Citing DeSmogBlog Series, "FrackNation" Screening Cancelled by MN Film Festival

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โ€œFrackNation,โ€ the documentary film about hydraulic fracturing (โ€œfrackingโ€) with close conservative movement ties, recently had its showing cancelled at Winona, Minnesota’s annual Frozen River Film Festivalย (FRFF).

Citing DeSmogBlog‘s two-part investigative series published in May 2013 on โ€œFrackNation,โ€ย FRFF Director Mike Kennedy told theย Winona Postย his rationale for cancelling the film is that it was, โ€œpretty apparent they were paid to make these movies to counterย Gasland [Part II].โ€

โ€œDeSmogBlog.com appears to be the main source of allegations that ‘FrackNation’ was industry-funded,โ€ wrote the Post. โ€œDeSmogBlog claims connections between [film Co-Director Phelim] McAleer and conservative groups, industry groups help[ing] promote the film after its was made, and the fact that McAleer directed an industry-funded documentary in the past, as proof that ‘FrackNation’ is cut from the sameย cloth.โ€

The cancellation has caused a major kerfuffle in conservative media circles, covered by outlets ranging fromย Fox News, Fox Business,ย The Blaze TV,ย Town Hall, Watchdog.org,ย Hot Airย and others. McAleer was a featured guest on โ€œFox and Friendsโ€ on Januaryย 23.ย 

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Steve Horn is the owner of the consultancy Horn Communications & Research Services, which provides public relations, content writing, and investigative research work products to a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit clients across the world. He is an investigative reporter on the climate beat for over a decade and former Research Fellow for DeSmog.

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