Panel at NYC Screening of Anti-Fracking Video, Dear Gov. Cuomo
Channel: Joe Friendly
Date: 2012-12-01

Panel discussion at New York premier screening of  Natalie Merchant's Dear Governor Cuomo, making clear hydraulic fracturing ---fracking---  in New York State to get oil and gas from shale would be a total disaster, ruining drinking water, crops, causing cancer and other diseases.  On the panel with Natalie, Julia Walsh, Jon Bowermaster and David Braun. Also speaking Wenonah Hauter. The film was written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Jon Bowermaster, includes footage directed by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, and features biologist Sandra Steingraber, actor Mark Ruffalo, actress Melissa Leo, and musicians Natalie Merchant, Joan Osborne, Citizen Cope, Medeski Martin and Wood and The Felice Brothers. Event sponsored by New Yorkers Against Fracking, Food and Water Watch, and NY Society For Ethical Culture. camera: Joe Friendly.