Fracking Gas

Nonfiction • TV-14 • Directed by: Dan Rather Reports • 52 minutes

(4/13/2010) It's being called America's new energy frontier. Technological advances in drilling for natural gas have opened up vast new reserves, in shale rock. Enough gas, some estimates say, to last the U.S. 100 years. We look at what the technology is, how it works and the effect it may have on world politics. Also, families in small Wyoming town are getting sick. They believe their well water has been contaminated by the chemicals used to hydraulically fracture, or frack, gas wells on their property. The EPA is testing to see if they might be right. And a potentially game-changing update on a story we have been following - the danger of repeated concussions, particularly in sports like football. One woman speaks for her husband who cannot. She's taking a claim that her husband's dementia was caused by concussions during his NFL career to court. And if she wins the implications for the NFL could be huge.