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'FrackNation': Filmmaker to scout locations, including Dickinson, in North Dakota next week
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/56978/
(snip)...Ann McElhinney, who will speak in Minot on Tuesday and Bismarck on Wednesday, also plans to visit Dickinson, Williston and Glendive, Mont., during her trip.
McElhinney said this will be her first visit to the Bakken and shes anxious to see the activity.
(snip).....The film, being produced by Los Angeles-based company Ann and Phelim Media, is a response to the anti-fracking movie Gasland by Josh Fox.
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves shooting water and sand laced with chemicals underground to create channels in the rock to recover fossil fuels.
Foxs film presents a shocking anti-fracking argument, but McElhinney said its based on emotions and anecdotes.
In the past, I have discovered that environmentalists are not always truth tellers, she said.
McElhinney and her husband, Phelim McAleer, also directed Not Evil Just Wrong, which challenged Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth.
The money shot for Foxs film is a scene where tap water is lit on fire, McElhinney said.
McAleer confronted Fox during a question-and-answer event about why he didnt mention in the film that historical references indicate people were able to ignite natural gas in their water before fracking began. Fox replied that it wasnt relevant, McElhinney said.
We thought it was relevant, and we then started checking out the other claims in the film, she said.
McElhinney said they heard a stratospherically opposite story from scientists and ordinary people affected by fracking restrictions.
Fundraising for FrackNation is continuing online at fracknation.com through this morning. The donations are on track to reach $200,000.
McElhinney said she is working to get FrackNation distributed before the November election.
Meanwhile, HBO has paid Fox $750,000 for Gasland II, McElhinney said.
And McElhinney said shes learned that Matt Damon is set to star in a Hollywood anti-fracking movie directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring John Krasinski.
Theyll put together a very terrifying film, McElhinney said
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Some very key words are, "... working to get FrackNation distributed before the November election.
I am curious to know just who else is behind the push for this documentary
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)My guess is that the oil and gas industry are big contributors.
We shall see.
Blaze Diem
(3,384 posts)the new Matt Damon story coming out they might be in need of some damage control.
I have been told that the fracking they do is so powerful that it can crack & disrupt the casing of existing wells nearby.
They won't ever convince me that its not a destructive process
blockhead
(1,081 posts)I don't trust any oil company.
Blaze Diem
(3,384 posts)Anxious to see it