Films by Matthew Carney
With access to undercover filming, The Gas Rush reports on a group of farmers and local townspeople in Queensland, Australia who want to halt the rapacious rush for coal seam gas. With scenes similar to that in Gasland — corporate deceptions, contaminated water supplies, toxic fracking chemicals, leaky wells and people setting their water on fire — The Gas Rush illustrates the fact that the drive to extract gas is not only happening in the United States…