Josh Fox Unveiled, Exposed and Revealed

This page offers a compilation of some of the best information out there on Josh Fox, the charlatan who fractivists hold up as their inspiration, the chameleon who operates by these rules:

Everything in the film was planned, every scene was either scripted or outlined beforehand – but everything really happened, because it was real, in a sense, we were immersed in that reality. – Josh Fox talking about his movie, Memorial Day

Google “Gasland” and you’ll get almost 1.5 million results. Until recently, many of them related to positive stories about the movie. Google “Josh Fox” and you’ll get nearly half a million similar hits. Nonetheless, the veneer started to crack with Gasland II. It was a poor imitation of the original that garnered mostly ho-hum reviews.

Time also has a way of correcting the record. The evidence revealing Fox never got a $100,000 lease offer the way he claimed in the movie has finally gotten some media attention. This suggests Gasland III (already being financed by the Park Foundation) may never get out of the gate. If it does, it is likely to fall even flatter. Fox is slowly being unveiled.

We’d like to hasten that process. Fox is a demagogue in the service of the Park Foundation and other wealthy special interests. His 15 minutes of fame should have ended long ago. Therefore, we’ve gathered together some of the best material telling you exactly who he is. He’s anything but the country boy turned rebel environmentalist he’d like you to believe. Here are the best sources for what you need to know about Fox:

Josh Fox and His Phony $100,000 Offer (How It Came Unravelled)

Josh Fox’s History, Hypocrisy and Lies

Gasland Exposed

The Angry, Bitter and Deceptive Fox

The Fox in the Henhouse

The Fox at the Movies and on the Road

Perhaps you have your revealing stories about the deceptions used by the cunning one. If so, please send them along!

43 thoughts on “Josh Fox Unveiled, Exposed and Revealed”

Hope Forpeace on February 25, 2014 at 9:25 pm said:

Fox has replies to all of these points. Have you perused this Tom?

http://1trickpony.cachefly.net/gas/pdf/Affirming_Gasland_Sept_2010.pdf

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- Tom Shepstone on February 25, 2014 at 9:33 pm said:
  
  This is very old and has itself been debunked plus it addresses none of the points regarding his blatant lease lie or the fact he tried attributing a methane problem to fracking, which had zero to do with it or any methane issue for that matter.
  
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bill on March 13, 2014 at 2:43 pm said:

Any industry that is “self” regulating, is ripe for criticism, you should welcome outside critics and regulation to give yourself credibility.

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- Tom Shepstone on March 13, 2014 at 3:02 pm said:
  
  The industry is subject to one heck of a lot more than self-regulation and it welcomes constructive criticism but that’s not what’s being funded by these groups.
  
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  - Bill F. on April 24, 2014 at 10:05 am said:
    
    There is plenty of issues related to NG drilling that go unregulated and trying to change this seems to be taking years.If NG companies were responsible in actions rather than just their words it would be more beneficial for all ….Plenty of constructive criticism has been suggested for years and we still get the same old line !!
    
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    - Johnson on October 25, 2015 at 10:19 pm said:
      
      Josh Fox is a liar, Fracking is perfectly fine and allows jobs, lower energy, and help for those who need it – Children have energy to keep the schools warm, energy to run their computers and food cooked by energy.
      This does not happen with Wind or Solar – sorry to have to tell you such an obvious fact!
      
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      - Penolpe on October 28, 2015 at 9:32 pm said:
        
        It may warm childrens schools, but it also is giving children health problems
      - NYC_watershed_resident on January 11, 2016 at 12:38 pm said:
        
        Oh, great. Our kids will stay warm at school while they develop health problems and eventually die an early death. But they’ll be warm…
      - Tom Shepstone on January 11, 2016 at 1:10 pm said:
        
        Your not given to overstatements or exaggerations, I see.
      - Muh on June 8, 2016 at 10:00 pm said:
        
        I have friends who used to live next to a fracking spot. They’d disagree with you. At one point their water all went bad, they had to sue to get the company to set them up with a water system of some kind.
Bill F. on April 24, 2014 at 10:01 am said:

Just more fear of the truth that comes out about HVHF process .All the rest is just dog and pony and PR !!……when you live with it you get the real story beyond all the Hype !

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Michel on May 26, 2014 at 4:49 am said:

And what about you?

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David on June 29, 2014 at 6:44 pm said:

I can’t believe this website exist. Perhaps the author wouldn’t mind having their health severely impacted by an uncaring and profit driven multinational invading his back yard.

Facts and truth? I think somebody has heavy pockets or they haven’t bothered to look…

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- Tom Shepstone on June 29, 2014 at 7:41 pm said:
  
  I notice you offer no facts – just baseless allegations. Make your case instead of engaging in name-calling.
  
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  - Penolpe on October 28, 2015 at 9:16 pm said:
    
    Ok, 1-Fracking is proven to cause cancer, 2-The gas companys have no respect for peoples property and them, 3-If it is safe why not tell us the chemicals used, BECAUSE THEY ARE TOXIC 4- Fracking causes childrens health problems more than adults. Is that not enough.
    
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    - Tom Shepstone on October 29, 2015 at 8:32 am said:
      
      There’s not a single verifiable fact in your list. Not a one. You’re simply drinking the Kool-Aid, Penolpe. Try again.
      
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      - Lel on September 16, 2016 at 3:23 am said:
        
        Fracking, at the very least is correlated with cancer.
        
        http://www.businessinsider.com/researchers-have-linked-us-fracking-to-higher-rates-of-cancer-and-heart-conditions-2015-7
        
        http://fortune.com/2016/02/24/oil-gas-industry-pollution/
        
        Is a simple Google search too much work or are you just trying to avoid facts and science?
Mountain Man on August 9, 2014 at 3:18 pm said:

Tom…you are officially invited to come here to Dimock and have a nice big glass of our water ! But as we all know….you won’t come near the place. You want facts? They are here…in our homes….our air….our land….and saddest of all…our water. So until you at the very least come for a short visit, you are only speaking through the opinions of others. You have ZERO firsthand experience, which is the only way to be able to give an opinion on most anything.

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- Tom Shepstone on August 9, 2014 at 4:42 pm said:
  
  I was in Dimock Monday and probably 40 times over the last three years. So, you’re from Dimock then?
  
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  - Justbeingclint on October 6, 2015 at 3:07 pm said:
    
    Tom this site is great and I truly like how you respond. There is so many people who our just bully negative name callers with groundless accusations as you have said. I love how for example Mountain Man didn’t respond back then he as from Dimock plus the many others who seem to forget the laws of the land our based on facts, evidence and that word of mouth with credibility to back it up it worthless and waste all of our time.
    
    It is better not to speak a remain fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt. ;).
    
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  - Penolpe on October 28, 2015 at 9:25 pm said:
    
    Sure you where…. have you ever been to the finger lakes Tom? That was all at risk. You and your stupid theorys about fracking and Quomo are stupid go look at the facts!!!!!!!! I am 13 and smarter than you.
    
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    - Tom Shepstone on October 29, 2015 at 8:34 am said:
      
      Really? Well, I know how to spell Cuomo. I don’t think you’re 13 either.
      
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- Johnson on October 25, 2015 at 10:20 pm said:
  
  Go Dimock!! I support you and your town – clean water without some money making wierdo (JOSH??) who started ruining your lives.
  
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Rita on January 3, 2015 at 10:24 am said:

Please talk about where us in Wayne County PA stand? I was in the NWPOA and since the moratorium we are in limbo. I know it’s connected to NY but do we have any chance of picking up the ball again?
Thanks.

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- Tom Shepstone on January 3, 2015 at 10:32 am said:
  
  We’re still in limbo until a lawsuit is filed and I remain hopeful that will happen soon.
  
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Pam Williams on March 2, 2015 at 2:12 pm said:

Well Tom, there’s plenty of negative evidence out there, brought to us all by the likes of Anthony Ingraffea who isn’t being bought by anyone. You’re the only one in favour of fracking. I guess you’re paid by the company!

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- Victor J Furman on August 30, 2018 at 10:18 am said:
  
  Pam
  Back in 2009 in Elmira NY Tony gave a lecture on fracking and failure. I thought it strange that a man who taught the mechanics of rock fracturing for 30 years would now be against it’s use and wondered why he did so. I had the distinct impression he was doing financially better giving lectures and enjoyed the attention.
  
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Catherine Hammell on July 30, 2015 at 4:09 pm said:

If Josh Fox is such as charlatan and you seem to have so much proof of it… well, it’s seems ridiculous to put so much about him on this site. Why not just acknowledge that some of the issues he is concerned about are issues all of us (who have contracts) should be aware of ? If my well water suddenly has any sort of fracking fluid in it, I’m pretty sure I’d know where it came from. We’re all playing Russian Roulette with this.

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- Johnson on October 25, 2015 at 10:23 pm said:
  
  Your water cannot have any frack fluid in it – the wells are too deep to be of concern – check out the DEPTH of the frac, and the DEPTH of your water – it will be several thousand feet below any potable water. Potable means drinking water…
  
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  - Franz Liszt on July 3, 2016 at 1:59 am said:
    
    Great work Tom. These poor, easily-led lay people are so stupid; they don’t know the first thing about hydraulic fracturing and drilling in general. Would it kill them to look online or (gasp!) actually crack open a book and read about casing, tubing, cementing, perforating, porosity, permeability etc…? I know reading about where your energy comes from is sooo infinitely boring and not nearly as fun as a rap concert but….HF is brilliant, it not only bypasses near wellbore damage but it also creates a high permeability conductive pathway. Anti Frac’ers are not only remarkably uninformed but also one detects a tinge of jealousy in the monetary success of others.
    
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no on December 10, 2015 at 10:42 pm said:

This is great. Really, if the world didn’t use 80 MMbbl of oil every single day, you might have something to change. However, this world will continue to expend natural resources (oil & gas, for the uneducated) until all reserves are depleted. The fact that people are here to criticize hydraulic fracturing, who are probably sitting on their asses drinking out of plastic cups (made from petroleum) watching their buddy Josh ramble on about causes of cancer really makes me giggle at their lack of knowledge and ability to comprehend someone’s desire to become “famous.” Last time I checked, being alive as a human causes cancer, and if you feed a sewer rat enough peanuts for its entire existence, it will probably die from cancer. So here’s to the extremely ignorant, uneducated people that really don’t know anything about the oil and gas industry. Find a good book, read it, and stay away from controversial issues regarding any technical process.

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Steph S on April 12, 2016 at 8:08 am said:

There is a special place in Hell for people like the sponsor of this website. Gross. And shame on you.

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- Franz Liszt on July 3, 2016 at 2:09 am said:
  
  Yours is one of the most irritatingly uninformed, loathsome comments I’ve ever had the misfortune to read. Please please read an unbiased text on drilling and fracking before you go all in with Green Party propaganda.
  
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  - Juststop on September 16, 2016 at 3:38 am said:
    
    An unbiased paper on fracking and drilling will tell you what any reputable scientist will: They’re cancer for the environment. I’ve never been into the Green Party, but your fact-phobic comment was closer to make me have a favorable view of them. We know that by “unbiased text” you mean “a paper that supports my point.”
    
    “Yours is one of the most irritatingly uninformed, loathsome comments I’ve ever had the misfortune to read.”
    
    Perfect projection of the garbage you just wrote.
    
    Educate yourself.
    
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fracking-can-contaminate-drinking-water/
    
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fracking-brings-ammonium-and-iodide-to-local-waterways/
    
    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/shallow-fracking-wells-may-threaten-aquifers/
    
    http://www.livescience.com/34464-what-is-fracking.html
    
    http://www.livescience.com/55445-fracking-activity-asthma-risk.html
    
    http://www.livescience.com/39155-fracking-is-draining-local-communities.html
    
    http://climatekids.nasa.gov/fossil-fuels-gas/
    
    http://www.pnas.org/content/113/35/9734.full
    
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Robert on January 19, 2017 at 11:35 pm said:

Juststop….Don’t you know facts don’t count anymore? You can get away with saying anything just claim “Fake News!”

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Catherine on February 20, 2017 at 4:07 am said:

I was just wondering how many people who support Josh Fox drive cars, use plastic, take pharmaceuticals, wear clothes, etc…

If you do, then I’d suggest you buy a solar home, ride a bike and grow your own food because you are part of the demand, and really just complaining. Im from Ohio, so Im aware the East is the first place to say YAY! Cheap gas! How do you think that is possible? You cant really be dependant on oil and natural gas and then condemn the means of providing it. If you don’t want drilling, then stop depending on O&G. Or perhaps, it’s ok for you to use the resources, but it’s not ok to drill where you are, and ok to drill in other states where others might get sick. I am understanding this correctly?

I’m just wondering what suggestions you have. You’re dependant on a non renewable resource that is more complicated and dangerous, especially in offshore, to extract and offer no solution, and continue needing the resource. I’m also shocked at the size of some of the folks in the documentaries… it might not be fracking, but obesity causing the health isdues. How about a salad?

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- Spuds on January 6, 2018 at 8:22 am said:
  
  You will notice that none of them really support the major re-use of methane as a green energy source… which is from their own organic and sanitary wastes. Of course they will promote other so called green energy producers like wind and solar which are heavily dependent on the use of fossil fuels for their manufacturing, transport, construction and maintenance. They sound like posers to me.
  
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  - Spuds on April 14, 2018 at 11:19 am said:
    
    Case in point. I wonder if people like Josh Fox care about hard working poor Chinese folks.
    
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Guy on September 6, 2017 at 7:35 pm said:

Josh Fox has not been sued. Why not?

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- Spuds on January 6, 2018 at 8:25 am said:
  
  It is quite possible that the legal fees to sue highly outweigh any of his “true wealth”?
  
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Mike on January 7, 2018 at 7:47 pm said:

Josh Fox is yet another liberal bully that tries to dominate a discussion to mute any other opinion that contradicts his own. Typical ugly liberal that ruins all credibility with their point.

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Dr Tim Ball - Historical Climatologist on December 7, 2018 at 8:58 pm said:

On Feb 13, 2018: The judge dismissed all charges in the lawsuit brought against Dr Tim Ball by BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver. It is a great victory for free speech.
‘The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzpPXuASY8
“Human Caused Global Warming”, ‘The Biggest Deception in History’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPzpPXuASY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO08Hhjes_0
https://www.technocracy.news/dr-tim-ball-on-climate-lies-wrapped-in-deception-smothered-with-delusion/
http://www.drtimball.com

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julie r nutter on February 4, 2019 at 9:38 pm said:

I don’t have to watch Josh’s films to learn the truth about fracking….my sister in law lives in Pa. and what he depicted in his films is TRUE!!!!! Her well was poisoned…because of fracking…she had an independent lab test it and it contained the chemicals Josh’s water samples contained….and yes, her water could be set on fire!!!! So you are WRONG……and you are LIARS!!!!

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