Across the United States of America there are numerous deep shale basins, each yielding trillions of tons of natural gas. The benefits from harvesting this gas is obvious, having enormous economic impacts. Some of the largest corporations involved are Cabot, Chesapeake Energy, Chevron and Halliburton. However, the methodology involved in natural gas drilling, especially "fracking" (Hydraulic Fracturing), is highly subject. Fracking is the process in which a mixture of water and chemicals is shot deep into the ground, stimulating what is essentially a small earthquake. The vibrations and intense pressure break up the rock and release the gas to be collected. There have been tens of thousands of reports from 36 different states of people being negatively affected when there is fracking nearby. In the documentary GasLand, by Josh Fox, he uses your emotion and the emotion of those affected by hydraulic fracturing in the film to view this method of natural gas drilling the way he does. In multiple different interviews he shows how families are able to light their water on fire because of contamination from fracking wells. These families are often reduced to tears in the film, because many of them have nowhere to go and nobody to help them. Josh Fox also integrates the role of politics in the film. Like the fact that Dick Cheney, president of Halliburton from 1995-2000, was elected as Vice President of the USA in 2000 when he ran under George W. Bush, and one of the first things he did was create the Energy Task Force. This task force consisted mostly of natural gas companies and met around 40 times during it's existence, however, it only met with environmental groups once.Then, President Bush passed the "Energy Policy Act of 2005", which contained the "Halliburton Loophole". This authorized natural gas drillers to inject known dangerous materials into the ground, unchecked, directly into or adjacent to underground drinking water supplies. This loophole enabled companies to frack for cheaper, now that the need to safely transport and dispose of waste water was gone. Also, this resulted in more people falling ill who are subjected to the poorly disposed of waste water. Not surprisingly, more reports of these illnesses were filed, all of which fell on deaf ears. It is very interesting to examine how Fox uses this documentary as a medium for persuading our environmental views.