Josh Fox narrates his reception of a letter in May, 2008, from a natural gas company offering to lease his family’s land in Milanville, Pennsylvania for $100,000 to drill for gas. Fox then set out to see how communities are being affected in the west where a natural gas drilling boom has been underway for the last decade. He spent time with citizens in their homes and on their land as they relayed their stories of natural gas drilling in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Texas, among others. He spoke with residents who have experienced a variety of chronic health problems directly traceable to contamination of their air, of their water wells or of surface water.
"Gasland" is also the fulfillment of the director’s dream. On the other side of the Atlantic, the mobilization in the Ardèche in France in 2011 against the giant gas and fracking projects was greatly facilitated by the free and massive distribution of "Gasland"!