‘FrackNation’ Filmmakers Post Pro-Fracking Billboard Negating ‘Gasland’ Misconceptions
- Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:00pm by
Liz Klimas
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One of the most frightening pieces of evidence in Josh Fox’s 2010 documentary against hydraulic fracturing — Gasland — is a clip showing tap water being set on fire. Filmmaker and journalist Phelim McAleer isn’t trying to deny that the water is flammable, but he is trying to say that it’s not a result of “fracking,” a controversial process used to extract natural gas from shale rock.
According to McAleer, his wife Ann McElhinney and Magda Segieda who are working showing a different side of fracking, water has been flammable in some parts of the country since 1669. Not only are they creating a documentary of their own — FrackNation — to debunk what they believe are untruths told in Gasland, but more recently, they’ve posted a billboard on Route 17 in Rock Hill, N.Y., toward Pennsylvania to spread the word about the history of flammable water.
“This is something that people need to know,” McAleer said in an interview with the Blaze. “The truth needs to be told.”
(Photo: FrackNation)
According to McAleer, Fox picked a powerful image to spread an anti-fracking message but the ability to light water on fire, seemingly an oxymoron, is nothing new. McAleer sites Native Americans and early settlers referring to “burning springs.” There are several areas around the country, including in West Virginia, Kentucky and New York, where natural gas has been reported to bubble up through water making it ignitable.
Here you can see the clip from Gasland with the water being set on fire:
McAleer, who said he hates to say this, said in this instance Fox is an “unethical journalist.” McAleer references a time when he publicly questioned Fox about his exploitation of burning water in the documentary without acknowledging that this phenomenon has been known outside of fracking. Fox responded saying it wasn’t “relevant” to the documentary to include that information.
“Even if it’s not relevant, you have to bring it up to knock it down, ” McAleer said explaining what would be a good journalistic move. “But he doesn’t do that.”
In fact, McAleer filmed Fox’s initial response and posted it on YouTube. It was when Fox’s “Manhattan lawyers” forcibly had the clip taken down that McAleer decided there was a story there; that something was being hidden.
“As an Irishman, I am not used to being told to shut up,” McAleer said, noting that this moment is what spurred he and his wife to begin making the documentary FrackNation.
McAleer fought the video being taken down and won. His confrontation with Fox now remains posted on the site. Check it out:
In a statement, McAleer said “As journalists, we felt it was important to bring to light the truth and counter the common, inaccurate scare stories about ‘exploding tap water.’”
When asked by the Blaze if flammable water has been around for centuries, then why is it now being associated as a negative impact of fracking, a process that creates cracks in shale rock to extract natural gas, he said it is because it is a frightening image. To McAleer, there are “hard core” environmentalists who are anti-fossil fuel and anti-big business. There are also those who are currently in multi-million dollar lawsuits who, to win, would depend on the water being contaminated from fracking activities. Both of these groups, McAleer said benefit from associating flammable water with fracking.
One of the first clips released from the FrackNation at the end of February, covers residents‘ opinions on the media’s “unfair” and “half-truth” coverage of water contamination. Watch that clip:
In February, when the Blaze reported on McElhinney’s appearance at CPAC, FrackNation had raised $62,000 from 775 backers on its Kickstarter site. Kickstarter is a funding platform that allows anyone to raise money for projects by setting a monetary goal for donations and a deadline. If the deadline isn’t met, then all the money is returned to backers.
McAleer and McElhinney, who are also known for responding to Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” with “Not Evil Just Wrong,” set a goal of $150,000 for FrackNation. At the time of this posting, it has been surpassed with more than $167,000 raised from more than 2,500 backers. View FrackNation’s Kickstarter site here.
“$150,000 is the absolute minimum we need to complete the film,” said McAleer in a statement. “The more support we get for FrackNation, the better the film will be, allowing the film to combat the one-sided media coverage about fracking by reaching the broadest audience possible with this story of the truth.”
For more info on FrackNation, watch this:
On the flip side, Fox was recently funded $750,000 from HBO to film a sequel to Gasland.
McAleer said he expects the FrackNation to be completed sometime in June. With regard to the billboard — and FrackNation as a whole — McAleer said he has received both supportive and negative emails.
“It’s been overwhelming, amazing,” McAleer said. “As a foreigner coming to America, it’s very humbling. I feel like I’m living the American dream. I want to tell your story.”
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Comments (71)
Pennsyltuckian
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:34amI lived in upstate NY, miles from any fracking and years before it started. My water had so much methane that the well company that came to fix the pump suggested I tap the well to heat my house. My well was 340 feet deep and the well drillers told me that a piece of wood in the water from 1000 years ago would provide all the methane I needed for years.
Report Post »scottsatmsu
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:07pmIn the 1935 book, Little House on the Prairie, Pa and his friend almost died from “bad air” when they dug a well in 1869. My daughter and I read that book a couple of years ago.
Report Post »Based on true events from the author’s youth, it was well known that you should let the hole air out frequently or light the bad air on fire to get rid of it. hmmm. Were Americans smarter 140 years ago?
turkey13
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:23pmThe EPA has stopped the oil Co’s here in our county in Oklahoma because they claim it is creating Earth Quakes which we have had for 5 years now. The Fracking was started last year. Our Government has many deals with countrys that sell mus oil. I read somewhere if we really get into it in we can get all the oil we want right here for the next 60 years. By then we could develope cars that are nuculer powered.
Report Post »ClunkerT
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:32pmThis should be one of the top 5 Executive Orders on the desk of the Republican President in 2013. We can call it Hands Off Fracking. Those involved in the business of fracking have presented volumes of evidence proving the safety factors over and over again. Hell , they have convinced the ******** in the New York Legislature and now all Governor Cuomo has to do is sign the damn legislation creating thousands of jobs in upstate and western NY. No brainer!!
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 4:08pmHot water?
Report Post »tbtall
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:05amFear is the root of stupidity and causes huge distortions in being able to make reasonable assessments of risk. The desire to find an imaginary green solution to natural gas and oil defy anything close to logic. If this distortion of truth takes root, we are more screwed than anyone can imagine.
Report Post »Baikonur
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:59amhttp://www.epa.gov/history/topics/epa/25b.html
All the work done to eliminate lead in paint, raw sewage in rivers, the use of DDT on fields, unsafe dumping of toxic waste–who in their right mind would be against this?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:33amThe banning of DDT has resulted in the death of millions around the world and countless deaths in Africa.
Does that make someone a racist for allowing children to die in Africa because of Malaria?
DDT was banned in 1972 and millions have died because of it,but the government is here to help,yes help you get into your grave.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:35pm@ Baikonur
Report Post »The EPA is an example of how good ideas and causes can go wrong when an institution is established to take care of them instead of an ad hoc (case-by-case) process. Once the “real” problems are taken care of, then the institution that was created still exists. The institution needs to justify its existence, so it directs its attention towards trivial and/or fictitious “problems” — often effectively using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.
Baikonur
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:54amI will never understand the hatred of the EPA among the Blazers, or why they are in a state of denial about pollution.
The EPA is what stands between your safe drinking water and the air uou breathe and major corporations who would be delighted to dump carcinogens into the water and ground as long as it saved them a buck.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:27amMaybe because the EPA acts like the Taliban. Sure, they have done some good, but at what cost in dollars waisted on the majority of their efforts.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:41amThe most important reason is it’s an unconstitutional department,it‘s tyrannical in it’s oppressive treatment of citizens wanting to build a house on their property,EPA recently lost at the SCOTUS and the couple will now have their day in court,after five years of harassment from the jack booted thugs at EPA.
Somehow we managed to survive before the unconstitutional EPA was inflicted on us in the 70′s,and if ‘evil’ corporations pollute our land water or air we have courts for that problem.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:58amBAIKONUR, Yes, the EPA was started under the Nixon Administration.
Report Post »In July of 1970, the law that established the EPA was passed in response to the growing public demand for cleaner water, air and land. Prior to the establishment of the EPA, the national government was not structured to make a coordinated attack on the pollutants which harm human health and degrade the environment. The EPA was assigned the task of repairing the damage already done to the natural environment and to establish new criteria to guide Americans in making a cleaner environment a reality.
It was started with good intentions, but like just about any government agency it has grown itself and begun to step well beyond it’s intended bounds. The EPA just bullies whoever they want and pick on single family home constructions, and small farms, as well as small business that does not have an endless supply of money to fight the EPA. Recently it has come to light that the EPA has told families that they have no judicial recourse to fight such bullying.
Yes, we want clean air, water, and land. Without which we cannot grow clean food plants or safely raise food source animals. Not to mention the damage it does to us. But, this is no reason to allow the EPA to do just what it wants and when it wants. We need a congress and administration with the balls enough to stop all of these agencies from making their “own” laws and bring their suggestions to congress and let them become the law makers again.
Snidely
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 1:25pmBAIKONUR It‘s because it’s not a legitimate function of the federal government. Every state has a agency similar to the EPA. That is where it should be handled. Then if a state gets too lax or too burdensome, businesses have the opportunity to move. Kind of like the exodus from California. Federal agencies never use common sense when drafting regulations.
Report Post »Ron on the Rio Grande
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:27pmPerhaps its because your premiss is in error.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:27pmThe EPA went from being a watchdog making sure about illegal dumping of chemicals and making sure that waste didn‘t get into habitable area’s to an Agency with draconian doctrines with more political agenda then actual usefulness anymore…. It has become a weapon against people vs. an agency to ensure that companies use proper compliance….
Remember, the EPA was started by a Republican President — Nixon, it had good intentions, as do most things, but was quickly twisted and perverted by the Left into an attack machine.
Report Post »Raptuready
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:14amIs this like setting fire to the rain? So that’s what Adele was talking about!
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:09amSuch things as well as bitumen or tar pits have always been famous from Founding Frontier Days in many states of the USA. In some places they complained that every time they swung a pick ax or stuck a shovel in the ground they hit that filthy stuff and had to move in search of water wells.
In those days, about the only use they had for it was pitch for roofs. Ask California why they made a historical site of one of their more famous bitumen pits, at La Brea. The Feds did the same to coal mines in Utah so they could confiscate that half of the state. And complain about the cost of importing energy from out of state because they won’t dirty their own hands with local resources.
Report Post »ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:58amTo ALL Environmental whackos – I just heard that Anwar is heavily polluted with oil, as are many other underground locations – we must save the earth and get it out of the ground as soon as possible and save the planet !!!
Report Post »9111315
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:29amLOL, maybe an earthquake will send it all to the surface causing 100% damage and no salvagable oil.
I guess it is OK if mother nature washes away a swampland in a flood but man cannot build a damn to save it.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:34amWe have more natural gas here in the U.S than the Saudi’s have in oil.We have enough oil to last two centuries and our problem is the Marxist POS president that’s been inflicted on us has a war on fossil fuels.With the tyrannical EPA and whack job environmentalists I’m surprised we have any energy at all,because those lunatic bastards want us all walking to work,well at least the one guy who still has a job,and keep us in the dark because of that horrible coal.We need to fire the Marxist pig,abolish EPA and eliminate ALL nut job environmental groups intent on dragging us back to the dark ages.
Report Post »ScarletRose
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:12amI don’t have no use for folks that create ARTIFICIAL crises and charge folks more than they can afford as a result of it, for things that don’t solve it and were never intended to.
Report Post »A rope is a cheaper and a better solution for bureaucratic Treason.
progressiveslayer
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:21amThose folks you describe are the federal government,EPA DOE and the Marxist heathen,all greedy fat cats.I’ve often wondered how did we survive before the EPA or DOE were created to oppress us?
Report Post »upstatenyteabagger
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:52amwe have had gas in water in ny for years and we have no fracking going on. I have seen several places be able to light there water on fire. I am sure they can figure out how to separate it safely by now. I know people that have used the gas to heat there homes I Some people have more than one well and everytime they put in a new dug or drilled well they hit gas. Now public water has been put in and they have the best of both worlds. Its the enviroMENTALists that have freaked out people for there own benefits. We were going to have a wind farm but that was shot down because it will kill to many birds. They like to scare everyone just like the administration so they can have there way.
Report Post »Stiggs
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:40amSo, that was in1669…Maybe there’s just too danged MUCH oil underground and Mother Nature was sending a message to America to, “Come and get it, NOW!”
…but that’s just me.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:30amI remember seeing that in WV in a few places years ago. I would say it’s more common than you think.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 11:04amHave to agree. When you think about it, the earth produces the stuff. It is a self sustaining energy source, but we should deal with it responsibly as we have long ago learned. And, I do believe that is what has been happening all of these years. Otherwise we would hear of awful accidents happening all of the time.
Report Post »grannyrecipe
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 6:18amHow awesome God is! Even though he wiped out the world with Noah’s flood, he made sure that the dead dinosaurs and vegetation would be combined and pressurized underground, giving us a holistic and natural source of fuel because the “tropical paradise” that was the World was going bye-bye.
Report Post »Izzy2626
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:47amTYheres a growing number of scientists that are believing that oils not even a fossil fuel….its a renewable energy source
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:47am@Izzy
Report Post »That is what I’ve always said. Oil is the earth’s blood which is renewed daily. There will always be temperature and pressure working on the earth itself. If we don’t bleed her, she will leak the stuff out. That’s why the earth does so well after a man made oil spill. It‘s not a foreign substance that’s been spilled, just earth blood.
Teufel Hunden
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:21amMust be where the term “Fire Water” got it’s start.
Report Post »RamonPreston
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:09amThe gas/electric companies are exploiting us! Telsa showed us how to get FREE electricity over 100 years ago but they won’t let us have it. They would loose all that money.
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:08amI told you before. The new liberal mantra is…”What comes from the ground…stays in the ground”
So…. any energy you need … you need to look up
Report Post »Cida
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:47pmThis must be where the term fire water came from before they started making white lightening liquor.
Report Post »I Stand With Israel…Am Israel.
GoodStuff
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:16pm“On the flip side, Fox was recently funded $750,000 from HBO to film a sequel to Gasland.”
Folks, do you need any more reason to cancel your HBO, or better yet, cancel your cable. Cable bundling is evil. It subsidizes marxist channels like MSNBC, CNN, etc. even if you don’t watch those channels. Cancel your cable. Go for streaming! Pay for only the channels you want!
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:13pmGod Bless Fracking!
Josh Fox’s response to the fact that water was flammabe BEFORE fracking started, was “how is that relevant.”
Is he kidding?
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:12pmI would be more than happy to have gas in my water well. I am sure I could come up with a process to separate it, return the water into the system, then sell off or power my home with the gas. I might even lay in a 6″ line to increase my production. Heck if I could increase the gas content and eliminate the water by more fracking, I’d do that.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:42pmbetter do it quick……the government wants to outlaw pvc pipe
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:06pmIt’s ridiculous the effort Hollywood is making recently producing corrupting movies with people swearing open sex with their hands on the Bible and many more outrages, family dividing things, and all the petroleum pigs are focused on their profits while the fabric of the nation is falling apart. Who’s going to buy your fuel when the country falls apart you twisted Wretches?
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:12pmIn the name of God I condemn fuel exploration.
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:14pmBad, bad profits.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:18pmFuel exploration will be plagued by thorns every step of the way.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:21pmAnd watch out for those hungry ticks this summer, it’s supposed to be a bad one.
Report Post »eight2thirds
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:35amNo fuel exploration? So are we going to teach the dependent city liberal to live of the land? Or should we harvest unicorn farts?
Report Post »drphil69
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:52amSo I must assume that you are completely off the grid, don’t have a car, or any other devices that use gasoline, don’t use any plastics or other, evil, oil based products? Hmmm… you are using a computer to post this… or maybe an iPad… lots of evil petroleum products there…
Don’t you love hippocrits?
Report Post »TexOkie
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:05pmThe environmentalists and leftist aided by a corrupt media do not care for the truth. If the truth does not fit their agenda then it will be ignored and worked in such a way so as to deceive the people. They are despicable people.
Report Post »TheBoracle
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:59pmI live in Wyoming and am pro oil exploration. That said, Fracking has ruined some wells in the SE portion of the state. Like it or not, it’s true.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:10pm@TheBoracle—evidence?–
Report Post »Pictures?
video?
numbers?
resource for the comment?.
Just saying it doesn’t make it true
.maybe show news stories from a respected truthful newspaper?.
any thing?
HKS
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:20amThere is already a tax on the books for it.
Report Post »p4597
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:08pmKnow one of the families in Dimock whose water is ruined. Their water was crystal clear not brown like now from the drilling. They were never sick from it like now. You could not light it on fire like now. And by the way, we tried years ago when talking about Salt Springs. Nobody can tell me what‘s happening with all these people’s water now is naturally occurring. Why all of a sudden since the drilling started? They are going to drill near us. We are just praying it doesn’t affect our water. We had our water tested, cannot light it on fire and never has gotten sick from it. We will wait and see. Naturally occurring, plain and simple, it’s BS.
Report Post »vera95608
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:09pmIf there is 100% proof that fracking has poluted wells, Company need to provide well users with additional convenient water storage and delivery sistem. Not expennsive and can be done. It could be little inconvenience for the home owner, but what is done is done. Fracking benefit community at large in greater amount, but homeowner needs to be compensated and have steady supply of clean and free water. It is only fair.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:56pmFarts burn too. Are we going to outlaw them?
Report Post »Gorp
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:09pmAnd they stink worse when burned too.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:16pm@ Hickory—The government will now make us wear “special” underwear to save and use the gas instead of fossil fuels.I‘m sure you didn’t intend to give them the idea but(one T)I‘m sure they’ll start a committee to check it out.
Report Post »thedirtmover
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:50pmI heard about this burning water since I was a kid, and I live in CA.
Report Post »But it makes for great fear mongering
Stoic one
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:31pmX-files – the truth is out there… glad Mclear is bringing the truth.
Report Post »fightinggranny
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:25pmHaving lived in PA my entire life, lighting water on fire is NOT NEW. Because of the elements in the water in certain parts of the state, this happens. We also had a town on fire (underground) for many years, look up Centralia. It seems odd, but is not new and was not caused by fracking. Thank God for the Marcellus Shale and the jobs created and wealth created in this State. Drill, Baby, Drill. The greenies will tell you this is a result of the fracking, BUT that is NOT TRUE. This state is beautiful. The mountains, forest and terrain are beautiful. The people are benefiting in many ways from this find.
Report Post »I have no agenda, and am not spinning the truth.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 10:53pmI have heard of that town, and we see once again the green eco-terrorists who will go to any length to have their madness shoved down the collective throat of American people. They will go to no end of lies and distortions to have their way.
Report Post »watt
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:00pmYour comment leads me to believe there is either no drilling going on around you or you are one of the lucky ones to not have a negative experience if it has. I have seen the negative effects of drilling on my parents property personally. Whether or not someones water is flammable really is small potatoes compared to the effects of the quality of the water itself and other non-life threatening, but economically detrimental issues such as property values and the inability to sell their house because no one wants to buy a house near a well. This is one of those issues where people are all for it, until it affects them.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:20pm@watt—not sure where you are talking about when you speak of bad home sales,but check out the change in home prices in N.D. where fracking and oil drilling has been going on for years.The prices have sky rocketed.
Report Post »watt
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 11:51pmThis is in PA. The issues I said about property values and not being able to sell their home is in regards just to my parents home and a couple of their neighbors, all of which had their drinking water affected negatively. Speaking generally, if you can see a well from your home, your property value goes down and is a major negative when trying to sell.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 12:03am@watt–sorry to here that. That’s not however the case almost anywhere else. I went to sleep for many years hearing and seeing the oil wells pumping (that house has raised in value) In your parents case there has to be other factors that weigh in. Not so sure fracking or oil wells in close proximity of a home would affect the price. It’s probably just the perception that the well is hurting the value.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:31amIf homeowners were smart enough to not buy property without mineral rights, then the house would have a higher value with a well in view.
Your parents should have demanded mineral rights.
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