Fracking is about to hit the big the now that Matt Damon, Gus Van Sant, and Dave Eggers (“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius”) are coming together to make “The Promised Land,” which Politico describes as being “anti-fracking.”
Gasland, which has a sequel coming out later this year, first helped to galvanize a movement against fracking, the controversial drilling process in which millions of gallons of chemicals and water are blasted into rock to release natural gas deposits. The Damon film will no doubt go several steps further in polarizing the issue.
The film will be shot in Pennsylvania, considered to be on the front lines in the fracking debate. Mitt Romney was there last week outing the benefits of fracking while giving no oxygen the very real threats it presents. In neighboring Ohio last year, a magnitude 4.0 quake struck Youngstown, Ohio. The quake triggered shaking as as far away as Buffalo, N.Y., and Toronto. The result in Ohio was a ban drilling new wastewater-injection wells within five miles of the well suspected of triggering the temblors, and activists there are after a statewide moratorium.
Shooting of “The Promised Land begins later this month.
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