Fracking Fiction

[Geee]

National Review:

A word of warning: It’s impossible to review Promised Land, the new movie written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski and directed by Gus Van Sant, without giving away its twist ending. Though the plot turn is fumbling in its execution, it is the slyest tactic in the movie’s clumsy crusade against fracking, the process of injecting high-pressure chemicals, water, and sand into the ground to access vast quantities of otherwise inaccessible natural gas.

Here’s the premise: Steve Butler (Damon) is a corporate salesman who draws on his rural roots to persuade farmers to sell their land to a fracking company. Recalling his childhood in a dying farm town, Steve sees natural gas as an economic savior for struggling residents — a backstory that’s supposed to add moral nuance to his character. But when Steve and his colleague Sue (Frances McDormand) arrive in a small Pennsylvania town, acquiring the land proves tougher than they expected.

Environmental activist Dustin Noble (Krasinski) shows up, handing out pictures of dead cows and telling the townspeople the tragic tale of how his Nebraska family farm was lost because the cattle drank water contaminated by fracking. But — plot twist! — Steve discovers that the supposed silo in Dustin’s pictures is in fact a lighthouse, something one does not typically find in Nebraska. It turns out the picture is actually from Louisiana, but — bigger twist!! — fracking really did kill the cow, so it’s still bad. And — biggest twist!!! — Dustin is a double agent who secretly works for the same energy corporation as Steve. By destroying the credibility of environmentalist opposition, Dustin has primed the town to do whatever the evil energy corporation wants. Meanwhile, it’s up to the increasingly conflicted Steve to Do the Right Thing.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Updates on America’s booming energy sector

Mark J. Perry

December 31, 2012

 

America’s energy industry continues to be one of the strongest engines of growth for the U.S. economy, thanks to the advanced drilling technologies that have given energy companies access to oil- and gas-saturated shale rock formations from Texas to North Dakota to Pennsylvania. The news coming from the U.S. oil and gas industry continues to be incredibly positive and provides one of the best reasons to be optimistic about the future of America’s economy. The ongoing investments in domestic energy production, along with investments in steel, chemical and plastic plants to take advantage of America’s abundant shale gas will provide a powerful economic stimulus to the U.S. economy and will continue to create thousands, and maybe millions, of shovel-ready jobs.

 

Here are some recent energy updates:

 

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MP: America’s economic future looks a lot brighter thanks to the energy revolution that started just a few years ago because of the advanced drilling technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, which have doubled production of oil in Texas in just three years, and “flipped the cost equation” for energy-intensive manufacturing.

 

 

 

Have no fear. I am sure that the Obama administration is even now working on plans to put a halt to this!

[Draggingtree]

@Geee

 

Updates on America’s booming energy sector

Mark J. Perry

December 31, 2012

 

America’s energy industry continues to be one of the strongest engines of growth for the U.S. economy, thanks to the advanced drilling technologies that have given energy companies access to oil- and gas-saturated shale rock formations from Texas to North Dakota to Pennsylvania. The news coming from the U.S. oil and gas industry continues to be incredibly positive and provides one of the best reasons to be optimistic about the future of America’s economy. The ongoing investments in domestic energy production, along with investments in steel, chemical and plastic plants to take advantage of America’s abundant shale gas will provide a powerful economic stimulus to the U.S. economy and will continue to create thousands, and maybe millions, of shovel-ready jobs.

 

Here are some recent energy updates:

 

(Snip)

 

MP: America’s economic future looks a lot brighter thanks to the energy revolution that started just a few years ago because of the advanced drilling technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, which have doubled production of oil in Texas in just three years, and “flipped the cost equation” for energy-intensive manufacturing.

 

 

 

Have no fear. I am sure that the Obama administration is even now working on plans to put a halt to this!

All the up-take on production is happening on private land not on Gov./ Leases (land).

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Updates on America’s booming energy sector

Mark J. Perry

December 31, 2012

 

America’s energy industry continues to be one of the strongest engines of growth for the U.S. economy, thanks to the advanced drilling technologies that have given energy companies access to oil- and gas-saturated shale rock formations from Texas to North Dakota to Pennsylvania. The news coming from the U.S. oil and gas industry continues to be incredibly positive and provides one of the best reasons to be optimistic about the future of America’s economy. The ongoing investments in domestic energy production, along with investments in steel, chemical and plastic plants to take advantage of America’s abundant shale gas will provide a powerful economic stimulus to the U.S. economy and will continue to create thousands, and maybe millions, of shovel-ready jobs.

 

Here are some recent energy updates:

 

(Snip)

 

MP: America’s economic future looks a lot brighter thanks to the energy revolution that started just a few years ago because of the advanced drilling technologies of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, which have doubled production of oil in Texas in just three years, and “flipped the cost equation” for energy-intensive manufacturing.

 

 

 

Have no fear. I am sure that the Obama administration is even now working on plans to put a halt to this!

All the up-take on production is happening on private land not on Gov./ Leases (land).

 

 

Hence The Bold.