May 20, 2013

Celebs join the anti-fracking bandwagon

Update 1-3-13 9:50 pm.

H/t Kenny Solomon.

Matt Damon has been called a “liar” by the maker of the pro-fracking film “Frack Nation,” Phelim McAleer. According to Politico McAleer plans on erecting billboards in New York like the rendition below:

Sweet, sweet Karma.

Original post begins below.

First we have a fellow by the name of Josh Fox who made the incendiary anti-fracking film called Gasland. Josh Fox ranaround the country trying to set tap water on fire in fracking areas. The film won a Sundance award and went on to be nominated for an Academay Award for “best documentary.” Hint: it lost. But Fox became an overnight faux celebrity with the Hollywood crowd until it was proven tap water in these areas at times could be “set on fire” even well before fracking ever took place.

Actor Mark Ruffalo was placed on the “Terrorism Watch List” by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Homeland Security over his efforts to organize screenings for Gasland. 

Now we have other members of the *Hollywood Elite* jumping on the anti-fracking bandwagon as well. Apparently Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Matt Damon got tired of counting their millions and have too much time on their hands so they have made anti-fracking their projet du jour.

Yoko and Lennon had this billboard placed in New York on a route well-traveled by New York Governor Cuomo to urge him to continue the moratorium on some methods of natural gas fracking in the state:

And if this isn’t enough, now actor Matt Damon is making a film called Promised Land which is apparently so one-sided against fracking the liberal blog Huffington Post has even denounced it:

What has also became remarkably apparent is that we are dealing with an American resource that is in such abundant supply that it portends to become a major game changer for our economy, bringing thousands upon thousands of jobs into the field and to ancillary industries that are supplying the infrastructure hardware.[sic] Their [editor's note: see underneath this quote who *their* is.] forthcoming film Promised Land is meant to frighten Americans, and whomever, to resist the development of shale gas in their communities. No mention here of the long suffering communities of Pennsylvania who have celebrated an economic renaissance through the development and extraction of natural gas from the vast Marcellus Gas Formation.

And you will never guess who is bank-rolling this film: none other than Image Media Abu Dhabi. Yep. And in case you have forgotten who the charter members of OPEC are, Abu Dhabi is one.

The film has been dubbed “Good Will Fracking” and thankfully is showing only modest reviews but of course praised by environmentalists. But fracking companies such as Chesapeake Energy have been fighting back and launched The Real Promised Land highlighting testimony of those across the nation who are in support of fracking.

Pennsylvania gubernatorial Democrat candidate John Hanger had this to say about the film:

“It’s entertainment, and pretty silly entertainment,” said former Pennsylvania environmental regulator John Hanger. “It doesn’t pretend to deal with the real issues.”

And from a Washington Post review:

“Promised Land” fizzes and pops; otherwise it’s an attractive, well-intentioned dry well.

Box office stats last weekend revealed the film has only made $190,150 in 25 select theaters across the nation.

This author hopes it stays this way and believes these *Hollywood Elite* should stay away from subjects they know little or nothing about for the sake of our nations’s jobs and struggle for energy independence.

Crossposted at Unified Patriots and Grumpy Opinions

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Rep. Bob Latta to fight “pain at the pump”

Bob LattaFYI I am proud to be in this gentleman’s district, OH #5. He has received a 100% rating from the American Conservative Union.

Rep. Latta is a leader of the Republican Study Committee Energy Task Force and yesterday introduced the Consumer Relief for Pain at the Pump Act. H.R. 1777.

Via his press release this bill would do the following:

  • Repeals the Obama permatorium on America’s outer continental shelf;
  • Opens up ANWR to exploration and production;
  • Establishes a streamlined process for permitting and lease sales;
  • Increases access to onshore oil, including shale oil;
  • Blocks burdensome and unnecessary regulations; and
  • Simplifies the judicial review process to limit frivolous environmental litigation on leases and permits that would indefinitely halt energy production.

This bill if signed into law would create thousands of jobs, put dollars back into the economy and send a message to OPEC the U.S. is serious about tapping her own energy resources. This bill frees up our own energy resources and can make us finally on the path to energy independence which will also make us free from outside entities in the Middle East which are controlling the price of oil. It also would end the de facto Obama Gulf of Mexico moratorium which has contributed to so much misery for the Gulf states which trickles down to the rest of us.

“Repealing federal policies, stopping the EPA’s backdoor energy tax, halting the President’s drilling permatorium and unlocking energy resources both on and offshore will help alleviate the pain at the pump.”

Thank you Congressman Latta.

Related articles: House GOP announces H.E.A.T. The House Energy Action Team

Crossposted at Unified Patriots

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Trump goes after Obama on gas prices

Reality show producer and real estate mogul Donald Trump criticized Mr. Obama on his failure to rein in the cost of gasoline for consumers. Gas in most parts of the country is at least $4 per gallon and in some places approaching $5 per gallon.

Last week Mr. Obama announced a DOJ investigation into possible “criminalities” involving the high gasoline prices, however “The Donald” has said Obama is “100% wrong” that he cannot do anything about the price. Here is what he had to say:

Last Tuesday Obama sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) proclaiming there is “no silver bullet” to address the rising cost of gasoline.

Trump says otherwise:

“Yesterday, our president said that he has very little impact over the price of gasoline,” Trump told reporters. “I think he’s 100 percent wrong because OPEC is setting the price of fuel.”

Trump asserts because the U.S. provides a multitude of protection for Saudi Arabia they have no right to raise the price of oil and that “no one is talking to them about this.”

Saudi Arabia announced several days ago they would be cutting back on production to fuel demand and raise prices. Trump also says Obama could use military deployments as “leverage.”

Obama said he is already in talks with oil producing countries and pointed out if prices go too high it would be to the detriment of the global economy.

ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

Several things are majorly bothering me here. Trump would not like to see some sort of military intervention ruled out in the middle east to “leverage” the Middle-Eastern oil-producing countries to bring down prices.

With the U.S. involved in Libya and tensions mounting in other OPEC countries with protests and government crackdowns, somehow I don’t really think this is a good idea.

Also Mr. Trump. You failed to mention a couple of facts. The United States has plenty of her own oil, however Mr. Obama has a de facto drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico and many rigs have left the Gulf in frustration. The EPA  and BOEMRE under Obama’s control have made the acquirement of drilling and air permits so difficult many oil companies are throwing up their hands in frustration and giving up even though they may have already invested millions of dollars in the project. Witness Shell, the only permitee in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea announcing they will be leaving the project before drilling is begun.

It’s a known fact in 2008 when gasoline prices were at $4 per gallon,  when President Bush eased off-shore drilling restrictions the price of gasoline immediately went down.

Love or hate the system, that is how the market reacts. Mr. Trump, you need to get off the rhetoric of using “blackmail” against OPEC countries to ease the price of oil and gas. Let’s start using our own.

Related articles: Shell pulls the plug on Alaska drilling

Lack of drilling in Gulf even one year after BP spill

Crossposted at Unified Patriots News

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