Fracking the System is a political thriller documentary from the front lines of climate justice activism in Colorado. Wh | dG1fVC1hemhmaEcwSDA
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00:00 A health alert for pregnant women living within a half mile of a fracking site.
00:03 In a state where fracking is happening right next to neighborhoods.
00:06 An Erie mom is sounding the alarm over high levels of cancer-causing chemicals
00:10 found in her six-year-old son's blood.
00:12 I'm a scientist and I'm a mom who's trying really hard not to panic.
00:17 Injecting the substrata of our planet with highly toxic carcinogenic chemicals
00:23 which then seep into the aquifer and hence into the water supply.
00:27 They know that this was supposed to be behind the school with the white kids
00:31 but they didn't want it there and so they brought it to the school with the brown kids
00:35 because nobody cares about our kids because they're Mexican.
00:38 This is a story of a group of Colorado activists who take a stand
00:44 against the invasive big oil industry and the political system that supports it.
00:49 A story of courage and persistence on the front lines to protect our planet
00:55 and children from sickness and destruction.
00:58 Remains of two people have been pulled from the rubble of this house.
01:02 ...county are battling this fire after an explosion at an oil site.
01:06 Future generations will look back to us and they'll just wonder,
01:13 did you do everything you could?
01:14 And I want to be one of those people say, yeah I did.
01:17 It's built on love and it's built on care and all these things that I think we are,
01:24 we are searching for in our world.
01:26 The governor says he will sue any city in Colorado that bans fracking within its borders.
01:35 They're going to do what they feel like doing, doesn't matter what you say.
01:38 Okay, I need to see your ID.
01:39 If we don't address this issue fast enough it runs away from us.
01:42 What's going to become a trillion dollar problem
01:44 is going to potentially be a mass extinction event problem.
01:49 [Music]