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Chris Faulkner: A Real Look At The Oil Industry’s Self-Proclaimed Frack Master
Texas Observer ^ | 06-07-2015 | Steve

Posted on 07/06/2015 9:18:34 AM PDT by bananaman22

CNN International host Richard Quest strides across the studio and extends his hand to his round-faced, goateed guest. “Breitling Energy is a U.S. company that goes into fracking in a big way,” Quest says. “We have the man who’s called the ‘fracking master’ because you do so much of it.” And so continues Chris Faulkner’s seemingly endless series of TV interviews.

Faulkner is CEO of Breitling Energy Corp., and during the last three years he has become the media’s go-to voice from Texas in favor of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. His 45-minute Powering America show and one-minute “Oil and Gas Today” spots were heard all last year on KRLD, the CBS radio affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth. As Quest got almost right, Faulkner goes by the moniker “Frack Master.”

But is Chris Falkner really a Frack Master? The man who calls himself frack master actually has a really short history as an oilman... In fact, Falkner likes to see himself as a tech entrepreneur, TV star, publicity genius and international fracking advocate

But... the reality is shockingly different and this is why:

(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: corporatesociopath; fracking; frackmaster; oil

1 posted on 07/06/2015 9:18:35 AM PDT by bananaman22
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To: thackney

Petro Ping


2 posted on 07/06/2015 9:27:15 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: bananaman22

Read the entire article. He seems to be a shady character, part hustler, part shyster. Is that your take?


3 posted on 07/06/2015 9:29:55 AM PDT by Fungi
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To: Army Air Corps

really short history...

Self-Proclaimed...

This is a story about the media, not about hydraulic fracturing.

They are more interested in easy talking point rather than real information.


4 posted on 07/06/2015 9:30:15 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Fungi

Shady at best I would say...


5 posted on 07/06/2015 9:32:11 AM PDT by bananaman22
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To: thackney
They are more interested in easy talking point rather than real information.

That is the American Soviet Media in a nutshell.
6 posted on 07/06/2015 9:37:19 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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