Gas driller halts distribution of coloring book

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Talisman Terry, the "friendly Fracosaurus" star of a coloring book published by Talisman Energy, will no longer explain the natural gas drilling process to youngsters after the company announced plans today to stop distribution of the controversial children's book.

"Talisman Terry's Energy Adventure" was a 24-page booklet that explained natural gas drilling in kid-friendly fashion and could be downloaded from the Calgary-based energy company's website. It had been distributed at community fairs in northeastern Pennsylvania through the company's Good Neighbor program. Talisman Terry's message is overt and unapologetic: drilling for natural gas in formations like the Marcellus Shale is smart, safe and American.

In the coloring book, the same plot of land doesn't look much different in the "Before Drilling" and "After Drilling" illustrations. If anything, the "after" image seems more pastoral: new trees have been planted, a bald eagle soars over the hill, a rainbow has appeared.

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And on Monday, Terry was treated to a vicious lampooning by comedian Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." Mr. Colbert presented doctored pages he said had gone missing from the book, the last of which showed a depressed Fracosaurus lighting himself on fire in the shower.







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[KittyWampus]

1. Colbert presented doctored pages-the last showed a depressed Fracosaurus lighting himself on fire

Mr. Colbert presented doctored pages he said had gone missing from the book, the last of which showed a depressed Fracosaurus lighting himself on fire in the shower.

[Kolesar]

2. That segment is worth surfing over to comedycentral.com to watch

Colbert's narrations are killer-funny
www.comedycentral.com
http://www.colbertnation.com/

[Wilms]

3. Here's a link.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/391552/july-11-2011/anti-frack-attack

[Kolesar]

8. thx kick

[gratuitous]

5. You posted that twice

It's strange, this ("Mr. Colbert presented doctored pages he said had gone missing from the book, the last of which showed a depressed Fracosaurus lighting himself on fire in the shower.") showed up in both the subject and the body of your post:

"Mr. Colbert presented doctored pages he said had gone missing from the book, the last of which showed a depressed Fracosaurus lighting himself on fire in the shower."

Probably because it was that fucking funny.

"Mr. Colbert presented doctored pages he said had gone missing from the book, the last of which showed a depressed Fracosaurus lighting himself on fire in the shower."

[KittyWampus]

6. I could probably post it a few more times. It's worth it.

God he's funny.

[TlalocW]

4. Where's the Lorax?

Who will speak for the trees?

TlalocW

[Divine Discontent]

7. does it show the Fracosaurus and all his saurus friends getting covered in oil and dying when the

well explodes and all their fracking chemicals smother and kill them all?

[katnapped]

9. And the neat flames coming out of the faucet

And the toilet?