Listen In -- Human Interest Stories

When Jeff Andrysick and his wife Jody found out that the gas company was going to drill near their farm, they dropped everything to find out more.Then they bought a video camera and made a movie that would tell everyone in their area what they learned. The gas company planned to drill horizontally into the ground and fracture the shale to release natural gas.  This hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) technique would harm their farm’s water supply, the air quality and even the peace and quiet of their small town.  People in Pennsylvania whose land was similarly fractured reported heavy trucks and machinery constantly running through their towns and dangerous chemicals suddenly appearing in the water supply, sometimes making it undrinkable.  The gas company had never warned them of any of this.  In fact, they won’t even release the names of the chemicals that they use, making it impossible to defend against them. Jeff and Jody Andrysick hope that the film shows people another side of the natural gas story than