A Saudi Arabian prince explains why oil sheiks funded Matt Damon?s anti-fracking movie flop Promised Land.
A Saudi prince has warned that his oil-reliant nation is under threat because of fracking technology being developed elsewhere around the world.
Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said the Gulf Arab kingdom needed to reduce its reliance on crude oil and diversify its revenues.
His warning comes as rising shale energy supplies in the United States cut global demand for Saudi oil.
In an open letter to his country?s oil minister Ali al Naimi and other government heads, published on Sunday via his Twitter account, Prince Alwaleed said demand for oil from Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) member states was ?in continuous decline?.
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Prince Alwaleed, owner of international investment firm Kingdom Holding, is unusually outspoken for a top Saudi businessman.
But his warning reflects growing concern in private among many Saudis about the long-term impact of shale technology.
It is allowing the US and Canada to tap unconventional oil deposits which they could not reach just a few years ago.
Hydraulic fracking, which environmentalists oppose despite mounting evidence that it?s safe, is powering a US-Canadian energy boom.
Jennifer Lopez recently came under fire for performing concerts for brutal dictators in places like Turkmenistan.
What will Matt Damon?s fans make of him making what amounts to Middle Eastern oil propaganda?
The creators of Promised Land have gone to absurd lengths to vilify oil and gas companies, as Scribe?s Michael Sandoval noted Wednesday. Since recent events have demonstrated the relative environmental soundness of hydraulic fracturing ? a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale formations ? Promised Land?s script has been altered to make doom-saying environmentalists the tools of oil companies attempting to discredit legitimate ?fracking? concerns.
While left-leaning Hollywood often targets supposed environmental evildoers, Promised Land was also produced ?in association with? Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, according to the preview?s list of credits. A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which runs PR for Participant Media, the company that developed the film fund backing Promised Land, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE.
The question is, do these Hollywood types become propaganda tools out of ignorance, or just old-fashioned greed?
Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.
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