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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. She rode shotgun with a surfer-turned-truck driver braving toxic fumes and dangerous roads, dined with businessmen disgraced during the financial crisis, and interviewed everyone in between -- including an ex-con YouTube celebrity, a trophy wife mired in scandal, and a hard-drinking...
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the documentary Gasland, Gasland, Part II continues filmmaker Josh Fox's exploration of the dangers of the process of natural gas extraction known as hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as "fracking", chronicling the spread of the practice further in the U.S. as well as in 32 countries worldwide.