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Gasland Showing--College Park Office

When:

Feb 15, 2011
Tuesday: 6:45-9:00pm

Details:

Use of hydrofraking to extract natural gas from the Marcellus Shale formation in the Allegheny mountains of VA-WV-MD-PA-NJ has become a major issue in the past couple of years. The Maryland Chapter is working on a campaign to put a moratorium on drilling until stricter permitting conditions are met and until there is an adequate capacity to monitor and enforce regulations.

Gasland is a winner at the Sundance Film Festival.

The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fraking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudi Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fraking safe?

When Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies, and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND.

Space is limited, so please RSVP!

 

Contact Information:

Sierra Club Maryland
**Please call to RSVP, the rsvp site might not allow more sign-ups** Call the office, 301-277-7111 for details.
intern@mdsierra.org

Directions:

7338 Baltimore Ave, Suite 111, College Park, MD 20740

 

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CAR:
Take the 495 DC Beltway to exit 25B College Park Route 1 South.
Pass the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) campus on right.  
Pass College Avenue (the southern most UMCP entrance).
Turn right at the next light on to Knox Rd.
Drive up the hill on Knox Rd and turn left just past the shopping center
into the back parking lot behind and above the shops.

PARKING:
Sierra Club office is above the shops on same level
as the parking lot behind College Park shopping center. 
We have a few passes for permit only spaces.
Bring quarters in case the permits are all being used,
or there are no permit only spaces left.
There is a bit of free parking on Knox Rd.
There are meters in front lot, back lot, and over by Kinkos.
METRO
Green Line to College Park Metro Station:

BUS
Exit East side of College Park Metro station facing Paint Branch Parkway. 
Take #83 bus marked "Rhode Island" for 6 minute bus ride to Baltimore Ave.
(Route 1) & Hartwick road.  Buses run every 30 minutes at 25 and 55 after the
hour  till 9:25 pm.  There are also UMCP shuttle buses running every 15
minutes up to the campus that are free.

WALKING
(10 minutes) Exit West side (the community side - not the huge parking lot side) You must turn hard right after descending from platform and go through the tunnel under metro tracks). 
Walk 1 block up Calvert Road.
Take 1st right on Dartmouth, then 1st left on Knox Road.
Go 6 (short) blocks.  Cross Route 1 to the Shopping Center. 
Take stairwell to right of  Star Bucks & Chipotles up to the 2nd level.