Stephen Colbert devoted a must-see segment of The Colbert Report last night to the subject of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), mocking gas company Talisman Terry for its coloring book propaganda, โTalisman Terryโs Energy Adventureโ [PDF] and generally eviscerating the gas industryโs efforts to greenwash fracking in the wake of widespread public concern over water contamination and other threats posed by the industryโs drilling operations.
Colbertโs team certainly had fun mocking Talismanโs โFriendly Fracosaurusโ character, revealing some โbonus pagesโ of the dinosaur facing his โviolated ancestorsโ and committing suicide – frackicide? – by lighting a cigarette in the shower.ย These references were surely amusing to viewers of Gasland and other followers of the fracking controversy.
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