Sunday, January 6, 2013 Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton
I recommend The Promised Land, Matt Damon's anti-fracking feature film. I saw it today here in downtown Edmonton. Sent to a depressed farming area to pay locals to lease their land to his natural gas company, Damon finds that money isn't everything, even to the poor. Fracking's threat to water and life outweighs the temporary wealth offered to the people "to scorch the land under their feet," in co-star Hal Holbrook's words. Holbrook plays a Cornell University physics PhD, retired from a Boeing factory and now teaching science in the local high school. Perhaps a sequel could critique Boeing and other war profiteers. The petro-state Abu Dhabi helped finance this film; interesting. I'll say no more, lest I reveal at least two interesting plot twists you would see in this film.
Ths music included country, rock, and folk, none explicitly about fracking. Have a song explicitly about fracking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4
Merry Christmas on the Julian Calendar, which Russians and others with a Christian Orthodox history follow.
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