Big Oil mounts Tobacco Playbook response to Gasland II with big money, "crockumentaries"

[wtmusic]

"Big Oil has deployed the "Tobacco Playbook" once again, this time in response to the release of "Gasland 2."

It comes in the form of a documentary film titled, "FrackNation," whose co-directors' funding in the past came from Donors Capital and Donors Trust, referred to by Mothers Jones' Andy Kroll as "the dark-money ATM of the right" and a major source of funding for climate change denial.

Both "Gasland 2" and "FrackNation" cover hydraulic fracturing ("fracking&quot , the toxic horizontal drilling process via which unconventional oil and gas is obtained from shale rock basins around the country and world. Co-produced and co-directed by Irish couple Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, "FrackNation" purports to be "funded by the 99 percent to combat the misrepresentations by the 1 percent of urban elites who want to tell rural Americans how to work and live.""

http://desmogblog.com/2013/06/03/exposed-fracknation-deploys-tobacco-playbook-response-gasland-2

[Buzz Clik]

1. "the toxic horizontal drilling process" Er, what?

It's mindless bullshit like this that destroys arguments.

Damn.

[wtmusic]

2. +1 nt