Industry Fracking Up the Oscars

Industry Fracking Up the Oscars

By Donal on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 9:44am |

Here they go again. Demonstrating that big oil and gas will stop at nothing to silence the legitimate concerns of real people about the safety of its production practices, natural gas industry trade group Energy in Depth has written to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the folks who bring us the Oscars) to protest the nomination of the critically-acclaimed film “Gasland” as Best Documentary of the year. The ambiguously-named industry front group was formed to fight federal regulation of the controversial technology of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” regulation that NRDC believes is critical.

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