The contentious Keystone XL pipeline was a hot election year issue in 2012. Environmentalist Bill McKibben discusses the issues with writer and director Josh Fox. Bill McKibben led demonstrations at the White House that delayed the approval of a pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta to Texas and is the author of several books, including The End of Nature and Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Josh Fox is director of the acclaimed documentary Gasland, which first revealed the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” In the name of energy independence, natural gas companies are using fracking with the promise to turn the U.S. into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. Fox is the founder of International WOW Company, a film and theater company committed to socially conscious themes and subjects.

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