{"id":625,"date":"2012-07-08T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=625"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:51:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:51:12","slug":"truthland-an-answer-to-gasland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Truthland &#8211; an Answer to Gasland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gas Industry has come out with a movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthlandmovie.com\/\">Truthland<\/a>&#8221; their answer to GasLand.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the trailer for Truthland<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ps8hsexFSmo\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthlandmovie.com\/\">Truthland<\/a> site and watch the entire movie. I haven&#8217;t done that yet. (Don&#8217;t you think the kissing the baby thing is shameless?)<\/p>\n<p>Here is the trailer for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaslandthemovie.com\/\">Gasland:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dZe1AeH0Qz8\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Personally I thought GasLand, which I saw on NetFlix was a good movie. It could have been a great movie if they paid as much attention to the facts as they did the cinematography but hey, that&#8217;s the movie business. I can&#8217;t vouch for Truthland and I can see why some would view it skeptically because it was funded by the gas industry. But hey you know what? I think that you and I should look at all opinions and presentations&nbsp;skeptically, but not cynically.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7193394038\/\" title=\"IMG_0975 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0975\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/7193394038_fc4489ed3f-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><i><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Sweetie&#8217;s family is not afraid of fracking. They are here having a picnic on a Chesapeake Energy well site in western Oklahoma. The well was horizontally drilled into and hydraulically fracked in the Colony Wash formation. Sweetie is in the back at the far left standing up trying to sneak some food. So far, no ill effects except that I have gotten somewhat older, fatter, balder, dumber, and uglier since the event.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\">Do your research, check the facts, decide for yourself but keep an open mind. Write your Senator, take some action if you feel led. Don&#8217;t take everything at face value. Think about what the unstated assumptions are? (Like do you really want all the water quality enforcement everywhere taken over by the Federal Government? Is that good? bad? Why? Or should exploration companies be allowed unchecked access anywhere they want regardless of the environmental impact? Why? Can&#8217;t we keep sensitive areas untouched? Why not?) Check and see who has what to gain or lose by presenting a certain viewpoint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7193400328\/\" title=\"IMG_0973 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0973\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/7193400328_95533a0c8a-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of fun actually googling GasLand and TruthLand and seeing how the pro and con fracking trolls are tearing each other up on the internet. Are the various advocates answering questions and providing information that can be checked or are they just bobbing and weaving?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/7458324762\/\" title=\"Peace symbol car by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peace symbol car\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/7458324762_6506b081b1-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>(And they like hot showers in the morning!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5069910447\/\" title=\"20101010_65 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20101010_65\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/5069910447_e18292b230-300x225.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><i>(And your most stubborn oilman likes a to get away from it all to a place with &nbsp;clean air and water.)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\">I could give you a bunch of links, but I&#8217;m not. Just google it. Read the pros and the cons. Make up your own mind. (But keep it open.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/5863128914\/\" title=\"Hydraulic Fracturing Equipment by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hydraulic Fracturing Equipment\" height=\"305\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/5863128914_ab0cb24d09-300x183.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can I get off my soapbox now?<\/p>\n<p>(Full disclosure: I work for a natural gas pipeline company and I don&#8217;t have any problem with properly designed and executed fracking. My opinions are my own and not necessarily that of my employer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gas Industry has come out with a movie &#8220;Truthland&#8221; their answer to GasLand. Here is the trailer for Truthland You can go to the Truthland site and watch the entire movie. I haven&#8217;t done that yet. (Don&#8217;t you think the kissing the baby thing is shameless?) Here is the trailer for Gasland: Personally I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,423,602,601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drilling-wells","category-energy","category-fracking","category-natural-gas-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}