Nothing from the author about America Votes funded by Bloomberg? Nothing about the lies about so-called criminals and sexual predators? Nothing about the fact this effort is being LED by three people who LIVE in Senate District 11? Could it be the Indy is biased?
Siggie...the interesting thing about all of the coverups, trying to hide the true Obama and his real agenda for America, those who would have been informed by these revelations already knew enough not to vote for him. And those uniformed who even now don't fathom or know what he has been doing wouldmstill have voted for him for the freebies. Just wait till Eugenics hits them upside the head. They will be screaming for the rest of us to save them. Not!
No mention in the Indy of Memorial Day weekend...when we remember those who died for the right of left wing whack jobs to spew all their crazy stuff, with their hands deep everyone's pockets but their own, while refusing to answer questions about their reign of totalitarian oppression.
Happy Memorial Day Siggie, you may be the only other person who gets it
Andy: Okay, let's be fair. Benghazi is huge. A massive cover-up, bigger than Nixon's paranoid play. The President, and the Secretary of State (not to mention Rice and Carney) flat out lied to the American people and perpetuated that lie until things died down and they hoped it would just go away. Stay tuned - it's going to explode.
You are correct on the IRS and Fast and Furious however, the American people (and you) should care.
And we will see how legal the "spying" was. http://theweek.com/article/index/244114/wh…
Do you really believe that Holder had no knowledge?
Sigge: The Democratic party is the blind leading the blind. but to be fair and balanced; Benghazqi is a none story.
IRS scandal is bad anyway you look at and people need some prison time.
Fast and Furious is a typical screwed up government operation but 65% of American does not care or do I.
Spying on AP was legal and allowed and it was investigating not spying.
Give him medal and name part of building after him and then I do not want to hear his name again. People get killed every day for less.
how annoying to have the pro-gas side quoted there are the end..... anyone who works for the oil and gas industry does not have a say, you know that their industry paid for dribble is not accurate. Josh Fox has no stake in this, he is just a grassroots person. But what he saw over time convinced him of the actual reality that fracking poisons and kills. Kudos to Fox for his work to open our eyes, despite the industry shills howling after him every stop he makes.
Andy: since we are all trying to be fair and balanced (yeah, right) I'm wondering why you didn't mention the "circus" that passes for the Democrat party. Or do you believe Benghazi, the IRS scandal, fast and furious and the Justice Dept. spying on the Associated Press are just a pack of lies dreamed up by Obama's opposition?
I suppose I should say that I thought his interview with Josh was great, but it IS frustrating to have the review of the film talk more about the banjo playing then about the validity of it while posting the review by the gas industry which has NO facts or science in it and actually has FALSE information. Matt did a great job in the interview and I encourage more of the same, but I guess I just expect that journalists would call out the lies spouted by the industry. Plus it would have made for a better blog. just saying.
Vic Furman, if anyone asks you for a good fracking joke, just say "Fracknation." That film is a joke. The only scientific community that isn't taking a hard look at the mounting evidence that fracking cannot be done safely, is the community practicing the science of industry spin. Don't get your information from the industry spin doctors, Vic.
One does have to like the circus that passes for the Republican party.
Josh Fox has been ousted for the many lies he told in a factual Documentary called Fracknation. Right from the very first scene josh was caught in untruths and theatrics, not journalisim. His credibility in the scientific community is at ZERO"
Georgia...if Obama does tell you, believe the opposite.
Some valid points made above, but I'd like to remind the commenters that this blog was written by the Film and Food Editor. The same one who did a good interview with Fox in this week's Independent. But I suppose since he did post the industry's toxic emissions, he opened himself up a little for this criticism!
As to this comment in the energy in depth review “To the knowledge of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission staff, there has been no verified instance of harm to groundwater caused by hydraulic fracturing in Colorado.”
Dave Neslin, former director, Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, April 2009 Umm... a tiny bit of research proves that there have been numerous instances of groundwater contamination. I think there have been at least 13 in the last 4 months. But don't take my word for it. Go to the COGCC website. Click database on the left hand side. Choose Inspection/Incident. when the form pops up choose spills/releases at the top and at the bottom change the number to 100. A list will pop up and you can see how many groundwater and surface water impacts have been recorded. They can keep using the same talking points but their own FACTS prove them as lies. I read the industries review before I saw the film and I'm a little miffed that the indy didn't do a THING to discount it. The least you could have done since you printed the whole review was to counter it with some truth.
I'd like Pres. Obama to tell me exactly which companies are "promoting best practices for safer (not safe, mind you) and more efficient production." He says it's a fact.
Thanks for the coverage of Gasland II, but this blog entry doesn't come across as balanced; your reporting is much shorter and more general - fewer stats, quotes, etc. - than the unedited propaganda that follows. Why not balance volume and data at least -- or better yet, take a side and document it with scientific evidence -- all of which could have been extracted from Gasland II. Follow the money. Who pays for the propaganda? Oil and gas! What do we expect them to say? Whatever they need to say to turn a profit.
Thanks for the excellent coverage of last night's event, and for the interesting textbook example of how the industry spins the story just enough to cast some doubt on the truths in Gasland and Gasland 2. If you look hard at the industry's story, it is not particularly fact-filled. If the industry had a strong case to make for the safety of drilling and fracking, they would not keep trotting out the same tired, deceptive talking points. Unfortunately for them, that's all they've got.
Gasland 2 did a decent job of explaining why the oil and gas industry is getting away with the deception and keeping regulators from doing what they will ultimately do, when the truth is just too loud and obvious to ignore any longer.
Two graduates are investing all of their own money, and doing a fine job of raising more privately, to conduct a study and create a documentary, while you, TejonTech, do nothing but sit on the sidelines heckling them because you are so envious of their education.
Re: “Frack war tonight in Boulder”
"FrackNation was funded through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter with 3,305 backers donating $212,265."
So believable because pro fracking conservative types are always cruising Kickstarter looking for projects to put money into that will net them zero return.