FrackNation, the controversial film about fracking, will have its world premiere in Manhattan on Monday, January 7. The documentary will show at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time at Chelsea Cinema.
The red carpet premiere in Manhattan comes as Promised Land, Matt Damon's anti-fracking movie, opens across the country.
"It's time Hollywood celebrities and environmentalists were asked some difficult questions about their anti-fracking activities and ideologies. And that's what FrackNation does," said Phelim McAleer, co-director and presenter of the documentary. "I'm particularly glad FrackNation is premiering in New York. New Yorkers are especially tuned in to arguments about fracking. But the film could premiere anywhere in America because fracking is such an important issue."
As part of the promotion of the film, FrackNation producers have released a TV spot that exposes what they claim is the misinformation and misrepresentation at the heart of the Dimock, PA lawsuit by anti-fracking activists. The ad shows how one family became angry when they were told the good news that their water was not contaminated.
FrackNation features investigative journalist Phelim McAleer on a journey that takes him across America to find the truth about fracking. As he asked environmentalists difficult questions about their often emotional campaigns against fracking, McAleer was met with bogus lawsuits, slammed doors and gun threats.
FrackNation was funded through the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. The filmmakers raised $212,265 from 3,305 backers on Kickstarter on April 6, 2012. It was one of the most successful documentary campaigns in the history of Kickstarter.
Gerald Celente is against Fracking. He makes sense on the issue.
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DeleteCelente is also against the free market.
"Celente is also against the free market."
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Celente is entertaining, but he is no "Rothbardian."
ReplyDeleteTo Bob Wenzel - what are your thoughts on fracking? I would imagine you're pro-fracking though people have the right to sue if their land/water/air is damaged. What about the idea, though, that maybe the land/water/air won't be usable again? Thus, if this is done on a wide-scale, how can people be compensated monetarily?
ReplyDeleteI don't see how property rights can't be applied to the second part of your comment either. Most things aren't usable forever. Supply and demand and the price system take over so that people don't waste products and completely eliminate them from existence, if they are truly valuable.
DeleteWorst case? How could a gas fart render a place unusable FOREVER????
DeleteNever thought they would be catchin' (edible) fish in the East River. EVER. But now they are. After 10 years of non-pollution. The Earth Abides, baby. (see G. Carlin)
People like to come up with some crazy theories on things sometimes. And when you burst their bubble, they fight it tooth and nail. Most people don't know what fracking is or have any geological insight into potential problems (if any) but will adamantly say it is bad. Saw a guy on Twitter saying that Hurricane Sandy was caused? or steered? or something by the US government.
ReplyDeleteThis guy reminds me of the Guy that thinks the govt. knows how to steer hurricanes. He lists off a bunch of stuff that would be likely to be found in any water sample (Iron, sodium, chloride etc) like the only way it could have gotten in the water is by fracking. You never find minerals in water so if it is there, it must be because of fracking. Hmmm... Sodium and Chloride, that sounds familiar... oh yeah sodium chloride is common table salt. It is a molecule with an ionic bond between Sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl-) that when dissolved in water separates into Sodium and Chloride ions. I would hate to ingest such a harmful chemical into my body.
It is true most people, myself included, are not experts in fracking or weather technology. There is no way to know the truth on these issues without actually being an expert.
ReplyDeleteIt makes no sense for a non-expert to discount any possibilities based purely on what he is told, often by other non experts or worse experts with an egenda who are liars.
We know for example that the Chinese have a weather modification bureau and can make it rain or not rain by seeding clouds in different areas, so pertaining to weather technology is the Chinese government that much more advanced in this area than ours or is out govt just more secretive?
Cloud seeding is hit or miss. It didn't work very well for the Chinese when they were trying to do it for the olympics. But this is just basic thermodynamics to try to alter conditions in favor of rain. Steering hurricanes is completely outlandish if you have any background knowledge of such things. But like you said most people don't have any knowledge of such things. So, rain seeding means they must know how to manufacture and steer hurricanes, volcanoes, etc. to the untrained mind. This video just reminded me of people with no technical knowledge making a big claim with no evidence. I mean, the guy listed Iron and salt as some of the bad chemicals in the water. To someone who doesn't know any better, their chemical names sound harmful but are absolutely normal and harmless.
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