Friday, March 23

Phelim McAleer, Pro-Fracking Filmmaker, Erects Billboard In Fracking Country



WASHINGTON -- Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who famously attacked Al Gore over global warming issues, stepped up his support for fracking on Thursday, erecting a billboard on Route 17 in Rock Hill, N.Y., on the road to Pennsylvania.

The billboard serves as a teaser for McAleer's upcoming documentary, "FrackNation." Produced with his wife, Ann McElhinney, the film explores the implications of fracking -- or hydraulic fracturing -- a controversial process in which undisclosed chemicals are injected at high pressure into rocks containing oil or natural gas.

McAleer has argued that media portrayals of fracking have been largely "exaggerated hyperbole" that ignores the millions of people whose lives have been "positively transformed" by the fracking industry.

"There's lots of anecdotes and there's lot of stories and there's lots of scare stories," McAleer told HuffPost.

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