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This week on the program we’re going look at the battle to defend the human right and human necessity of access to fresh clean water from corporate privatizers. Whoseover controls your access to water controls you, because you will die without it.
So of course this is an important subject for everyone, but it is a critical issue to those of here in New York State fighting an invasion of gas drillers. In order to access the gas contained in shale thousands of feet below, the drillers must use a process patented by Halliburton called fracking that requires the injection billions of gallons of a toxic brew of water, sand and chemicals into the earth to force gas from the shale formations.
Blue Gold is a documentary on the subject of water privatization that was released last year based on a book of the same title by Tony Clarke and Maude Barlow. I have adapted it for radio. . For those facing the gas drilling threat, the information in this film adds a whole new dimension. If they pollute the water as well as extract gas, there is a great additional profit opportunity. Selling us the water we once had for free as part of the commons they destroyed
