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Where has fracking been allowed on the East Coast?
Armed with exploration licenses issued by the New Zealand government, Tag Oil and its partner Apache intend to extract oil and gas from the East Coast. See the map here >
In technology
Man-made earthquakes
Is it possible for human activity to cause quakes? One investigation in Blackpool, England discovered that more than fifty tremors in the region were caused by fracking operations. Read the article >
In Did you know?
Fracking on our shores
What's happening right under our noses? The Listener's Rebecca Macfie investigates what the consequences to our land might be. Read the article >
In Green Screens
Planet watch
Josh Fox investigates fracking in America in his Oscar-nominated film Gasland
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Fracking news
Where the money goes
March 16, 2012 • 2 comments
Good is supporting the creation of Fracking Whatatutu, a documentary investigating fracking in New Zealand. Creating a film doesn't come cheap – so even though it's on a shoestring budget, there's still a substantial sum to raise. Here's what filmmakers Tom & Sumner plan to spend donations on ... and how you can help out the film.
Watch the new Fracking Whatatutu trailer
December 1, 2011 • 1 comments
What's it all about? Click here to watch the full trailer for Fracking Whatatutu.
Help Fracking Whatatutu get made, receive rewards!
December 1, 2011 • 0 comments
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Tom & Sumner need to crowdsource some of the cost of making Fracking Whatatutu. If you support the project, you can choose from a host of rewards!
Introducing Fracking Whatatutu
December 1, 2011 • 1 comments
With just five streets and 300 residents, Whatatutu is an East Coast town you can miss in a blink.
It’s a tight-knit community surrounded by struggling family farms – and shale reserves so vast the area is “literally leaking oil and gas”, according to Canadian mining company Tag Oil.
Armed with exploration licenses issued by the New Zealand government, Tag Oil and its partner Apache intend to extract oil and gas from the shale around Whatatutu using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”.
Fracking involves injecting millions of litres of highly pressurised water, sand and chemicals into the earth. Mining industry advocates claim the practice is safe – environmentalists insist it leaves a toxic legacy.
Will fracking Whatatutu turn out be an economic boom ... or an environmental bust? This new film by an Oscar-nominated Kiwi duo will find out ...
