Hollywood's anti fracking fraud

Phelim McAleer:

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I broke the news that “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.” 

So, according to sources close to the movie, they’ve come up with a solution — suggest that anti-fracking fraudsters are really secret agents employed by the fossil-fuel industry to discredit the environmental movement. 

In the revised script, Damon exposes Krasinski as a fraud — only to realize that Krasinski’s character is working deep undercover for the oil industry to smear fracking opponents.
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The problem with this latest plot twist is that the industry doesn't need to discredit the anti frackers because they do it themselves with their bogus charges and in this case a bogus movie.  This movie is another example of the anti energy left's Luddite attitude toward science and the reality of the shale gas revolution that is making their favored alternatives less competitive.

Hollywood just does not seem to have writers and producers who comprehend how business is done at major oil companies.  Like Obama and others on the left, they tend to look at these people as the enemy rather than people who make it possible for them to turn on the lights and go to work.  That says something pretty profound about their world view.

Perhaps someone should make a movie about the dishonest crap being produced by the Hollywood leftist.