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Who is funding the new Hollywood/Damon FRACKING movie

Tam

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Fracking has brought about a energy surge in the US that has created thousands of US JOBS and even though the EPA tried to claim it was bad for the enviroment, they couldn't prove it. So now Hollywood/Matt Damon is making a movie on Fracking and guess who is funding the movie. :?

Matt Damon fracking film backed by big OPEC member
By Steve HargreavesOctober 1, 2012: 12:54 PM ET

Matt Damon's new fracking film is generating controversy over its funding.

Matt Damon's new film on fracking, "Promised Land", is generating some buzz -- though probably not the kind studio execs were hoping for.

Last week, the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation pointed out that in the trailer for film, one of the financial backers listed is Image Nation Abu Dhabi.

Image Nation Abu Dhabi is, in turn, owned by Abu Dhabi Media - a state media company for the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, an OPEC member, is the world's third-largest oil exporter.

For a film that highlights the dangers of fracking -- the controversial process that has unleashed an energy boom in the United Sates -- this may be problematic, as evidenced by Twitter posts Monday:

The third largest oil exporting country in the World is funding a US movie trying to make Fracking look bad. Gee I wonder WHY? Does Liberal Left Obama Supporter Matt Damon really hate US jobs that much that he would take money from a GREEDY FOREIGN OIL PRODUCING COUNTRY to fund his efforts to DESTROY US JOBS? :roll:
 

Steve

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“Promised Land” was about fracking and now I can reveal that the script’s seen some very hasty rewriting because of real-world evidence that anti-fracking activists may be the true villains.

In courtroom after courtroom, it has been proved that anti-fracking activists have been guilty of fraud or misrepresentation.

There was Dimock, Pa. — the likely inspiration for “Promised Land,” which is also set in Pennsylvania. Dimock featured in countless news reports, with Hollywood celebrities even bringing water to 11 families who claimed fracking had destroyed their water and their lives.

But while “Promised Land” was in production, the story of Dimock collapsed. The state investigated and its scientists found nothing wrong. So the 11 families insisted EPA scientists investigate. They did — and much to the dismay of the environmental movement found the water was not contaminated.

There was Wolf Eagle Environmental Engineers in Texas, a group that produced a frightening video of a flaming house water pipe and claimed a gas company had polluted the water. But a judge just found that the tape was an outright fraud — Wolf Eagle connected the house gas pipe to a hose and lit the water.

Other “pollution” cases collapsed in Wyoming and Colorado. Even Josh Fox, who with his Oscar-nominated documentary “Gasland” first raised concerns about flammable water, has had to admit he withheld evidence that fracking was not responsible.

These frauds and misrepresentations created huge problems for the Damon/Krasinski script about “what defines us as a country.”

The simple truth about fracking is that much of the opposition is being driven by proven liars, charlatans and fraudsters — some driven by zealotry, others by hunger to win a big lawsuit.

There is a war going on in parts of America between impoverished locals and urban elites. These elites are using fraud, exaggeration and celebrity star power to stop rural communities from prospering through gas drilling.
 
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