PL: Gas industry fires back on Josh Fox’s NY film
It didn’t take long for a gas-industry trade group to fire back against “Gasland” filmmaker Josh Fox’s latest short film, which targets Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the state weighs allowing high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas.
America’s Natural Gas Alliance is out with a statement blasting Fox’s latest effort, an 18-minute piece called “The Sky is Pink.”
Of course, there is a bit of irony here. As part of the film, Fox called out the group and its public-relations firm for their specific media strategy—one that, it could be argued, the alliance employed in its statement.
Here’s the statement from Tom Amontree, executive vice president of America’s Natural Gas Alliance:
