Big Oil Propaganda goes celluloid

[marmar]

(MarketWatch) The Independent Petroleum Association of America is striking back at the negative depiction of hydraulic fracturing in the2010 HBO movie “Gasland” by Josh Fox, with a new movie of its own.

The trade group, which counts Chesapeake Energy Corp., Southwestern Energy Co. SWN, and ConocoPhillips among its many members, on Wednesday marked the official release of “Truthland”, the story of a Pennsylvania mom interviewing experts about “Gasland” in a 32-minute film financed by the IPAA.

In one of the most notorious clips from “Gasland,” a homeowner living near a well lights his drinking water on fire as it comes out of the kitchen tap. In “Truthland”, the mom reenacts the same scene with a homeowner who lives nowhere near a fracking operation. Experts point out that methane leaks into drinking water all the time and it has nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the process used for decades to extract oil and natural gas from shale.

“Truthland” points out that none of the experts appearing in the movie were paid for their time in a move to assure folks that the opinions expressed therein are real. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/06/13/fracking-fans-seek-to-counter-gasland-with-new-movie-truthland/

[MisterP]

1. probably will go over as well as the anti-"Lorax"

http://www.amazon.com/Birkett-Softcover-booklet-Written-published/dp/B0019HI9LK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339617371&sr=8-1

[TalkingDog]

2. I second your eye roll

and raise you:

[Arctic Dave]

3. Yeah, because an oil corporation exec would never lie.

The checks in the mail...

[Frack Glop]

4. Gas/Oil backed group, Energy-In-Depth is pumping the movie

Gas/Oil backed group, Energy-In-Depth is pumping the movie

for more info on EID:

Energy-in-Depth (EID): The “GAS”roots
Connecting the Dots: The Marcellus Natural Gas Play Players – Part 3
By Dory Hippauf
http://commonsense2.com/2012/02/naturalgasdrilling/connecting-the-dots-the-marcellus-natural-gas-play-players-part-3/