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Roger Harrabin BBC News 13 December 2012 The government has given the go-ahead for a firm to resume the controversial technique known as fracking to exploit gas in Lancashire. The company, Cuadrilla, was stopped from fracking after two tremors near Blackpool. Conditions have been imposed to minimise the risk of seismic activity. In fracking, […] December 13th, 2012 | Tags: "climate change", AR5 WG1, Cuadrilla, Ed Davey, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), oil and gas drilling, shale | Category: Energy, Great Britain, United Nations | Comments are closed
Mike Ciandella CNS News 12/6/2012 Actor Matt Damon was surprised to learn his new anti-natural gas fracking movie was funded in part by Mideast oil nation the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Hydraulic fracking is a technique used to get natural gas out of the ground which could help make domestic natural gas a cheaper competitor […] December 8th, 2012 | Tags: "FrackNation", "Promised Land", conflict of interest, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Matt Damon, oil and gas drilling, Phelim McAleer, United Arab Emirates | Category: Energy, Environment, Hollywood, Middle East, Progressives | Comments are closed
Lachlan Markay The Foundry Heritage.org 9/28/2012 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 […] September 28th, 2012 | Tags: "Promised Land", fracking, gasoline prices, hypocrisy, Image Media Abu Dhabi, Matt Damon, oil and gas drilling, OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), United Arab Emirates | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Energy, Environment, Hollywood, Politics, Progressives | Comments are closed
Phelim McAleer The New York Post 9/26/2012 Matt Damon and John Krasinski ran into a big problem while making their film “Promised Land”; how they solved it tells us a lot about Hollywood. Some time ago, the two actors decided to make a movie about fracking — a method of getting once-inaccessible oil and gas […] September 26th, 2012 | Tags: "Promised Land", Dimock, fracking, fraud, ideology, Josh Fox, Matt Damon, Phelim McAleer, water, Wolf Eagle Environmental Engineers | Category: Colorado, Energy, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Hollywood, Pennsylvania, Progressives, Science/Research/Technology, Texas, Wyoming | Comments are closed
Phelim McAleer The New York Post 8/3/2012 Josh Fox: Stands by claims, against Susan G. Komen. Photo: Robert Kalfus Breast cancer is uniquely frightening. Almost everyone knows someone who’s had it, and too many of us know someone it’s killed. More than 40,000 Americans died of breast cancer last year alone — more […] August 4th, 2012 | Tags: "Gasland", "The Sky is Pink", Barnett, breast cancer, David Risser, Dimock, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Josh Fox, Phelim McAleer, Simon Craddock Lee, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Texas Cancer Registry. | Category: Environmental Protection Agency, Hollywood, Media accountability, Medicine, Pennsylvania, Texas | One comment - (Comments are closed)
Eager to end reliance on Russian natural gas, and largely untroubled by environmentalists, Polish officials are embracing hydraulic fracturing to unlock potentially huge deposits beneath their soil. Henry Chu Los Angeles Times 7/15/2012 GDANSK, Poland — Dreams of freedom from Soviet oppression were nurtured and realized in the shipyards of this seaside city, where the […] July 15th, 2012 | Tags: fracking, Gazprom, hydraulic fracturing, Ireland, natural gas, Poland, Qatar, rationing | Category: Energy, Europe, Great Britain, Russia | Comments are closed
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