Dear President Obama: The Clean Energy Revolution is Now documents stories from fracking/fossil fuel hotspots in US & the citizen-led fight for clean energy.
Dear President Obama addresses these contradictions, but more importantly it gives voice to some of the many Americans who have become the non-consenting victims of the president’s “all of the above” energy policy that has so often meant everything belowground, no matter the costs of extraction. In many cases that has meant poisoned drinking water, polluted air, sick families, and communities torn apart. More than 17 million Americans now live within one mile of an oil or gas well, and more still are affected by associated infrastructure such as pipelines, air-pollutant spewing compressor stations and bomb trains.
Most importantly, the film is about the future. It serves as a call to President Obama, in the remainder of his term, to help the Americans who have been harmed, and to get us on a swift path to the clean energy future starting today.
There’s still a lot President Obama can do before he leaves the White House in January. He can finally meet in person with Americans, who have been harmed by oil and gas drilling and fracking, and hear their stories firsthand. He can direct his EPA to investigate the many cases of reported water contamination across this country with the same emergency powers that EPA used in investigating Flint, Michigan. And he can stop all drilling on federal lands, which would prevent harm and do a great deal to truly address climate change by keeping fossil fuels in the ground as climate scientists agree we must.
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Director Jon Bowermaster
picks up where Josh Fox left off.
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‘Dear President Obama’ Screening Thursday Night
[...] The movie, narrated by three-time Academy Award nominated actor Mark Ruffalo, looks at the oil and gas industry’s impact on society, highlighting contamination crises, stories from victims, and the boom-and-bust economic impacts on communities. Interviews with scientists, economists, health professionals, geologists, and whistleblowers provide the core narrative.
(it also aired tonite on Viceland channel)
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DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA (Trailer)
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The impacts of these Special Interests on the local populations — in terms of Health, Land Values and Quality of Life, are very real — just ask the locals in Pennsylvania how they feel about the Fracking Fallout that was foisted upon them, by well-compensated local Politicians — who received millions from industry to look the other way. When fracking inevitably harms the local way of life.
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Here’s the Facebook page Dear President Obama. It has more content and more clips.
The Vimeo page has a much larger video segment of the Documentary.