Peace on Earth Film Festival

I journey to the Chicago Cultural Center on March 19th to attend the Peace on Earth Film Festival.  When i first arrived, I did not know what to expect.  But as I arrived and walked into the auditorium where it was happening, a sign caught my eye.  It said “ Raising awareness of peace, nonviolence, social justice, and an eco-balanced world.  This really stuck with me throughout the whole movie presentation.  The movie we came to see was called Groundswell Rising.  It was a special screening and a feature Documentary. The lights then went down, and the movie started.  I loved it.  The 70 minutes flew by.  It was about both sides of the political spectrum of the fracking for natural gas.  It also talked about the environmental effects that fracking had.  What I thought was this movie’s strength was that it pulled in all different sorts of people to interview.  It pulled in locals, scientists, politicians, doctors, farmers, and even parents.    The whole movie tracks the grassroots movement that exposes the danger to our clean air, water, and civil rights.  I left the theater amazed and hungry for more knowledge about fracking and what we could do to fight and find alternate forms of energy.

When I got home, I wanted to expand my research and break down fracking a bit more.  Fracking, or Hydraulic Fracturing, is a technical  process of drilling down into the earth because high-pressured water mixture is directed at a rock to real ease gas inside.  Sand, water, and chemicals are injected into the rock at a high pressure which then allows gas to flow out.  Another big reason why fracking is such a bad thing is that  it uses an average of 400 tanker trucks to carry just water to and from the site.  This is water that could be used as drinking water.  Not only that but the water is mixed with sand and chemicals to create 40,000 gallons of chemical laced fracking fluid.  This chemical mixture contains up to 600 chemicals.  What is even worse is that this process contaminates the water with high levels of methane, leaving locals with high percent cases of sensory, respiratory, and neurological damage.  This is a very important topic, and If you would like to learn more about check out this website:

    

http://www.dangersoffracking.com/