America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) exists to promote the economic, environmental and national security benefits of greater use of clean, abundant, domestic natural gas.
We represent 34 of North America’s largest independent natural gas exploration and production companies and the leading developers of the shale plays now transforming the clean energy landscape.
See also: ANGA’s rebuttal of Josh Fox’s Gasland Web Site | Drilling Isn’t Safe.
See also: Reality Maps. The Truth about Gasland – ANGA PR Video. 10 Apr 2011. Reality Maps.
THERE IS AN EXCELLENT documentary called GASLAND by Josh Fox that you can see on Youtube below:
And this is Part 2:
This documentary exposes the insanity of hydraulic fracturing or fracking is a process in which thousands of gallons of chemical laced water and sand are injected into natural gas wells to release natural gas. The result is large-scale contamination of the groundwater, water so contaminated that it can even become flammable!
Source: David Eubank. The Truth About GASLAND the Movie. 27 Feb 2011. david eubank on art.
Of course the PR machine of the American Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) has gone into overdrive in response to this documentary putting out a video (below) that basically claims that the Gasland documentary put out spurious information. They ended with the statement: “We can disagree on policies, but those disagreements should center around facts.” Of course, they give no substantiation to their claim that Gasland is full of lies — this is slick PR at its most conniving.
The Film “Gasland,” whatever the intentions of the filmmaker, has contributed to a dialogue based more on fear than facts. While it is a dramatic movie, ‘Gasland’ is a deeply flawed documentary that gets several important facts wrong. Learn more at http://ANGA.us/truthaboutgasland
ANGA. The Truth About Gasland. 31 Jan 2011. YouTube
It is amusing that this ANGA PR video states:
We have something special in this country: our people and our freedom to express our opinions and beliefs.
Well, ANGA have taken away that freedom to express opinions and beliefs about their fracking industry, and its devastating effect on the countryside and its people, by making sure that all comments under the video are reviewed before posting. As a consequence, their PR video has been viewed nearly 190,000 times but without a single comment approved underneath. That must be a whole lot of negative comments that have been censored out! And not only that, but ratings have been disabled for this video. I wonder why?
It is always dangerous for PR firms for large companies to use social media like Youtube and Facebook because they open themselves up to public scrutiny and comment, but by trying to have their cake and eat it — by having both a social media response and gagging/censorship to prevent comment on that response — those sorts of PR strategies can backfire, as they seem to have in this case with escalating resistance to the insanity of hydraulic fracturing.
See also: America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) was a short-lived natural gas trade association that promoted the use of shale gas and attempted to deflect worries about climate change. The group formed in 2009 and ceased operations in late 2015 when it merged with the American Petroleum Institute. During ANGA’s tenure, their highest paid PR contract was with the Glover Park Group (GPG).
See: Natural Gas Industry Shills Use the Media to Mislead the Public – Here’s How to Spot Them
See: Natural Gas Drilling Threatens Communities in Northeastern United States
See: Gasland: Drilling Isn’t Safe
See: DEC Fracks NYC & Josh Fox of Water Under Attack’s Responds
See: Gasland | NOW on PBS
See: Gasland vs Big Oil and Gas
See: Gasland – The Debate
See: Clifford Krauss: propagandist par excellence
See: Energy in Depth
See: Civil Disobedience
