Hollywood star Matt Damon takes on energy industry with fracking film Promised Land

The Telegraph ^ | 29 Dec 2012 | Jacqui Goddard

[MinorityRepublican]

Matt Damon's film is set to intensify debate on fracking

As one of Hollywood's highest-paid actors with a reputation for straight-talking, he has made little secret of his willingness to confront thorny political and social issues.

Now Matt Damon is facing off against one of America's most powerful institutions - the oil and gas industry - in a film that represents a new battleground for environmentalists' campaigns against fracking.

Promised Land, which goes on nationwide release in the US this week, is set to intensify debate on the controversial drilling technique to such an extent that the industry has prepared a public relations campaign of its own to mitigate the film's impact.

The movie, directed by Gus Van Sant, tells the story of a smooth-talking oil company 'land-man' dispatched to a rural and economically depressed Pennsylvania community to persuade residents to sign over their mineral rights, armed with a company chequebook. What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.

Fracking - or hydraulic fracturing - relies on forcing millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground at high pressure, breaking layers of shale rock to release oil and gas.

[EEGator]

[denydenydeny]

Funded by OPEC.

[DustyMoment]

And Damon’s Petroleum Engineering degree is from which university . . . . . . . . . . . . !??

Either Damon wants to join Leonardo DiDumdio, algore or Michael Moore in the Disingenuous Propaganda Passing As Fact documentary category, or he is just announcing to the world, “I’m a kool-aide-chugging moron and here’s my proof!”

[freekitty]

Behind the scenes; Damon probably has a lot of stock in oil and gas.

[ronnie raygun]

Feeling helpless? defeated? There is something we can do, stop supporting these nimrods in hollywood and the sh## they feed us and our children. The minute these cretans open thier mouth and it doesnt fit OUR AGENDA we place them on the no BUY list. The same goes for thier advertisers and supporters. Now lets get to work.

[donna]

I look at that so sincere photo and say:

Matt, Matt! If I give up oil, can I live with you?

[Hope for the Republic]

Waht is it that Rush calls these people, the under informed voter?

[TigersEye]

The Damon Legacy: Dude’s A Fracking Idiot!

[upsdriver]

I would be interested to know what modes of transportation Matt Damon owns and uses.

[spokeshave]

The answer to water fracking is GasFrack co,..GSFVF

[spokeshave]

[spokeshave]

[jdsteel]

I won’t spend money to see this fracking awful movie. It’s sure to be fracked up. Fracking hollywood liberals are trying to frack up our country. I hope this blows up in their fracking faces.

Couldn’t resist!

[Lexington Green]

a propaganda whore for OPEC...

[Fledermaus]

Matt Damon is a fracking idiot.

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[hinckley buzzard]

Michael Medved is immensely pleased with himself, sort of like Tommy Friedman of the Slimes. I call it "What a good boy am I" syndrome.

[rottndog]

- in a film that represents a new battleground for environmentalists' campaigns against fracking

- in a film that represents a new battleground for environmentalists' campaigns against energy.

I'm hoping the energy industry will take a few notes and implement the Ringling Brothers strategy for dealing with nuisance litigation.

People who use the courts to enforce their ideology that they can't achieve through the political process need to be sued into oblivion. Methinks the energy industry in the US has the resources to do it.

[mrs. a]

I predict that this movie will just...go away.

Picture, if you will, Saturday evening in the Six-Pack household. Joe and Jane want to go see a movie.

What will they choose? A chick-flick? A zombie movie? A film with gangstas and car chases? No, they’ll certainly pick a movie about FRACKING!

Folks, this is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser! I can just see Honey Boo-Boo’s entire family waiting in line for such top-notch entertainment!

[SoFloFreeper]

Matt Damon's house in Miami Beach, Florida.

Took a hell of lot of petroleum-based energy to build this mansion...yet Matt thinks we paupers ought to pay more for our energy. After all, we're not millionaire Hollywood punks.

source: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/matt-damons-house/view/?service=1