methane gas emitted here. How much is emitted, how does it affect the biological world of the deep sea, and how much reaches the surface to enter the atmosphere? That is also relevant to climate researchers, because methane is a major greenhouse gas that increases global warming. Heiko Sahling takes Tomorrow Today viewers on an expedition on the METEOR research vessel. He tells us about life on board, about burning ice and about organisms that no one has seen before.