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And wind turbines.

They are massive, 24/7,

ruthless bird-killing machines.

They don't care if the birds

are endangered or not.

The problem with these people that

continually promote renewable energy

is I think none of them

own a calculator.

Let me run you through the numbers.

If you just look at the growth

in electricity demand

from 1985 through 2011,

on average, electricity demand

globally increased

by 450 terawatt hours.

That's 450 trillion watt hours.

If you just wanted to supply

the incremental demand

of that 450 terawatt hours per year,

you would have to

cover a land area

of about 100 square miles

every day,

with nothing but wind turbines.

I was back on the road

when I heard some breaking news

about Dimock, Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Department

of Environmental Protection

had tested the water in Dimock,

including the well

of Craig and Julie Sautner.

Pennsylvania's

environmental agency

tells CBS news, "There

is no evidence in Pennsylvania"

of fracking ever having

contaminated drinking water."

However, that wasn't

good enough for Craig and Julie Sautner.

They insisted the federal Environmental

Protection Agency investigate.

The EPA agreed,

and started a comprehensive testing

of Dimock's water wells.

Federal officials have released

a fourth round of results

from well-water testing

in the Dimock area.

The Environmental Protection Agency

says it did not find any alarming

results from 12 more wells

it tested earlier this year.

So 1500 people in Dimock

said their water was fine.

Pennsylvania's Department

of Environmental Protection

confirmed this.

And now the EPA has announced there's

nothing wrong with the water.

I decided to ask the Sautners if they

would now drop their lawsuit.

I was half a mile away

from the Sautners' house.

I was on the phone,

calling them for an interview

when Julie Sautner saw me

and drove up.

- That's her.

- That's her.

Well, how's it going?

We just wanted to ask

you a quick few questions.

The people are very upset

you saying the water's dirty.

Do you agree the water is dirty?

But the EPA says

the water is clean now.

They said there's no

contamination in the water.

Is there contamination

in your water?

What did the EPA

say about your water?

I just want to find the truth.

Why would we be sued?

What are we lying about?

Why do you not want

to be filmed?

You've given hundreds of

interviews to people.

But I want to know what the EPA

have said about your well.

Will you give me the results

of your well?

Why not? I'm just

asking you the truth.

You're involved in a very public

lawsuit. You've given interviews.

You've said your well is

contaminated. The EPA has said...

I'll drink your water now.

Would you bring it down?

You've got this brown water. Can we

go get some of your brown water?

Ls that brown water just a prop?

Ls your water actually

brown at the moment?

Let's go to the well now.

Let's go to the well

now and get...

With your permission.

Please do.

You're armed?

Well, I'm not

getting involved now.

What are you reaching for

there now? Oh, okay.

Well, I'm not harassing you

in any way. You stopped...

I was standing here.

You stopped to talk to me.

That's, what's...

Are you declining

an interview? Julie?

Are you declining to

show me the results?

I just want to get that officially.

Are you declining to

show me the results?

- How's it going?

- Put your hands where I can see.

What's going on?

- We're making a documentary.

- Okay.

- Do you have any ID on you?

- Yeah. Sure.

Were you on her property?

No, I was on the public road there

on a phone and she pulled up.

I actually was standing on the road

and she pulled up and

we had this conversation

while she was in her car.

All right. Did you say you were

gonna take water from her house

without her permission

or something?

No, I asked her

to provide me with water.

Oh, you just asked her if she would

voluntarily provide you with water?

- Yes.

- Okay, all right.

So you never said anything about,

I'm gonna come on your property

and take your water when you're

gone or something like that?

- Absolutely not.

- Okay.

Okay, all right.

Okay, I'm just gonna...

- Did she say that?

- Yes. So that's why I'm here.

What was Julie Sautner

trying to hide?

Why would she not release the

findings of the EPA's water testing?

A source told me that three senior

EPA officials had given her

the results

and that the meeting was filmed.

Through a Freedom of

information request,

I managed to get hold of the tape.

It showed the EPA

telling the Sautners

that their water

was not contaminated.

Their reaction to this good news

was rather strange.

Oh, my God,

I just can't believe you people!

She's discussed us with everybody.

She's got a problem.

- That's... lookit...

- No, I'm...

- Right here...

- Sit down...

I'm not sitting anywhere.

I'm done with this. I am.

- Right here.

- You can finish this.

I'm done. I'm getting myself

too upset for this sh*t!

No, this is bullcrap, man!

I'm sick and tired of this!

What happened to you people?

Really?

- Listen...

- You guys aren't the same

as you were two months ago,

three months ago.

You think I made this stuff up?

This is... this is...

this... you're out of here?

Yeah. I'm not gonna...

this is getting...

if you want to sit down

and talk rationally to me...

How can I talk rationally if you guys

won't listen to anything we say?

- I'm listening to you...

- You're saying my water's fine!

And we can drink it!

We're telling you

we tested your water.

At this point in time we found

no contaminants in it.

Campaigns

by people like the Sautners

bring bans and moratoriums

on fracking around the world.

These bans have consequences,

because energy really matters.

We all love energy,

even if we don't realize we do.

Just think about all

the things you love.

Your friends,

lazy afternoons together,

experimenting with the latest recipe,

new ideas, solving

the world's problems,

capturing moments,

making your voices heard.

We might not realize it, but we'd

really hate not having energy.

We'd die not having it.

We can see the places in the world

with lots of cheap energy.

They're the places

with their lights on.

In these countries,

people live long and live well.

These lights mean millions of people

get to follow their dreams.

Somewhere behind one of these lights,

a child is studying hard,

and will grow up to invent

the next medical miracle.

Somewhere else there's a

Steve Jobs creating the things

we can't even imagine right now.

And somewhere else there's

a kid who will one day

write and make a movie

like Avatar

that nearly the whole world

will watch and enjoy.

But it's not like this everywhere.

In the dark places,

energy is scarce,

and life is cruel

and life is short.

People who live there can only dream

of what life could be like.

But their dreams will

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