Hollywood was all ready to capitalize on the fracking controversy—until it turned out that most of the sensational anti-fracking claims were based on nonexistent evidence or, worse, entirely faked. Never you mind: just rewrite the script to blame the bogus environmental claims on an oil-industry false flag operation. Larry Ribstein would have had a field day.
What the frack?
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