Can UAE-Backed Film Shut Down U.S. Fracking Boom?

IBD EDITORIALS ^ | December 21, 2012

[raptor22]

Energy: As the U.S. changes the balance of power by exporting some of its abundant natural gas resources, a Hollywood propaganda film debuts claiming the technology making it possible will poison America's small towns.

'Promised Land," a film that does nothing to alter Hollywood's stereotype of businessmen, particularly energy industry executives, as greedy plunderers of the planet, opens this week in selected theatres.

The anti-fracking film is based on a not-true story about well contamination in a small Pennsylvania town with a healthy dose of junk science.

As documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who is working on his own documentary, "FrackNation", has pointed out, the inspiration for the film was a spate of news reports about alleged ground water contamination from fracking wells in Dimock, Pa. "Promised Land" is set in rural Pennsylvania.

At one point, Hollywood celebrities even brought water to 11 families who claimed fracking had destroyed their water and their lives.

The only problem, notes McAleer, is the claims were debunked by both the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Protection Agency, both of which found no evidence of contamination. But why spoil a good story with the facts?

The film about the alleged dangers of hydraulic fracturing, the scientific name for the process that uses fluids injected under pressure to shatter porous shale rock to release trapped oil and natural gas, comes amid a natural gas boom that has caused natural gas supplies to surge, promising both true energy independence and the prospect of the U.S. as a major energy exporter.

[Gay State Conservative]

Given that the average IQ of American voters today is about 70 it seems distinctly possible.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for posting this. I figured the movie was based on junk science, but didn’t know about the Arab oil money backing it.

[jonascord]

I'd be interested in knowing if there has been an actually truthful movie, derived from a real event, that has been released in, say, the last 120 years.

You know, one that doesn't require a legal disclaimer that sidesteps law suits?

[jonascord]

I'd be interested in knowing if there has been an actually truthful movie, derived from a real event, that has been released in, say, the last 120 years.

You know, one that doesn't require a legal disclaimer that sidesteps law suits?

[raptor22]

[wtd]

Perhaps the video documentary Truthland may be of interest as it was made in direct response against the anti fracking film "gasland" which covers the same nonsensical arguments against fracking.

[wesagain]

Did the Saudi’s pay for Obama’s college education?

[hosepipe]

With most americans operating at a five year old logic level.. its possible..
You do know... most democrats are women.. or most women are democrats..

Not all BUT most are intellectually abused by the public screwls..
and any not effected are brain washed by the culture..
Don’t look good..

Many think that being a patriot is by being a traitor..
performing sedition and virtual espionage.. ON PURPOSE...

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Evidence: The current occupant of the White Hut.. duly elected by voter fraud and mob rule by mobsters(unions).. that is himself a pathological liar.. and probably worse..

[raptor22]

[RedMonqey]

I'm sure "fracking " has it's problems with retrieval but so is drilling oil.

I wish our farm had natural gas....well other than cow and pig farts;-)

Face it. Oil is natural. It's can be found anywhere in the world.

So is Natural gas.

If the EPA and the environmentalist had been around when petroleum was first drilled on an indusrial scale, they would be spreading horror stories of the dangers of petroleum home lamp oil and whales would be extinct.(whale oil was used to light homes in the 1800's and were nearly driven to extinction by the fleets of whaling ships)

And we would be freezing in the winter and dodging horse sh@t from the millions of horse drawn carriages in the streets....in the heat of summer.

Talk about environmental hazard.(gag!!)

[Nateman]

When I first saw the ads in the theater: I bet the Arabs are behind this to keep prices high and liberals are brain dead and emotionally driven enough to believe it. I even said this is blatant propaganda the first time I saw the movie ad out loud.

[RedMonqey]

You do know... most democrats are women.. or most women are democrats..

My mom is one of them. However she didn't vote for obama... either time. She's wants Hillary in the WH....(sighs)

[hosepipe]

Did the Saudi’s pay for Obama’s college education?

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No... that would be the american taxpayer.. that payed for everything to support him, his mother, grand parents, all his teachers, police that watched over him, and firefighters that watched over his landlords property..

The stupid taxpayer is being milked like farm animals to support his lifestyle and always has.. American “Cows” paid for his education.. “Cash Cows”....

And they are being punished for this heinous crime currently..
AND WILL BE punished much more severely in the next four years..
UNLESS..... the democrat party decides to Martyr him..
To Martin Luther-ize him.. with the obligatory year long funeral.. maybe longer..

[nascarnation]

I'd be interested in knowing if there has been an actually truthful movie, derived from a real event, that has been released in, say, the last 120 years.

[nascarnation]

When I first saw the ads in the theater

That's your first problem....

[raptor22]

[txhurl]

bttt

[wesagain]

Who Paid Obama's Tuition?

[jonascord]

So, that’s a grand total of 1? Out of how many hundreds of thousands? Statistically, that really stinks...