Sky is Pink: The Best 18-Minute Video Ever Made

It's not that often that a video is so good that it can change our health and well-being on this planet forever. For most Americans this video will be a bit of a shock, but trust me, The Sky is Pink is the best 18 minutes you will spend watching television.

Heck, I watched three hours of the Biggest Loser the other night (as did millions of others), the least you can do is watch the first 9 minutes of this film:

THE SKY IS PINK from JFOX on Vimeo.

 

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Comments

[Steven Jon Palmatier]

09:01 AM on 06/27/2012

Well, any time someone references the Garfield County study like Josh Fox does in this movie without mentioning that it was a study of potential impacts, was never completed and that the data gathered by the health department there so far shows little to no impact on public health it makes me question their integrity.

The movie, like Gasland is full of factual errors.

[zoarman]

09:54 AM on 06/26/2012

Solar and Wind Energy. Let's decrease the DEPENDENCE on Gas and Oil. We can make the world a better and more sustainable place. We just need to say no to corporate propaganda AND lies. And how 'bout some self reliance and self-determination, you know, those American traits....... (I have been making my own energy with solar and wind for seven years. It is easy. I just didn't listen to all the lies and negatives about how I could NOT do it. You can too. Courage comes to mind. Got courage?)

[scarab23]

10:40 PM on 06/25/2012

Tom Ridge, yet another of the migratory government execs who find much greener pastures under your feet, where they then have the opportunity to continue to poison you with their even more volatile gaseous emissions

[redhills]

03:37 PM on 06/25/2012

Sadly the sky turns pink where ever oil and gas can be dragged out of the ground kicking and screaming. It will just take more dollars to grease the skids in the more populated areas to get it done as compared to the oil and gas company’s pretty much having their way out in rural American. I grew up in south central Kansas and back in the 1970’s they started using injection wells where they would take the salty water that came from oil wells as a byproduct and injecting back into older unproductive wells to force the oil hopeful towards a well that was still in production nearby to expand the life of that well. It of course it didn't take long for my folk’s water well water to turn salty. My parent’s place had a water well pumping for at least 50 years and then suddenly it goes bad right after injection wells started?

Again… as back then… one cannot rely on a cement lining to keep bad things from below coming up into the water table. Even if the concrete was done correctly in the first place a lot of these casing are destine to fail over time. As Josh Fox notes these linings have to last forever!

I fear it will take something like New York losing its good water before any real progress will happen. It’s just our predictable human nature in action or I should say inaction!

[Grant Trudeau]

01:55 AM on 06/23/2012

Everyone who hates on the petroleum industry I suggest this; stop driving, using electricity, using plastics, pharmaceuticals, and airplanes. If you make it a month and still feel the same, you have a valid non hypocritical complaint.

[Matthew Daniel Watkins]

03:21 AM on 06/23/2012

Sounds like a straw man argument. I can use a product and expect safety, the two ideas are not separate.

[msnyc12]

11:38 AM on 08/19/2012

But now that you know it is not safe you stil use it. That is a 'real man' argument. If you assume (for some reason) Big Macs are good for you and find they are not, stop eating them. If you found out that gas/oil are bad for the planet, then damn straight stop using them. If you don't YOU simply create the demand and are PART of the problem. You really DON'T need to drive, find a job you can walk to, build a fireplace for the winter and just suffer in the summer. Store just enough food that won't spoil without refrigeration etc so forth so on.

But you won't do any of that. You'll reply with your 'need' and your 'right' and continue to enjoy all the blessed advantages of technologies you cannot comprehend all the while snarling at the people who made that lifestyle possible because they provided you with the energy source and processes that were available at the time.

How about YOU go figure out how to make clean, renewable, cheap energy and then give it away to everyone?

[Toby McGowan]

10:53 PM on 06/24/2012

I have for the past four months...I do feel the same, thanks for asking.

[So-called-bob]

10:25 PM on 06/22/2012

Titles of technical papers from the Halliburton site:
1.)Improve the Economics of Oil and Gas Wells by Reducing the Risk of Cement Failure
2.)Foamed vs Conventional Cement: Cause and Effect of Tensile Fractures in Hydraulic Fracturing Operations
3.)Gas Migration: What Causes It and How to Prevent or Control It
I downloaded these pdf's from:http://www.halliburton.com/toolsresources/Default.aspx?pageid=2093&pagenum=2&Area=PS&Option=23
"Gas migration after cementing is one of the most prevalent problems in the oil and gas
industry." is the first sentence from # 3. The only thing I can assume is that the sky is pink and the gods are still crazy.

[bleedingheartliberal218]

04:02 PM on 06/22/2012

When I received fracking chemical engineering job e-mails a while ago from Halliburton, they had a section on their website entitled "Halliburton Scandal" right above "Jobs" where they revealled that everywhere they fracked shale for natural gas they contaminated ground and surface water.

Former Pa. Republican Governor and Bush's Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge, consultant to the fracking industry, instructed the frackers to be honest and open with Pennsylvanians about fracking to gain their trust, but I don't believe he meant them to be this honest and open.

[WendyB4animals]

08:51 AM on 06/22/2012

Thank you Josh Fox for this video. Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas is not safe, I've been reading about it for awhile and heard stories from people who live near drilling. This industry covers up a lot of illegal dumping, leaking, blow outs, etc. and it is very very difficult to try to prove that a drilling well contaminates people's wells. The industry has high paid lawyers and pays off a lot of people in power. Josh is at least trying to find the truth about this industry and get it out to the public. This scares me more then any other energy extraction because it could potentailly ruin OUR water supply system which we need to survive, not to mention that it causes earthquakes too.

[james4truth1066]

10:00 AM on 06/25/2012

Unfortunatley the mud people don't care about destroying the planet.