Filmmaker Josh Fox travels the United States along the Marcellus Shale formation to uncover the negative environmental and health effects of fracture drilling as a means of extracting natural gas.

Corporate salesman Steve Butler has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. As they grapple with a surprising array of both open hearts and closed doors, the outsiders soon discover the strength of an American small town at a crossroads.

"In 2008, as George W. Bush tried to gift the energy and mining industries thousands of acres of pristine Utah wilderness via a widely disputed federal auction, college student Tim DeChristopher monkey-wrenched the process. Bidding $1.7 million, he won 22,000 acres--with no intention to drill. For this astonishing (and successful) act of civil disobedience, he was sentenced to two years in federal prison. Bidder 70 tells the story of this peaceful...

Telling a brief history of the Uintah County, Uintah, Daggett and Duchesne counties their strengths and successes. Flaming Gorge Dam, a place of recreation is shown.

Telling a brief history of the Uintah County, Uintah, Daggett and Duchesne counties their strengths and successes. Flaming Gorge Dam, a place of recreation is shown. This film is a Bicentennial Film Production by The Bureau of Community Development at University of Utah.