The Sky is Pink
Josh Fox, the filmmaker behind Gasland, returns to the fight over natural gas drilling with this short, made as an urgent dispatch rather than a feature. The subject is New York state, where fracking was being proposed across farmland, forests, and watersheds that supply drinking water to millions downstate. Fox pairs footage of that landscape with interviews and expert commentary laying out the specific risks regulators were weighing: contaminated wells, air pollution near well pads, and the industrial infrastructure that a drilling boom would bring to rural communities. The film also traces the lobbying and political pressure pushing the state toward approval, treating the fight as unfinished rather than settled. It carries the same alarm as Gasland but compresses the argument into a shorter, more immediate form, built to be shown quickly while the policy fight was still active. The tone stays urgent throughout, closing with the stakes for New York's water supply still undecided.