Truthland Truths:

1. Truthland "narrator" Shelley DePue had leaking shale gas wells on her property before performing in this fracking infomercial. She knew more about how gas wells leak than any of the people she pretended to interview. http://www.marcellus-shale.us/Depue-Truthland.htm But her own leaking gas wells are not mentioned in the mockumentary. Her gas wells contaminated her neighbors waters wells erupting with sludge and a methane geyser, the Scranton Times-Tribune investigated and found that Tulsa, OK-based drilling company WPX Energy had been cited for environmental violations on multiple nearby wells in 2011, including on the Depues property, which they had leased to WPX in July 2010. The violations were for defective casing or cement meant to protect aquifers [ie. drinking water] from gas and other fluids. 2. The infomercial was made by an ad agency that specializes in attack ads specifically to attack an award winning documentary, Gaslands. http://blog.littlesis.org/2012/06/13/fracking-industrysanswer-to-gasland-devised-by-astroturf-lobbying-groupand-political-ad-agency/ 3. The mockumentary was produced by a gas industry front group "Energy In Depth who specializes in such deceptions. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Energy_in_D epth 4. The project was started by Chesapeake Energy, who owns the website "Truthlandmovie.com". When I think "truthful" I think "Chesapeake" Don't you ? 5. John Hanger, former Pa. DEP commissioner, now gas industry lawyer, oversaw some of the worst environmental

disasters from fracking in the US. Including the gassing of the narrator's neighbors. Still, he boldly repeats the Big Fracking Deception: "No instance of water pollution from gas wells." Ms. DePue nods mmm-hmmm. 6. "400 Trillion Cubic Feet" Terry Engelder - is the uber apologist geologist of the Marcellus shale. Who overstated Marcellus reserves by 5X. This lead to a gross overstatement of the Marcellus potential in New York - until corrected by the USGS http://www.scribd.com/doc/65070417/SGEISSocioeconomic-Hype-Voodoo-Frackonomics-2-0 http://www.scribd.com/doc/68519448/NY-Gas-ReserveEstimates And facilitated the financial scamming by Chesapeake that overstated their reserves to hype their stock. Such overestimates of reserves are dependent on apologist geologists like Engelder, as Art Berman has explained. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7075 He repeats another dodge - that there have been millions of fracks over 60 years. When those were predominately vertical wells - not horizontal shale gas wells - like the kind that had just gassed narrator Shelley's neighborhood big time. And horizontal shale gas wells are much more likely to cause environmental damage. Engelder graciously counsels someone how to escape the shale gas war-zone: Move to Maine. He dances around the fact that shale gas wells vent methane into groundwater - like on Shelley's farm : http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/16/how-gaswells-release-methane-into-groundwater/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/76174462/Schlumberger-GasLeak-Study http://www.scribd.com/doc/76316348/Gas-Wellbore-Leaks http://www.scribd.com/doc/65704543/Casing-Leaks http://www.scribd.com/doc/78704484/Leaking-Gas-Wells http://www.scribd.com/doc/91221557/Contamination-ofAquifers-by-Gas-Wells http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/03/19/gas-wellsleak-even-upside-down-in-australia/ 7. Gary Hanson - apologist geologist He refers to the frack studies on coal bed methane wells in the San Juan Basin. And again focuses on the least likely risk - fracks going out of zone. Instead of the more common problems like what happened on the farm of the person he is talking to. (She does not correct this oversight.) He refers to thermogenic methane in the Duke methane study - but alleges that the methane was from coal mines. He appears to be referring to the Cabot "study" of methane in water in Susquehanna County - where the narrator's farm is located. Which "concluded" based on no post drilling water tests, that all the methane came up via faulting and fissures. Not burst well bores like the narrators. http://www.scribd.com/doc/96519252/CabotGroundwater-Methane-Hoax 8 . Elvis Bowman - Fort Worth Minister - "I Had a Dream" : Hitting a Big Fracking Gas Well When you cut through the rhetoric, this reads as an anecdote of a landowner who hopes to win the shale gas lottery. He alludes to "a very helpful City Councilman" that

helped facilitate their permit. Because they would need an SUP to get a permit to drill a gas well in the city limits. Few if any of those dry gasBarnett Shale wells could be economic at the time TruthLand came out. But the good minister focuses on their financial windfall which may or may not play out, with or without prayer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/us/26gas.html?page wanted=all All of the issues he mentioned - zoning, noise ordinances. etc. are addressed in the Fort Worth zoning ordinances. Pennsylvania, where the narrators farm is, allows no local controls over gas wells - no noise, no zoning, no nothing - frack anywhere. None of this was mentioned in the fracking mockumentary. http://www.scribd.com/doc/63141534/New-York-Gas-WellZoning When talking to the reverend, the narrator keeps mum about the problems she's had with similar wells back home. 9. Michael Webber - Much ado about how much water there is to be trashed by fracking - as if that's a good thing . . . Nothing about what happens to the water: it is contaminated if it comes back, if it does not come back, it's lost. There is no safe and economic way to deal with the flowback in New York state. Not road spreading, not dumping into municipal water treatment plants. http://www.scribd.com/doc/65435029/SGEIS-FrackingFlowback 10. Chuck Sylvester - shale game roulette winner If thermogenic gas is already in local water wells - then shale gas wells will likely mobilize more methane into

wells. They are quite good at that - as the industry knows and the narrator can vouch for personally. http://www.scribd.com/doc/80574646/Well-Failures Wanders a bit - antelope getting hit on the highway by people fleeing California ? Then goes on to praise Cheney who turned Halliburton into a no-bid defense contractor in Iraq. And fracked the EPA out of regulating gas well. An icon of truthiness. 11. Scott Roberts - yet another ex DEP regulator turned fracking shill. Demos how casing "protects groundwater" by setting off a cherry bomb in an open pipe. Which proves you can put a cherry bomb in a pipe and it will go boom out the open end of the pipe. Ms. DePue nods knowingly during the demonstration - having witnessed such well failures first hand . . . in her backyard. The cement between the outer casing and well bore will eventually crack and mobilize gas and other pollutants up the aging wellbore. Into water wells, trout streams, rivers and ponds - first the gas, then the lighter-than-water fluids right up the water in the hole. No cherry bomb necessary. http://www.scribd.com/doc/65704543/Casing-Leaks Even before the wells are abandoned http://www.scribd.com/doc/77582900/Orphaned-NY-Oiland-Gas-Wells 12. Walter Brooks - shale game roulette player "Gas Saved Our Ass" bumper sticker sums up Mr. Brooks's views on the more pressing regulatory and environmental issues of the day. Problem is, 90% of the residents of rural Pennsylvania will not benefit from playing shale gas roulette, as a recent Penn State study shows:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/100688155/Leases-Can-t-Vote Gas gassed Ms. DePues neighbors ass they sued when their wells were contaminated by her drilling. Chip Northrup Cooperstown http://www.scribd.com/northrup49 http://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2012/06/12/truthlandlies/ http://www.texassharon.com/2012/06/13/truthland/