That’s the way it looks:
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 is running PR for the film, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE.
It is, of course, completely accidental that fracking is one of the technologies bringing energy production back to the US.
What a coinkydink!
I’ve always assumed that Team America Matt Damon was 100% accurate. I’ve never been disappointed or proven wrong.
You never ever do these things with your own money. Roger taught me that, after describing how he did one with his own money….
Damon didn’t have enough of his own money? His Hollywood buddies couldn’t pony up enough? It’s not an expensive blockbuster. I mean, they could have rendered enough candles from Michael Moore’s body fat to finance this thing, I’m sure.
Since he is getting funding from competitors to the American natural gas industry, I feel confident in assuming that he is getting some other kind of payoff from the UAE above and beyond the movie’s financing needs. IOW he is a corrupt, greedy asshat.
Oh for Pete’s sake, frick Damon and UAE and their frickin’ anti-frackin’ freakin’ film!
I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I’ve been sure for years that Arab oil money was behind Big Green. I’m sure there’s much more, being laundered to make it impossible to follow the money.
Cui Bono?
Part two of the Mushroom Media byline, “Leave me in the dark and feed me manure”.