Gasland worksheet ansew key

Answer the following questions while you watch the documentary.  Please be quiet so that everybody can hear the movie!!!  The questions go in order, so please look ahead to know what is coming up.

Intro
1)  	Who signed the Clean Water Act into law in 1972?  Richard Nixon (USA President)

2)  	About how much would the narrator receive for leasing his land for natural gas drilling?
	$4,750 per acre - 14 acres = $100,000

3)  	List at least one of the environmental law that natural gas companies are exempt from.
Clean Water Act & Clean Air Act

4)  	What is hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking?)
	Drilling deep into the ground to rock layers ‘shale’ that have trapped natural gas, they are pumping
water with many chemicals into those layers to free up the gas and collect it.

Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
5)  	What state are they focused on in this section of the video? Pennsylvania

6)  	What’s happening to Debbie May’s animals? Cats losing hair, losing weight, vomiting.  Very sick.

7)  	Where did the mystery liquid in the jar come from? Fracking Fluids

Life in the Red Zone
8)  	What are the Mendenhalls able to do with their water? Light it on fire

 9)  	Jesse and Amee Ellsworth have contaminated water that can also be lit on fire.  The drilling companies deny causing the problem, but they are still supplying them with what?  Bring them drinking water.

10)   What kind of health problems are experienced by the blond lady (Renee McClure) and her family, who have been drinking their contaminated water for years? Headaches and coughing.

The Whistleblower
11)   Who does the whistleblower work for? EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

12)   The 2005 Energy Policy Act exempted natural gas drillers from which important environmental law?
	Clean Water Act

13)   List a couple of the dangers associated with “Glycol Ether”
	Malformation of an Embryo, Bone Marrow Depression, & Many More

Easter in Wyoming
14)   The family won their lawsuit and the gas company was forced to put in a “Reverse Osmosis” Machine.  Why did this not solve the problem? Did not filter our Glycol Ethers (it dissolved the filters)

15)   The next farmer has 24 natural gas wells on his property.  He has to feed the contaminated water to his cattle.  Would you eat the meat from those cows? Contaminated meat would contaminate you.


16)   What are some of the negative health effects experienced by this family?
	Loss of some taste and smell, headaches, stomach ache

Your Land, My Land, Gasland

21)   How much of the water that goes into the well comes back up? About half (50%)

22)   Part 2: The Pits: What is in the flowback pits? Used fracking fluid “produced water”

23)    Part 3: Evaporation Sprayers: What is the purpose of evaporation sprayers? To evaporate produced fracking water to get rid of it, possibly sending chemicals into the air.

24)   Part 4: Venting: What happens during the venting? Refining and removing water from the gas/liquid mixture that comes out of the fracking wells.

25)   Part 5: Condensate Tanks: What type of pollution is released from condensate tanks? Toxic emissions and air pollution (greenhouse gases)

Drop Everything, Clear Your Schedule
27)   Why can’t the sick people go public with their story?  What have they signed?
Gas companies paid them to sign non-disclosure agreements.
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Dr. Theo Colburn
28)   How many different chemicals has Dr. Theo Colburn discovered as part of the fracking process?
596 chemicals

29)   What are the health problems of some people in Garfield County?
headaches, irreversible brain damage, swelling, and pain, loss of smell and touch sensations

30)   What’s happened at Divide Creek in 2008?
Oil spill from fracking into the creek.

31)   Why is she keeping the dead animals?
They are evidence of pollution and nowhere to send them.

The Air over Forth Worth
32)   Roughly how many wells are there around Fort Worth? 10,000

33)   What is there more of in this area?  Oil and Gas emissions or car emissions?
Oil and gas emissions - so much fracking and oil wells.

34)   What is the “stuff” coming up off of the condensate tanks?
hydrocarbons, greenhouse gases

36)   What was found in the bottle of mystery water from earlier in the documentary?
lubricants, natural gas, barythium, thalium, TKM?  MBAS?

Throwing Water on a Drowning Man
38)   How does it make you feel that all of the chemicals listed by the businessman at the meeting get pumped into groundwater supplies?
They only care about money and not environment/people.  Bad pollution.  Etc.