"I Was Not Interested in Disrupting. It Was Not a Protest Action"
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February 2, 2012
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox was handcuffed and arrested as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the natural gas drilling technique known as fracking, which the Environmental Protection Agency recently reported caused water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming.
Fox directed the award-winning film, 'Gasland,' previously publicized on Forbidden Knowledge TV, which documents the impact of fracking on communities across the United States. Fox is now working on a sequel.
On his arrest, Fox says, "We wanted to report on what happened [at the hearing]. I was not interested in disrupting. It was not a protest action."
He added, "I was simply trying to do my job as a journalist and go in there and show to the American people what was transpiring in that hearing, so that down the line as we know there will be a lot of challenges mounted to that [Pavillion, Wyoming] EPA report, and frankly to the people in Pavillion who have been sticking up for themselves and demanding an investigation into the groundwater contamination to make sure that people could view that in a larger forum than usually happens."
