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Promised Land

Ohiosam

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Mahoning Co.
Gee looks like the a-rabs are a little worried.


"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 gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe’s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing – a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations – Promised Land’s script has been altered to make doom-saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate “fracking” concerns.

While left-leaning Hollywood often targets supposed environmental evildoers, Promised Land was also produced “in association with” Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, according to the preview’s list of credits. A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which runs PR for Participant Media, the company that developed the film fund backing Promised Land, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE."


http://blog.heritage.org/2012/...il-rich-arab-nation/
 

Huckleberry Finn

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Fuck that bullshit...

I'm planning on seeing it, but the coward little fucker can only pay for showings in NJ and California....bullshit.

Can you tell I feel strongly about this!?

Dumbass will even tell you that it was supposed to be an anti-wind film when they started it, but then they switch it. Whoops. Anyone realize that anti-wind and anti-fracking are a difference?

Don't want to ruin the movie for anyone, but they manage to make big oil/gas look bad EVEN though they changed the storyline in light of all of the rulings about Cabot in Dimock.

Fuck Matt Damon and fuck the gasland guy