fracking industry has one man and one man alone to thank for its recent success i'll tell you who that man is in tonight's detail. in screw news have you paid any attention at all the american media's coverage of this year's winter olympics in sochi russia you might have noticed something very interesting very little of the early coverage had to do with the olympic games themselves instead it's been about internal russian politics so tell door knobs rumors about killing street dogs vague terror threats some coverage on the other hand like a report on hacking threats has even been flat out false similar threats exist everywhere in the world including the united states at all it's common for the media to use the olympics as a chance to dig deeper into the culture of the host country there does seem to be something unusual about the coverage of this year's olympics everyone knows the president obama and russian president vladimir putin don't always see eye to eye but the media's coverage of the sochi games does raise some interesting questions i mean if the media can't get the story strai

what the plan fracking map is you see it's about the same size. helped by a scheme for real estate which is a copycat of the fannie mae and freddie mac. debacle which caused the subprime crisis of two thousand and seven the british energy corporations are going to take fracking even though in america it's been proven to be completely on economical and environmental disaster but they're going to do it here anyway because why nobody in the media here except for maybe george will be up over there at the guardian will say anything about the fact that this is an ecological disaster and more importantly an economic boon doggle that will increase britain's debt to even higher than it is right now the highest it's been a decades well you talk about the health problems and this woman that they cover here limbering she has severe asthma as i said but as the article points out people who live close to oil and gas development whether in texas is eagle ford pennsylvania's marcellus shale or wyoming is green river basin tend to report the same symptoms nausea n

that is what fracking is.onnectionis the between that and finding natural gas and these pockets of natural gas? guest: we know these resources have been out there for decades, but it is in the last 10 or so years that the technology has evolved to the point where it can be extracted at a relatively economic level. that has revolutionized how we get natural gas in the united states. we have heard a lot about it from both the white house and congress looking at the question of energy security, energy independence. over 30% ofitutes our total gas resource. that has led to a number of developments in the gas market. one that people will notice is that gas prices have dropped substantially from where they were a decade ago, and that is because of this new supply. industry has the ability to take advantage because of the abundant gas we have now, and they are looking to take advantage. host: the numbers are on ours gains -- on our screen if you want to ask our guest about the impact. are there environmental concerns

rex tillerson is leading the fracking revolution. just not in his backyard. >> joining me now is josh fox, director and producer of "gas land" and "gas land 2." josh, you have been reporting on, documenting the fracking explosion in this country for years now. you have been also poring through the lawsuit. >> i have. >> and you stand here today, you stand with rex. >> well, either rex tillerson has just joined the anti-fracking movement or completely exposed all the hypocrisy, brutality and unfairness in this entire system. this is the way it happens to everyone. this is the way it happened to me when i found out fracking was coming to my backyard, i first got worried about just the value of land impacts. you know, what was this going to be? noise, lights, trucks. that's what he's first talking about. then, of course, the next thing that happens is you realize, oh my good, the whole water table under my town can be contaminated. concerned about my town. you realize, oh, there's regional air pollution, organic compounds, chemicals in

fracking wells. strange smells.ise pollution that just about anyone would avoid if they could afford it. that's what the listee family lives with. they run an organic farm on the edge of the eagle ford shale, a strip of oil and gas extraction that stretches from south to eastern texas but they, well, no surprise, don't have the money or lawyers or connections of exxonmobil ceo and they have to live with those costs. >> it just makes constant noise. day have bright lights on all night long. and that one was completed last summer. it flared nonstop for a year. >> we're standing on the road. we own that kind of the road . this is the neighbor's where they're doing a massive frack job. you can hear the noise. loud. really echos late at night. that flame is always going. we don't feel safe having cattle or anything right here. >> there you see the other side of the tracks. and i think that's why our debate over environmental justice is also a debate over social justice. join get down to it, even those oil executives are

in order to frack, now need a ton of water. and you have to store that water in ground or in pools or in a 160-foot water tower like the one being built near tillerson's home. tiller skpon his wealthy neighbors don't want ab ugly water tower near their the properties. so they are suing. tillerson and his wife have joined several of their neighbors in a lawsuit to stop the construction of the water tower. the lawsuit argues the tower, which would be used for fracking, would create a noise nuisance and traffic hazards. you made recognize former house majority leader dick army. army and tillerson are just concerned about the value of their luxury properties worth multiple millions of dollars. . the lawsuit explains that residents simply want to live in an upscale community of tall buildings and other structures that might devalue their properties and impact the rural lifestyle they sought to enjoy. rex tillerson is leading the fracking revolution. just not in his backyard. >> joining me now is josh fox, director and producer of "g

quote, at this point, the governor doesn't support fracking in state parks. we reserve the right to revisit that, but it's not what he wants to do right now and that's been his position for the past year and a half. he can revisit it all he wants. folks, get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question, do you think governor knew details about the fracking list? text a for yes. text b for no. now we go to kate shepard. let's start with the basics. quantify for us why people in ohio were worried about this kind of drilling. what would it do? >> there are a number of concerns that have been raised by hydraulic fracking around the country. people are concerned about the effects of water quality and the chemicals that are used in the fracking process and ground water. they're concerned about air quality issues. there are a number of concerns that people have about having these things in their communities and in their national parks. >> how is it playing out here at the governor's conference in washington where you are? >> well, you know

this is going to be a serious setback for the anti fracking movement. the figure i've heard it's fifty million i mean various different sources of suggested different amounts but they are coming in on fracking in this country and that suggests unfortunately that the what we already know namely the political class in this country is heavily behind it is just as true now as it was before. the major protests we've been seeing up in manchester in lancaster. protesting i guess that's the company that totalising like the best thing in the u.k. and so totally really coming in the shop is kind of the ante for commitment and so what's worrying you and what's worrying you because well what's worrying about this fracking because a top manager at the teller's told r.t. that this could give the u.k. greater energy independence create jobs it's a strong argument isn't it for a country which is now just emerging from the economic doldrums. i think it's a disaster and we need to remember that you know somebody dying of thirst in the desert will take pretty much whateve

. >>> opposition in the uk, controversial proposals over fracking. in northern ireland, politicians will support similar votes across the country. more from northern ireland on growing concerns about what fracking could do to the environment. >> in northwestern ireland, the farthest reach in the united kingdom. remote? but why not frack for gas? after all, there's shale in those hills. but there are people here, and they rely on the land for farming and tourism and water and air for life. when the g8 had a meeting here last year, all of the security people who feared anti-globalization protests, the anti-frackers are still mad now. >> it's going to ruin everything, and it's irreversible, which is a huge worry for humans here. if it goes wrong, there's nothing you can do. >> so something here that has not been tried before in the uk, asking the people in a referendum if they want fracking or not. >> it's very port that we are informed about it. we reach a conclusion, and if that conclusion is the people don't want it, then i would expect that everybod

drilling, fracking, production and processing.part of the fluid that's used to fracture the shale and they're released from the earth when the rock is cracked open. vocs seep from well boers, tanks, flares and pipelines. they have an added danger, hydrogen sulfide. a naturally occurring gas you'll find in some shale areas of the country but is especially abundant here. in low concentrations, it makes people sick. in high concentrations, it can kill. >> over the past eight months, a website called inside climate news and senate republic integrity and our sister network the weather channel have been reporting out this story in south texas. today they released a long awaited report on the subject. it's called fracking, the eagle ford shale, big oil and bad air on the texas prairie. they followed families who lived within a couple miles of 50 wells. families who have for their daily horizon wide open texas and the full throttle machinery of oil and gas. what they found is truly amazing and it's never been reported like this before. yo

frame fracking is the economic solution going forward we've seen increased resistance to fracking in the polls and that's because people understand that the arguments given by government are simply false you know these are these a short term profit. not a catch up on all the very latest from sochi and the winter olympics where russia has one gold in the ladies' free skating program scott was watching the competition . adelina sotnikova has claimed russia's first ever gold medal in figure skating in the women's individual competition she put in a foolish display in the free program to move from second place at the halfway stage after the short program now it was an emotional moment inside the iceberg skating palace in a moment that many russians had been hoping for but perhaps in some ways not expecting because before the competition all eyes were on fifteen year old skier who put in that wonderful display to help russia win team gold in the figure skating but she stumbled fell to the ice in both the short and the free programs which really damaged her chances of competing for a medal

isn't all fracking anti-fracking protests, including yours?think some people could look at and it say that. i think other people take a broader view of it and say, continue to rely on fossil fuels is a serious problem. and that it is having major climate effects. we need to start switching to alternatives. >> you worked for this country for 30 years. at what appointment did you come to see this? >> well, i actually retired. i was in oil and gas and about five years ago, people who knew that i had worked in the industry asked me what i thought about drilling wells close to the lake that draws drinking water for cooperstown whir live. i said, well, that's silly. that no one would put a well that close. when i started looking into it, those regulations were just woefully inadequate allowing wells very close to people's homes. allowing disposal of cuttings, all sorts of things. >> you also say in your letter, these issues are legitimate. you're talking about the concerns about water and noise. these issues are legitimate but they are localized. i

with high pressures to make sure that the frack goes well. are able to do is make sure you have the right chemicals for that specific frack, and what we do is we provide all those chemicals together, 24 by 7,365 days a companyenever the oil wants them on-site. it signifies the logistics, they get what they want when they want it where they want it. >> you go to north dakota, i mean, it really has changed the entire landscape. the u.s. i think of fracking, i think people who can like there water on fire and kids dying. is it not a horrible way to pollute the environment? >> natural gas drilling is very safe, and fracking is equally safe to his store coal, conventional drilling. the drill goes through the water table, but then it goes more than a mile down into the ground and the fracking occurs very deep. >> why can virginians and pennsylvanians burn their water? did they not do it right, or did they just have flammable water to begin with yo? >> companies that know how to do it right have kept it going for many years. >> that said though, you

against a loser same thing as fracking fracking has been proven to be an enormous disaster in the us it doesn't it's not cost effective it's an ecological disaster and it's very short lived it doesn't provide anywhere near the length of the energy resources that they claim to do and yet the u.k. wants to benchmark its fracking and create fracking against a loser against a complete catastrophe same thing with help to buy for a real estate it's modeled on the sub prime catastrophe in america so that david cameron seems to be on a collision course with with reality in that he's constantly benchmarking policies in the u.k. against american disasters is why do you how do you explain that is it is he just he is just all these consultants are totally corrupted him or is he just incompetent government works for the city of london corporation and can i just go back but there's another aspect of and i am for this trade agreement so-called trade agreement is to set global rooms so you're talking about benchmarking but this the i and i am of this trade agreement is definitely to set benchmarks t

madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as possible and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here from little green europe north america africa to come here to see for themselves the signs what they hear from the gas companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. so now with our t. international was reports on the viral video that's called out the cops in britain . a student tells us how a video on you tube proved that police took it too far with an unfair arrest that's up next. i was charged with assaulting a police officer obstructing and resisting arrest i couldn't six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life. york london. the whole world is a. true hero of the original one the one on the end there are further to hang up the courts that believe. the end of the street another one the more transparent society gets the money or the pot the t

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madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as possible and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here from all over in your book north america africa to come here to see for themselves the science what they hear from the gas company because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. stay with our to internationalize where reports on the viral video that's caught out the cops and. i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest i could have been six months in prison and that would have completely revoked probably changed my life a student tells us how a video on the you tube proves that police took at c four with an unfair arrest that's up next. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to such right i have read the reports but i'm like. no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point. to secure a car is on the job

know there are there are some things they could do they could stop fracking the hell out of places. they could tell people the truth about the chemical like they would they want to tell the truth about what chemicals are used in fracking they could tell the truth about the billions of gallons it's you of water the fresh water that you used and listen like this is so basically truth they could pay them off with truth i think i don't know if that would work and since they know. now i understand that radio disney they've also come under fire for shall we say fracking up explain precisely what they want this story they were going around for a while with oil and gas companies because they found out that there's a certain time you can get people in order to push propaganda about fracking it's a great time to get it it's called when they're children when they're a half adults aka tiny screaming blobs of stupidity maybe i only call them that but that's that's also what i refer to congress as but anyway they were going around to schools and with radio disney teaching these kids fracking is w

madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as possible and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here from all over europe north america africa to come here to see for themselves besides what they hear from the guest companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. i'll say without international is a very poor on the viral video that's caught out the cops in britain. being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest i could have been six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life a student tells us how a video on you tube proved our police took it too far with unfair arrest that's up next here on arts international. the media leave us so we leave the. motions your. party says it. seems that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from. welcome back you're watching r.t. international and elliston take a look

the country but don't you dare frack on exxon c.e.o.'s rex tillerson the yard see this million or scumbag things it's perfectly ok to poison the planet with toxic pollution at the hands of his precious business but as soon as his pristine landscape it scarred well that's just not acceptable to tell a person as rich neighbors have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to shut down a fracking project that's just a little too close to his texas mansion and the petition in the town to block a tower that would provide water for fracking because of how much of an eyesore it would be in the suit they actually go as far as claiming it's illegal it would create a noise nuisance and traffic hazards interestingly enough mr tillerson sday job is literally to debunk the same claims he's making in the lawsuit and to promote hydraulic fracturing a practice is already been proven to cause earthquakes and birth defects in the very least in fact tellers and as even garren as far as saying that those who oppose and try to regulate fracking are quote holding back t

madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as possible and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here from all over europe north america africa to come here to see for themselves the science what they hear from the gas companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. stay with us here at national as we report on the viral video that's called out the cops in britain i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest back and six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life a student tells us how a video on you to prove that billy's to gets to far with an ounce a arrest that's up next here on our international. unit she did love her tour. was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which one fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation why. they should care about humans and.

madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as fast and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here will agree you're north america africa to come here to see for themselves the signs here from the gas companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. and we go back to developments in the moscow shooting now police say the man who was holding teenagers hostage in one of moscow's schools has been neutralized spots there are no details on exactly what that means let's get more now from. what is the latest well apparently police have actually taken the shooter in custody and all of the students there is twenty nine of them who he was killing hostage have been freed this is according to the police this is the latest that we are getting however this is apparently this hasn't gone down without a loss of life we're talking about at least two dead and one of them is a police officer another is a

who are concerned about shared gas exploration and fracking.that france's banned this and our government's pushing ahead with this clearly to different countries of different different views. we. confronted. here. with all our fracking. we have been speaking to each and. every summer speaking. with people you doing what you say this is something that you know that can take place of course. but. we knew we could conditions. in order to prevent before getting up anything the problem for a lot of people who live in a community where fracking could take place if it is not david cameron it's not. he's going to be affected by these potential consequences would you say to those people in those communities when we try to convince them. people of these communities. division could be to develop a new city but it's not really a debate is it because the plans are sort of going forward that decision's been made essentially whether they like you don't know what's. going to be decided to do exploration but we really need to have the proper permits you know to

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we fracked over 1 million wells. what's new is horizontal fracking.rilling the wells horizontally, using higher pressures. it's a well-established practice. there's no evidence that fracking itself causes problems, and i think it's a little bit of a misdirection in a way. what really causes problems in these wells is poor well construction, and by that we mean it's a bad cementing job so there are gaps between the well and the cement. that can cause gas or hydrocarbons to escape to the surface. there are poor water management techniques so there may be improper disposal. there are chemical spills at the surface. so there are plenty of things for the industry to be concerned about and to keep an eye on, but, frankly, fracking just isn't one of them. >> at the same time, charles, how efficient is fracking generally speaking because we have these big oil fields that were discovered 75 years ago and are still relatively productive while a lot of the newer wells drilled through fracking methods seem to have high and quick exhaustion rates. >> that's a grea