Give it a few weeks but soon enough you’ll be hearing from US based Irish anti environmentalist film makers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney on a radio/TV programme near you.

They are raising money to make a documentary titled >Frack Off which purports to challenge Gasland, the documentary about the damage caused by fracking made by Josh Fox which has been shown around Ireland.

This pair have form.  Anti global warming form.  They made Not Evil, But Wrong in response to Al Gore’s An Inconvienent Truth.

McElhinney may also be known to you as one of the people who has questioned inter country adoption.  She made a documentary with McAleer on the Tristan Dowse story.  McElhinney is also a darling of the Tea Party and regularly addresses conservative conferences including CPAC.  This is where I last came across her in 2010. She didn’t much like the movie Avatar either (neither did I but it was just because it was a rubbish movie not for it’s anti-mining properties.)

So maybe we’ll finally have other pro fracking people to knock Ed Walsh (Did you know he founded the University of Limerick?) off his podium.  Neither of these film makers have any scientific  or other qualifications but sure that won’t stop them getting on a programme near you in the interests of ‘balance’.

Update

McElhinney spoke about the Frack Off project during an interview at CPAC yesterday. She describes herself as a ‘recovering European’.