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Andrew Del Duca Mrs. Lehman-Wranitz Introduction to Economics: Block E October 28, 2015 'Promised Land' Final Project 'Promised Land' is the story, directed by Gus Van Sant, of what happens when big business and Small Town, America clash. Matt Damon and Frances MacDonald portray two sales representatives from Global Gas Co., a nine million dollar company. They travel to Northwest Pennsylvania to try to lease ability to drill on the land of citizens. The movie completely failed at being even moderately realistic as well as failing to clarify the issues involved with both fracking industrialization of rural areas and the genuine short and long term impacts involved. The manner in which the leasing agents approached property owners was false, …show more content…

By 2013, the practice of Hydraulic Fracking was highly controversial, and nearly everyone American citizens h had taken a stance on the issue. In the movie, each family the salespeople visited had no idea what fracking was, or any idea of the environmental consequences that follow it. Landowners in the middle of the rural fracking boom in the northern tier of the state had been in the midst of the real site of this ongoing crisis since it began in 2009. Global was in no way the first company to have approached people in the region. The movie inaccurately portrayed the people of the region by not giving them the correct amount of background knowledge on Hydraulic …show more content…

The schoolroom "demonstration" scene and the "dead cows in Louisiana" trope were ludicrous. There are real environmental issues with frack drilling and real accidents affecting human and animal health that could have been worked into the script. There was no mention of air pollution, the effects of heavy traffic on rural roads, the noise and emissions of compressor stations, the land destruction of pipelines, the massive draw-offs of water and the disposal problems of "produced" waste water. All of these issues were left unaddressed in the film, so the citizens voted off of incomplete

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