This is priceless. And you can thank Phelim McAleer and his documentary Fracknation for exposing the lying windbag:
FREE BEACON – Environmentalist filmmaker Josh Fox grew frustrated during a recent public radio interview when asked about apparent falsehoods in his Oscar-nominated 2010 documentary Gasland.
Fox asked an interviewer with Aspen public radio station KAJX to go “off the record” so he could explain why he represented a gas extraction lease created by a group of Pennsylvania landowners as a $100,000 offer from a gas company to extract natural gas from his land.
The document presented in Gasland was a draft of a lease that Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance (NWPOA), a Pennsylvania landowners group, offered to gas companies exploring potential shale drilling operations in the area hoping to secure favorable terms for landowners, according to NWPOA members.
It was not, as Fox claimed in the film, an offer from one of those companies. The group also says Fox was never a member, as he told KAJX on Monday.
Fox used the document in his film to establish his personal stake in the fight over hydraulic fracturing, an innovative oil and gas extraction technique that he vilified in Gasland and a recently released sequel.
“One day I got a letter in the mail. It was from a natural gas company,” Fox said in the first Gasland. “They told me that my land was on top of a formation called the Marcellus Shale. I could lease my land to this company, and I could receive a signing bonus of $4,750 an acre. Having 19.5 acres, that was nearly $100,000.”
However, the lease shown in the film is actually a draft created by NWPOA, a group that describes itself as “an advocate for local landowners with oil and gas producers.”