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From
Investors Business Daily:
Can UAE-Backed Film Shut Down U.S. Fracking Boom?
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?
Given their anti--energy development bias, if the EPA says something is junk science, it must really be junk science.
A bit more:
States like the United Arab Emirates, an OPEC member, are threatened by the oil and natural gas boom in shale formations like the Bakken in North Dakota and the Marcellus in, yes, Pennsylvania. The film's nothing more than an anti-fracking infomercial paid for by an Arab oil state.
It should not surprise that major funding for the film, according to the Heritage Foundation's Lachlan Markey, comes from Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media.
"A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which runs PR for Participant Media, the company that developed the film fund backing "Promised Land", confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE," Mackey writes.
And oh yeah -- there is a scene of water coming out of a tap being lit on fire. Bzzzzt:
A scene in the movie shows a character setting fire to tap water.
The inspiration for that was a video produced by Wolf Eagle Environmental Engineers in Texas that showed a flaming house water pipe and claimed a gas company had polluted the water. But Texas State District Judge Trey Loftin ruled in a lawsuit that the video was a fraud and that Wolf Eagle had connected the house gas pipe to a hose and then lit the water.
The Arabs are just watching out after their own interests. We could shut down our imports and enjoy cheap fossil fuel for the next five hundred years but noooooo, we don't have the political balls to do that... That five hundred years would be ample time to get
fusion and
LFTR reactors online making petroleum just an industrial chemical feedstock and something to use for airlines and boats.
Posted by DaveH at December 25, 2012 2:11 PM