Anti fracking movie financed by oil rich Arabs

Lachlan Markey:
A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

The creators of Promised Land have gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe’s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing – a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations – Promised Land’s script has been altered to make doom-saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate “fracking” concerns.

While left-leaning Hollywood often targets supposed environmental evildoers, Promised Land was also produced “in association with” Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, according to the preview’s list of credits. A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which is running PR for the film, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE.
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This movie was originally was based on the fraudulent premise that fracking was causing pollution of water supplies.  When it was discovered that those making the claims were frauds, they changed to move to make the bogus claim that the oil companies were doing this to discredit the environmental wackos.  What this story exposes is the unholy alliance between the wackos and OPED beneficiaries who would also like to stop drilling in the US.

This is not the first fraudulent movie attacking fracking, but it  to be one that further discredits those who oppose fracking.  Hollywood's energy Luddites strike again.

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