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FrackNation
''FrackNation'' is a feature documentary created by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, Phelim McAleer, Ann McElhinnery, and Magdalena Segieda. The film, released in 2013, claims to address alleged misinformation from environmentalists about the process of hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking. FrackNation looks at the process of fracking for natural gas and seeks to address the concerns surrounding the process that were highlighted in the fracking-critical film ''Gasland''. Inspiration ''FrackNation'' was inspired when documentary filmmaker Phelim McAleer asked Josh Fox, the director of the 2010 documentary ''Gasland'', some questions at an event in Chicago. While Fox was promoting his film project McAleer confronted him about the historical records of people being able to ignite methane in water at "Burning Springs, West Virginia, burning springs" long before fracking started. McAleer told the ''Los Angeles Times'' that Fox did not include that information in his film b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann McElhinney
Ann McElhinney (born 1964) and Phelim McAleer (born 1967) are Conservatism, conservative Irish documentary filmmakers and ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They have written and produced the political documentaries ''FrackNation'', ''Not Evil Just Wrong,'' and ''Mine Your Own Business'', as well as ''The Search for Tristan's Mum'' and ''Return to Sender''. Their latest project, ''Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer'', is a true crime drama film based on the crimes of Kermit Gosnell. Their book, ''Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer'', was an Amazon and ''New York Times'' best seller. They were married at the Basilica Church of St Mary Magdalene in Dublin in 1992. Early careers McAleer, who is from Beragh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and who is a former student of the National Council for the Training of Journalists course at the Belfast Metropolitan College, Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education, began his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann McElhinney And Phelim McAleer
Ann McElhinney (born 1964) and Phelim McAleer (born 1967) are conservative Irish documentary filmmakers and ''New York Times'' best-selling authors. They have written and produced the political documentaries ''FrackNation'', '' Not Evil Just Wrong,'' and '' Mine Your Own Business'', as well as ''The Search for Tristan's Mum'' and ''Return to Sender''. Their latest project, '' Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer'', is a true crime drama film based on the crimes of Kermit Gosnell. Their book, ''Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer'', was an Amazon and ''New York Times'' best seller. They were married at the Basilica Church of St Mary Magdalene in Dublin in 1992. Early careers McAleer, who is from Beragh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland and who is a former student of the National Council for the Training of Journalists course at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education, began his journalism career by accepting a posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydraulic Fracturing
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of Formation (geology), formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other hydraulic fracturing proppants, proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents) into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep-rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum, and brine will flow more freely. When the hydraulic pressure is removed from the well, small grains of hydraulic fracturing proppants (either sand or aluminium oxide) hold the fractures open. Fracking, using either hydraulic pressure or acid, is the most common method for well stimulation. Well stimulation techniques help create pathways for oil, gas or water to flow more easily, ultimately increasing the overall production of the well. Both methods of fracking are classe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promised Land (2012 Film)
''Promised Land'' is a 2012 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt and Hal Holbrook. The screenplay by Damon and Krasinski is based on a story by Dave Eggers. ''Promised Land'' follows two petroleum landmen who visit a rural Pennsylvania town in an attempt to buy drilling rights from the local residents. Damon also produced the film with Krasinski and Chris Moore, and was originally attached to direct, but was replaced by Van Sant. Filming took place mainly in Pittsburgh from early to mid-2012. During filming and afterward, the film's highlighting of the resource extraction process hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking," emerged as a topic of debate. The film had a limited release in the United States on , 2012 and followed with a nationwide expansion on , 2013. The film had its international premiere and received Special Mention Award at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GasLand
''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method of stimulating production in otherwise impermeable rock. The film was a key mobilizer for the anti-fracking movement, and "brought the term 'hydraulic fracturing' into the nation's living rooms" according to ''The New York Times''. Fracking is a technique that has been used routinely since the late 1940s as an aid to stimulating production in oil and gas wells. Horizontal drilling, a recent innovation in drilling techniques, can create horizontal pathways deep within the Earth, and has successfully incorporated hydraulic fracturing to release fluids from shale formations. Horizontal drilling coupled with fracking has transformed the energy business, enabled vast new supplies of natural gas, and advanced the goal of United States energy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mine Your Own Business
''Mine Your Own Business'' is a 2006 documentary film directed and produced by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney about the Roșia Montană mining project, funded by a grant from Gabriel Resources, the foreign company behind the mining effort. The film documents environmentalists' opposition to the mine as unsympathetic to the needs and desires of the locals, prevents industrial progress, and consequently locks the people of the area into lives of poverty. Film content The documentary follows Gheorghe Lucian, a 23-year-old unemployed miner from the Roşia Montană in northern Romania, whose chance of a new job disappeared after an anti-mining campaign orchestrated by foreign environmentalists. The contested mining project was expected to bring in a $1 billion investment and generate 600 jobs in an area where unemployment is 70 percent. After investigating the Romanian mine, the director McAleer and Lucian then travel to other impoverished communities in Madagascar and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gasland
''Gasland'' is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Josh Fox. It focuses on communities in the United States where natural gas drilling activity was a concern and, specifically, on hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), a method of stimulating production in otherwise impermeable rock. The film was a key mobilizer for the anti-fracking movement, and "brought the term 'hydraulic fracturing' into the nation's living rooms" according to ''The New York Times''. Fracking is a technique that has been used routinely since the late 1940s as an aid to stimulating production in oil and gas wells. Horizontal drilling, a recent innovation in drilling techniques, can create horizontal pathways deep within the Earth, and has successfully incorporated hydraulic fracturing to release fluids from shale formations. Horizontal drilling coupled with fracking has transformed the energy business, enabled vast new supplies of natural gas, and advanced the goal of United States energy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Springs, West Virginia
Burning Springs is an unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia, United States. It takes its name from the natural gas which bubbled up through the spring and would burn when lit. History In the early 19th century, wells were drilled at the springs to produce brine which was evaporated to produce salt. Some petroleum was produced along with the salt brine. By 1836, the salt wells were producing 50 to 100 barrels per year of oil that was sold as illuminating oil.Edgar Wesley Owen (1975) ''Trek of the Oil Finders'', Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p.10. The wells at Burning Springs produced and sold petroleum many years before the Drake Oil Well at Titusville, Pennsylvania. John V. Rathbone bought 100 acres in 1842 and a decade later drilled a new well, only to discover it produced more oil than salt. However, by 1859 it was producing seven 40-gallon barrels of oil per day, more effectively than gathering oil from the nearby river. The fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Collier
Carol Collier is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and Fellow in the American Water Resources Association. She practices and teaches in the Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, United States. A Certified Senior Ecologist, she specializes in watershed management and resilient systems design. She is a faculty member in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth & Environmental Science at Drexel University. Professionally, she serves as an educator, planner, and advocate. Education Collier has a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Smith College. She also studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Master of Regional Planning. Career Collier began her professional career as an intern at MCB Environmental Engineers, Inc. She worked there for nineteen years before becoming Executive Director of Pennsylvania's 21st Century Environment Commission and regional director of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Southeast Region. She next served as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Not Evil Just Wrong
''Not Evil Just Wrong'' is a 2009 climate change denial documentary film by Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer that challenges Al Gore's ''An Inconvenient Truth'' by claiming that the evidence of global warming is inconclusive and that the impact global warming legislation will have on industry is much more harmful to humans than beneficial. The movie was filmed in 2008 and was screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and at the RightOnline conference in 2009. Summary The film argues that the science behind climate change science is not settled. ''Not Evil Just Wrong'' focuses on the British High Court ruling which found nine errors in Al Gore's documentary, ''An Inconvenient Truth.'' The film also highlights assertions about the Medieval Warm Period and Stephen McIntyre's alleged debunking of the hockey stick graph. The film also focuses on the impact of climate legislation in developing counties and average families in America. The film states that on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The right to freedom of expression has been recognised as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law. Many countries have constitutional law that protects free speech. Terms like ''free speech'', ''freedom of speech,'' and ''freedom of expression'' are used interchangeably in political discourse. However, in a legal sense, the freedom of expression includes any activity of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used. Article 19 of the UDHR states that "everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference" and "everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
