All I Want is H2O “Live”

Nancy and I were invited up to Frostburg, Maryland, where film maker Josh Fox of Gasland fame was premiering his new film How to Let Go of the World. We were part of an ad hoc band of musicians on stage waiting for Josh and his team to arrive (he joins us with his banjo onstage toward the end).

Baltimore film maker Mike Wicklein was in the audience, and filmed our very informal performance of All I Want is H2o, but then took it home and jazzed it up. His talent is evident!

My song is an intentionally playful description of the fracking process, but there is nothing at all funny about the industry. Under the so-called Cheney or Halliburton Loophole, the fracking industry managed to evade disclosing its chemicals under the Safe Drinking Water Act, even when the lives of farm animals and the health of children and families were involved.

Fortunately, the “Compendium” on fracking developed by PSR and Concerned Health Professionals of NY has been peeling back the layers of false claims from the fracking industry. Now working on the 9th edition, the Compendium is the definitive, annotated collection of scientific findings on the risks and harms caused by this rogue industry, and it is now being increasingly used by our courts.

For a shorter summary of the risks of fracking, you can download the PSR report “Too Dirty, Too Dangerous: Why health professionals reject natural gas.”